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| Bernice Griffith |
SOURCE: Hukill Bible for birth; death certificate. "Bright's disease," uremic poisoning. After her father died in June 1900, she lived in Michigan with her Aunt Jane. Thus, she might be on the census in Michigan for 1910. Her silver pattern was International Sterling's "Spring Glory." NOTE: 1900 Census: Indiana, Benton Co., Union Township, District 10; with father Henry (age 51), sister Anna (20), sister Alice (18), brother Arthur (16). Her father was listed as working as a "Day Laborer," and had been unemployed for five months. address at death: 1218 Kinyon Street; South Bend, Indiana. OBITUARY: South Bend Tribune; April 1, 1955: Mrs. Bernice G. Beard, 1218 Kinyon St., died at 12:15 a.m. today in Memorial Hospital after six months' illness. She was borni n Benton [County], Indiana, Jan. 13, 1891, and came here [South Bend, IN] in 1925 from Carroll County, Indiana. She was married in Canada in 1916 to G. Irvin Beard, who survives. She leaves also three sons, Miles G., of Mishawaka; Max I. and Bruce W., of South Bend; five grandchildren; tw sisters, Mrs Alice Hubbard, of Chicago, and Mrs. Linnie Taylor, of Fowler, Ind., and a brother, Arthur Griffith, of Glendive, Mont. Friends may call after 7 p.m. today in the Orvis Funeral Home until the funeral there at 2 p.m. Sunday. Rev. Kenneth L. Hemphill, of First Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park [Granger, Indiana]. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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