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From: "Jim Lowary" <>
Subject: [MOMONROE] LEGRAND/TURPIN obit from 1948
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:13:59 +0000


Below is an obit for a Mrs. Ralph (LEGRAND) TURPIN that I was given in
with some of my Grandmother's and step-Grandfather's things [Cora Belle
(ALLISON/ARDREY/COURTNEY/SMITH) and Robert Clark SMITH]. They were
married in Randolph Co., in 1940, but Robert was born in Holiday and his
first wife was Mary E. YOHE. He was also a coal miner and worked for N.
L. Brownfield in 1938. Not sure how they were related to this person,
but want to share this info in hopes it helps someone and might find some
ties, that I didn't know existed.

Thanks!
-- Jim Lowary


Madison Mother and Sixth Child Die Early Today

Mrs. Ralph Turpin, 38, of Madison died about 5:40 o'clock this morning
in McCormick hospital, where she gave birth at 3:30 o'clock this morning
to a son, her sixth child. The baby died at 7:20 o'clock this morning.

The former Miss Bertha Legrand, daughter of Mr and Mrs John Legrand of
Madison, Mrs Turpin was reared from the age of 12, some time after her
mother's death, by Mr and Mrs Robert Glasscock of Holliday. She was
graduated from the Holliday High School and also form the School of
Nursing at Levering Hospital in Hannibal. She completed her trainin
there in January of 1934, and for 18 months was a nurse in Woodland
Hospital in Moberly. She joined the Christian Church while a child. Her
38th birthday woul have occured December 1.

Beside her husband, to whom she was married August 8, 1938 she is
survived by the five young children, Walter, 8, Elisie, 7, Patricia, 4,
Helen, 3, and Billy, 1; two sisters Mrs. Glen Ferguson, Peoria, Ill., and
Mrs. W.C. Girten, Monroe City; a half brother Cecil Legrand, and three
half-sisters, Mrs. Kenneth Campbell and Mrs Wilbur Lake, Madison and Mrs.
Bessie Legrand, Moberly.

The body is in the Thompson Funeral Home in Madison but the funeral
arrangements have to been completed. Services are planned for 2 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon.

(another copy lists the date the obit ran in paper as: 18 Nov, 1948 and
that the Rev. G. E. Neely held the sevices; she was buried in the Sunset
Hill Cemeery.)




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