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Shirley Mae Blankenship

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Shirley Mae Blankenship

Birth
Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA
Death
3 Jul 1939 (aged 17)
Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block 4
Memorial ID
View Source
MO d/c 25020

Accidents
Shirley Mae Blankenship, seventeen years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Loid Blankenship, 414 South Twenty-second street, died Monday night in a local hospital of injuries suffered in a crash between two trucks at the belt highway and Mitchell avenue Sunday night. Four other young persons were injured. Raymond McMillen, eighteen, of Maysville, Mo., driver of one of the trucks, was also injured and taken to the hospital. A warrant charging him with reckless driving was issued. He was arraigned Thursday and will be tried in justice court next Thursday.
St. Joseph News-Press/Gazette, St. Joseph, Missouri, 09 Jul 1939, Page 6, Column 6

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1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Shirley Blankenship
Birth Year: abt 1923
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: Missouri
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Home in 1930: Washington, Buchanan, Missouri
Street address: Addison Addition
Father's Birthplace: Kansas
Mother's Birthplace: Missouri
Household Members: Name Age
Lloyd S Blankenship 30
Blanch Blankenship 29
Charles M Hurdle 68
Emma A Hurdle 62
Shirley Blankenship 7
MO d/c 25020

Accidents
Shirley Mae Blankenship, seventeen years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Loid Blankenship, 414 South Twenty-second street, died Monday night in a local hospital of injuries suffered in a crash between two trucks at the belt highway and Mitchell avenue Sunday night. Four other young persons were injured. Raymond McMillen, eighteen, of Maysville, Mo., driver of one of the trucks, was also injured and taken to the hospital. A warrant charging him with reckless driving was issued. He was arraigned Thursday and will be tried in justice court next Thursday.
St. Joseph News-Press/Gazette, St. Joseph, Missouri, 09 Jul 1939, Page 6, Column 6

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1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Shirley Blankenship
Birth Year: abt 1923
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: Missouri
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Home in 1930: Washington, Buchanan, Missouri
Street address: Addison Addition
Father's Birthplace: Kansas
Mother's Birthplace: Missouri
Household Members: Name Age
Lloyd S Blankenship 30
Blanch Blankenship 29
Charles M Hurdle 68
Emma A Hurdle 62
Shirley Blankenship 7


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