Born in Iowa, she moves with her family to Twin Brooks, SD about 1905. In 1910, at age 18, she marries a traveling photographer, Arthur Coyle. That marriage is not long lived. She marries next Percy "Pell" Beckwith in 1915 in Columbus, Mississippi. This marriage lasts at least until 1920, but by 1926, Bernice has married for a third time, to Charles Cobb Coleman. Bernice was a working woman most of her life and was a traveling saleswoman, driving about selling her wares throughout the south and west. The last several decades of her life were lived in Kansas City, Kansas. Bernice has no children from any of her marriages. She outlives her third husband C.C. Coleman by almost 2 decades, dying in 1974 at age 81.
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Mrs. Bernice Coleman
Mrs. Bernice Hubbard Coleman, 81, of 3030 Powell, Kansas City, Kansas, died Thursday at the home. She was born in Ruthven, Iowa, and had lived in the Kansas City area since 1919. She was an advertising and public relations councilor nearly 25 years. She was a member of the Ancient Toltec Rite, the Ladies Oriental Shrine, Fern Chapter, the Order of the True Kindred, the League of the Scottish Rite Women, Ladies Auxiliary Unit No. 90, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, the Union Pacific Oldtimer's Club, the Ladies Auxiliary, Order of the Railway Conductors, the American Association of Retired Persons and the Woman's Society of Christian Service. She was a member of the Central Avenue United Methodist Church. She leaves three brothers, Richard Hubbard, Merrill, Ore., Norman S. Hubbard, Minneapolis, and Mark Hubbard, Phoenix; three sisters, Mrs. Nell Anderson, Minneapolis, Mrs. Anstis Anderson, Milaca, Minn., and Mrs. Mary Ames, Marine on the St. Croix, Minn. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the Fulton-Nickel Chapel; burial in Chapel Hill Cemetery; friends may call after 3 p.m. Sunday at the chapel.
(Obit in The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO) Sunday, May 12, 1974, page 36, col. 2)
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Mrs. Bernice Coleman
Mrs. Bernice Hubbard Coleman, 81, of 3030 Powell, Kansas City, Kansas, died Thursday at the home. She was born in Ruthven, Iowa, and had lived in the Kansas City area since 1919. She was an advertising and public relations councilor nearly 25 years. She was a member of the Ancient Toltec Rite, the Ladies Oriental Shrine, Fern Chapter, the Order of the True Kindred, the League of the Scottish Rite Women, Ladies Auxiliary Unit No. 90, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, the Union Pacific Oldtimer's Club, the Ladies Auxiliary, Order of the Railway Conductors, the American Association of Retired Persons and the Woman's Society of Christian Service. She was a member of the Central Avenue United Methodist Church. She leaves three brothers, Richard Hubbard, Merrill, Ore., Norman S. Hubbard, Minneapolis, and Mark Hubbard, Phoenix; three sisters, Mrs. Nell Anderson, Minneapolis, Mrs. Anstis Anderson, Milaca, Minn., and Mrs. Mary Ames, Marine on the St. Croix, Minn. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the Fulton-Nickel Chapel; burial in Chapel Hill Cemetery; friends may call after 3 p.m. Sunday at the chapel.
(Obit in The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO) Sunday, May 12, 1974, page 36, col. 2)
Born in Iowa, she moves with her family to Twin Brooks, SD about 1905. In 1910, at age 18, she marries a traveling photographer, Arthur Coyle. That marriage is not long lived. She marries next Percy "Pell" Beckwith in 1915 in Columbus, Mississippi. This marriage lasts at least until 1920, but by 1926, Bernice has married for a third time, to Charles Cobb Coleman. Bernice was a working woman most of her life and was a traveling saleswoman, driving about selling her wares throughout the south and west. The last several decades of her life were lived in Kansas City, Kansas. Bernice has no children from any of her marriages. She outlives her third husband C.C. Coleman by almost 2 decades, dying in 1974 at age 81.
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Mrs. Bernice Coleman
Mrs. Bernice Hubbard Coleman, 81, of 3030 Powell, Kansas City, Kansas, died Thursday at the home. She was born in Ruthven, Iowa, and had lived in the Kansas City area since 1919. She was an advertising and public relations councilor nearly 25 years. She was a member of the Ancient Toltec Rite, the Ladies Oriental Shrine, Fern Chapter, the Order of the True Kindred, the League of the Scottish Rite Women, Ladies Auxiliary Unit No. 90, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, the Union Pacific Oldtimer's Club, the Ladies Auxiliary, Order of the Railway Conductors, the American Association of Retired Persons and the Woman's Society of Christian Service. She was a member of the Central Avenue United Methodist Church. She leaves three brothers, Richard Hubbard, Merrill, Ore., Norman S. Hubbard, Minneapolis, and Mark Hubbard, Phoenix; three sisters, Mrs. Nell Anderson, Minneapolis, Mrs. Anstis Anderson, Milaca, Minn., and Mrs. Mary Ames, Marine on the St. Croix, Minn. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the Fulton-Nickel Chapel; burial in Chapel Hill Cemetery; friends may call after 3 p.m. Sunday at the chapel.
(Obit in The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO) Sunday, May 12, 1974, page 36, col. 2)
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Mrs. Bernice Coleman
Mrs. Bernice Hubbard Coleman, 81, of 3030 Powell, Kansas City, Kansas, died Thursday at the home. She was born in Ruthven, Iowa, and had lived in the Kansas City area since 1919. She was an advertising and public relations councilor nearly 25 years. She was a member of the Ancient Toltec Rite, the Ladies Oriental Shrine, Fern Chapter, the Order of the True Kindred, the League of the Scottish Rite Women, Ladies Auxiliary Unit No. 90, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, the Union Pacific Oldtimer's Club, the Ladies Auxiliary, Order of the Railway Conductors, the American Association of Retired Persons and the Woman's Society of Christian Service. She was a member of the Central Avenue United Methodist Church. She leaves three brothers, Richard Hubbard, Merrill, Ore., Norman S. Hubbard, Minneapolis, and Mark Hubbard, Phoenix; three sisters, Mrs. Nell Anderson, Minneapolis, Mrs. Anstis Anderson, Milaca, Minn., and Mrs. Mary Ames, Marine on the St. Croix, Minn. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the Fulton-Nickel Chapel; burial in Chapel Hill Cemetery; friends may call after 3 p.m. Sunday at the chapel.
(Obit in The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO) Sunday, May 12, 1974, page 36, col. 2)
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