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Cora Emily Eskridge Foley

Birth
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Death
11 Nov 1984 (aged 85)
Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
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Two of Cora's three children are linked. The other son, John Robert Foley, died August 27, 1995 in Leavenworth County, Kansas, but I do not have burial information for him.

OBITUARY:
Mrs. C. Emily Foley, 85, former part owner of the W. T. Foley Electric Co., died Sunday (November 11, 1984) in a nursing home at 1500 W. Truman Road, Independence, where she lived.
Mrs. Foley had owned and operated the company in Kansas City, Kan., with her husband, W. T. Foley, who died in 1947. She was a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and had been a Sunday school teacher, choir director and soloist at its Grandview church. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, the Mozart Club, the Business and Professional Women's Club of Kansas City, Kan., and the Springdale (Ark.) Memorial Hospital Auxiliary.
She was born in Chicago and had lived in this area most of her life.
She leaves three sons, William Floyd Foley, Sunrise Beach, Mo., John Robert Foley, Kansas City, Kan., and Bill Foley, Blue Springs; a daughter, Mrs. Lillian Edith Whisler, Grain Valley; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Alice O'Connor, San Bernardino, Calif., and Mrs. Barbara Ruth Taylor, Porum, Okla.; nine grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Fulton-Nickel Chapel; burial in Highland Park Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the chapel.
The family suggests contributions to Grain Valley RLDS Church.
Kansas City Star & Times, Vol. 32. Obtained from Midwest Genealogy Center, 3440 South Lee's Summit Road, Independence, MO 64055 (dates of newspaper not provided).
Two of Cora's three children are linked. The other son, John Robert Foley, died August 27, 1995 in Leavenworth County, Kansas, but I do not have burial information for him.

OBITUARY:
Mrs. C. Emily Foley, 85, former part owner of the W. T. Foley Electric Co., died Sunday (November 11, 1984) in a nursing home at 1500 W. Truman Road, Independence, where she lived.
Mrs. Foley had owned and operated the company in Kansas City, Kan., with her husband, W. T. Foley, who died in 1947. She was a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and had been a Sunday school teacher, choir director and soloist at its Grandview church. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, the Mozart Club, the Business and Professional Women's Club of Kansas City, Kan., and the Springdale (Ark.) Memorial Hospital Auxiliary.
She was born in Chicago and had lived in this area most of her life.
She leaves three sons, William Floyd Foley, Sunrise Beach, Mo., John Robert Foley, Kansas City, Kan., and Bill Foley, Blue Springs; a daughter, Mrs. Lillian Edith Whisler, Grain Valley; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Alice O'Connor, San Bernardino, Calif., and Mrs. Barbara Ruth Taylor, Porum, Okla.; nine grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Fulton-Nickel Chapel; burial in Highland Park Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the chapel.
The family suggests contributions to Grain Valley RLDS Church.
Kansas City Star & Times, Vol. 32. Obtained from Midwest Genealogy Center, 3440 South Lee's Summit Road, Independence, MO 64055 (dates of newspaper not provided).


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  • Maintained by: Ginny
  • Originally Created by: J F-B
  • Added: Jun 28, 2013
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112999441/cora_emily-foley: accessed ), memorial page for Cora Emily Eskridge Foley (28 Oct 1899–11 Nov 1984), Find a Grave Memorial ID 112999441, citing Highland Park Cemetery, Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas, USA; Maintained by Ginny (contributor 48920067).