The Oil City Derrick - Thursday morning, March 13, 1941
Mrs. Muriel Loretta Courson Bish, 29, died at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday, at her home near Wentling's Corners, Clarion County, following an extended illness. She was born in Juniata, Blair County, on June 21, 1911, the daughter of Gilbert and Cora Erb Courson. On September 14, 1938, she married Teddy Bish, at Monroe. She was a member of St. Paul's Reformed Church. Surviving are her husband, and a daughter, Syvilla Smith, at home; her father, G. M. Courson, of Wilkinsburg; two half-sisters, Mrs. H. G. Mahle, of Miola, and Mrs. Emma Van Horn, of Mohawk, New York; a brother, Frank W. Courson, of Hokum, Washington; and a half-brother, Orville G. Courson, of Wilkinsburg. Friends may call at Boyer Funeral Home, Knox, until 2:30 p.m. Saturday, when funeral services will be held at St. Paul's Reformed Church with Rev. F. F. Fischer, officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery.
Death certificate gives age as 29 years, 8 months and 21 days. Husband was informant. Buried on March 15, 1941.
Shares the headstone with her father.
After the death of her mother, Muriel Courson Smith Bish, in 1941, Syvilla Smith was raised by Clyde & Mildred Alt Garris.
The Oil City Derrick - Thursday, December 17, 1953
Knox - Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Garris of Knox, announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their foster daughter, Miss Syvilla Smith, to Conrad H. Fry, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Fry, Norristown. The wedding ceremony will be performed in St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church, Knox, on January 29. Miss Smith is a graduate of Indiana State Teachers College, Indiana, and is presently employed as a Vocational Home Economics teacher in Cochranton. The prospective bridegroom attended Spartan School of Aeronautics, Tulsa, Oklahoma, after serving three years in the U.S. Air Force. He is presently employed as a pilot for Kirsch Manufacturing Company, Sturgis, Michigan.
Mrs. Muriel Loretta Courson Bish, 29, died at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday, at her home near Wentling's Corners, Clarion County, following an extended illness. She was born in Juniata, Blair County, on June 21, 1911, the daughter of Gilbert and Cora Erb Courson. On September 14, 1938, she married Teddy Bish, at Monroe. She was a member of St. Paul's Reformed Church. Surviving are her husband, and a daughter, Syvilla Smith, at home; her father, G. M. Courson, of Wilkinsburg; two half-sisters, Mrs. H. G. Mahle, of Miola, and Mrs. Emma Van Horn, of Mohawk, New York; a brother, Frank W. Courson, of Hokum, Washington; and a half-brother, Orville G. Courson, of Wilkinsburg. Friends may call at Boyer Funeral Home, Knox, until 2:30 p.m. Saturday, when funeral services will be held at St. Paul's Reformed Church with Rev. F. F. Fischer, officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery.
Death certificate gives age as 29 years, 8 months and 21 days. Husband was informant. Buried on March 15, 1941.
Shares the headstone with her father.
After the death of her mother, Muriel Courson Smith Bish, in 1941, Syvilla Smith was raised by Clyde & Mildred Alt Garris.
The Oil City Derrick - Thursday, December 17, 1953
Knox - Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Garris of Knox, announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their foster daughter, Miss Syvilla Smith, to Conrad H. Fry, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Fry, Norristown. The wedding ceremony will be performed in St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church, Knox, on January 29. Miss Smith is a graduate of Indiana State Teachers College, Indiana, and is presently employed as a Vocational Home Economics teacher in Cochranton. The prospective bridegroom attended Spartan School of Aeronautics, Tulsa, Oklahoma, after serving three years in the U.S. Air Force. He is presently employed as a pilot for Kirsch Manufacturing Company, Sturgis, Michigan.
The Oil City Derrick - Thursday morning, March 13, 1941
Mrs. Muriel Loretta Courson Bish, 29, died at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday, at her home near Wentling's Corners, Clarion County, following an extended illness. She was born in Juniata, Blair County, on June 21, 1911, the daughter of Gilbert and Cora Erb Courson. On September 14, 1938, she married Teddy Bish, at Monroe. She was a member of St. Paul's Reformed Church. Surviving are her husband, and a daughter, Syvilla Smith, at home; her father, G. M. Courson, of Wilkinsburg; two half-sisters, Mrs. H. G. Mahle, of Miola, and Mrs. Emma Van Horn, of Mohawk, New York; a brother, Frank W. Courson, of Hokum, Washington; and a half-brother, Orville G. Courson, of Wilkinsburg. Friends may call at Boyer Funeral Home, Knox, until 2:30 p.m. Saturday, when funeral services will be held at St. Paul's Reformed Church with Rev. F. F. Fischer, officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery.
Death certificate gives age as 29 years, 8 months and 21 days. Husband was informant. Buried on March 15, 1941.
Shares the headstone with her father.
After the death of her mother, Muriel Courson Smith Bish, in 1941, Syvilla Smith was raised by Clyde & Mildred Alt Garris.
The Oil City Derrick - Thursday, December 17, 1953
Knox - Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Garris of Knox, announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their foster daughter, Miss Syvilla Smith, to Conrad H. Fry, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Fry, Norristown. The wedding ceremony will be performed in St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church, Knox, on January 29. Miss Smith is a graduate of Indiana State Teachers College, Indiana, and is presently employed as a Vocational Home Economics teacher in Cochranton. The prospective bridegroom attended Spartan School of Aeronautics, Tulsa, Oklahoma, after serving three years in the U.S. Air Force. He is presently employed as a pilot for Kirsch Manufacturing Company, Sturgis, Michigan.
Mrs. Muriel Loretta Courson Bish, 29, died at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday, at her home near Wentling's Corners, Clarion County, following an extended illness. She was born in Juniata, Blair County, on June 21, 1911, the daughter of Gilbert and Cora Erb Courson. On September 14, 1938, she married Teddy Bish, at Monroe. She was a member of St. Paul's Reformed Church. Surviving are her husband, and a daughter, Syvilla Smith, at home; her father, G. M. Courson, of Wilkinsburg; two half-sisters, Mrs. H. G. Mahle, of Miola, and Mrs. Emma Van Horn, of Mohawk, New York; a brother, Frank W. Courson, of Hokum, Washington; and a half-brother, Orville G. Courson, of Wilkinsburg. Friends may call at Boyer Funeral Home, Knox, until 2:30 p.m. Saturday, when funeral services will be held at St. Paul's Reformed Church with Rev. F. F. Fischer, officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery.
Death certificate gives age as 29 years, 8 months and 21 days. Husband was informant. Buried on March 15, 1941.
Shares the headstone with her father.
After the death of her mother, Muriel Courson Smith Bish, in 1941, Syvilla Smith was raised by Clyde & Mildred Alt Garris.
The Oil City Derrick - Thursday, December 17, 1953
Knox - Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Garris of Knox, announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their foster daughter, Miss Syvilla Smith, to Conrad H. Fry, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Fry, Norristown. The wedding ceremony will be performed in St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church, Knox, on January 29. Miss Smith is a graduate of Indiana State Teachers College, Indiana, and is presently employed as a Vocational Home Economics teacher in Cochranton. The prospective bridegroom attended Spartan School of Aeronautics, Tulsa, Oklahoma, after serving three years in the U.S. Air Force. He is presently employed as a pilot for Kirsch Manufacturing Company, Sturgis, Michigan.
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