Goldie Poore, 72 Last Rites Were Held in Blockton
Funeral services for Goldie Ruby Poore, 72, of Phoenix, Az., formerly of Maloy, were held March 21 in Shum-Novinger Funeral Home in Bedford, Ia. with Rev. Carl Cummings officiating. Miss Poore died March 15, 1984 in St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix.
Interment was at Rose Hill Cemetery, Blockton, Ia.
Goldie Ruby Poore, daughter of Bennie B(issell) Poore and Anna Jane Thurman Poore, was born near Blockton, Iowa June 13, 1911. While still very small her parents homesteaded land near Murdo, South Dakota living there about three years. They then moved back to Blockton.
Her father in the next few years worked in Civil Service at various points in Iowa and then in Leavenworth, Kansas while she was in the seventh grade. While in Leavenworth she was baptized in the Christian Church. In her freshman year they moved to a farm near Maloy and she was graduated from high school there.
In October of 1941 she moved to Phoenix, Ariz. for her health and has maintained her home there since. She was employed as a bookkeeper at the Lightning Moving & Warehouse Co. until her retirement.
She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother, Harry, and an infant brother, Ralph.
Left to cherish her memory are three sisters and two brothers: Mrs. James (Esther) Henthorn and Mrs. Mabel Wilkinson of Topeka, Kansas; Mrs. James (Ethel) Martin of Indio, Calif.; Wayne of Montebello, Calif.; and Guy of Bedford; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law; nieces; nephews; other relatives and friends.
Her family and friends will remember her as a kind and considerate person and she will be sadly missed by all who knew and loved her.
[Note: The last name is spelled Poor on her headstone and that of her parents.]
Bedford Times-Press - Thursday March 29, 1984 p. 4
Funeral services for Goldie Ruby Poore, 72, of Phoenix, Az., formerly of Maloy, were held March 21 in Shum-Novinger Funeral Home in Bedford, Ia. with Rev. Carl Cummings officiating. Miss Poore died March 15, 1984 in St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix.
Interment was at Rose Hill Cemetery, Blockton, Ia.
Goldie Ruby Poore, daughter of Bennie B(issell) Poore and Anna Jane Thurman Poore, was born near Blockton, Iowa June 13, 1911. While still very small her parents homesteaded land near Murdo, South Dakota living there about three years. They then moved back to Blockton.
Her father in the next few years worked in Civil Service at various points in Iowa and then in Leavenworth, Kansas while she was in the seventh grade. While in Leavenworth she was baptized in the Christian Church. In her freshman year they moved to a farm near Maloy and she was graduated from high school there.
In October of 1941 she moved to Phoenix, Ariz. for her health and has maintained her home there since. She was employed as a bookkeeper at the Lightning Moving & Warehouse Co. until her retirement.
She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother, Harry, and an infant brother, Ralph.
Left to cherish her memory are three sisters and two brothers: Mrs. James (Esther) Henthorn and Mrs. Mabel Wilkinson of Topeka, Kansas; Mrs. James (Ethel) Martin of Indio, Calif.; Wayne of Montebello, Calif.; and Guy of Bedford; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law; nieces; nephews; other relatives and friends.
Her family and friends will remember her as a kind and considerate person and she will be sadly missed by all who knew and loved her.
[Note: The last name is spelled Poor on her headstone and that of her parents.]
Bedford Times-Press - Thursday March 29, 1984 p. 4
Goldie Poore, 72 Last Rites Were Held in Blockton
Funeral services for Goldie Ruby Poore, 72, of Phoenix, Az., formerly of Maloy, were held March 21 in Shum-Novinger Funeral Home in Bedford, Ia. with Rev. Carl Cummings officiating. Miss Poore died March 15, 1984 in St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix.
Interment was at Rose Hill Cemetery, Blockton, Ia.
Goldie Ruby Poore, daughter of Bennie B(issell) Poore and Anna Jane Thurman Poore, was born near Blockton, Iowa June 13, 1911. While still very small her parents homesteaded land near Murdo, South Dakota living there about three years. They then moved back to Blockton.
Her father in the next few years worked in Civil Service at various points in Iowa and then in Leavenworth, Kansas while she was in the seventh grade. While in Leavenworth she was baptized in the Christian Church. In her freshman year they moved to a farm near Maloy and she was graduated from high school there.
In October of 1941 she moved to Phoenix, Ariz. for her health and has maintained her home there since. She was employed as a bookkeeper at the Lightning Moving & Warehouse Co. until her retirement.
She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother, Harry, and an infant brother, Ralph.
Left to cherish her memory are three sisters and two brothers: Mrs. James (Esther) Henthorn and Mrs. Mabel Wilkinson of Topeka, Kansas; Mrs. James (Ethel) Martin of Indio, Calif.; Wayne of Montebello, Calif.; and Guy of Bedford; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law; nieces; nephews; other relatives and friends.
Her family and friends will remember her as a kind and considerate person and she will be sadly missed by all who knew and loved her.
[Note: The last name is spelled Poor on her headstone and that of her parents.]
Bedford Times-Press - Thursday March 29, 1984 p. 4
Funeral services for Goldie Ruby Poore, 72, of Phoenix, Az., formerly of Maloy, were held March 21 in Shum-Novinger Funeral Home in Bedford, Ia. with Rev. Carl Cummings officiating. Miss Poore died March 15, 1984 in St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix.
Interment was at Rose Hill Cemetery, Blockton, Ia.
Goldie Ruby Poore, daughter of Bennie B(issell) Poore and Anna Jane Thurman Poore, was born near Blockton, Iowa June 13, 1911. While still very small her parents homesteaded land near Murdo, South Dakota living there about three years. They then moved back to Blockton.
Her father in the next few years worked in Civil Service at various points in Iowa and then in Leavenworth, Kansas while she was in the seventh grade. While in Leavenworth she was baptized in the Christian Church. In her freshman year they moved to a farm near Maloy and she was graduated from high school there.
In October of 1941 she moved to Phoenix, Ariz. for her health and has maintained her home there since. She was employed as a bookkeeper at the Lightning Moving & Warehouse Co. until her retirement.
She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother, Harry, and an infant brother, Ralph.
Left to cherish her memory are three sisters and two brothers: Mrs. James (Esther) Henthorn and Mrs. Mabel Wilkinson of Topeka, Kansas; Mrs. James (Ethel) Martin of Indio, Calif.; Wayne of Montebello, Calif.; and Guy of Bedford; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law; nieces; nephews; other relatives and friends.
Her family and friends will remember her as a kind and considerate person and she will be sadly missed by all who knew and loved her.
[Note: The last name is spelled Poor on her headstone and that of her parents.]
Bedford Times-Press - Thursday March 29, 1984 p. 4
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