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Grace <I>Heeb</I> Turpen

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Grace Heeb Turpen

Birth
Manhattan, Gallatin County, Montana, USA
Death
20 Dec 1953 (aged 68)
Bozeman, Gallatin County, Montana, USA
Burial
Manhattan, Gallatin County, Montana, USA Add to Map
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Services will be today at 2 p.m., at Dahl Memorial chapel for Mrs. Grace Turpen of Manhattan who died at the Bozeman Deaconess hospital Sunday after an illness of two weeks.

Born to Joan and Henry Heeb, November 23, 1885 in Manhattan, Mrs. Turpen attended Manhattan grade school and was graduated from Gallatin High School before entering business college in Seattle. She is a member of the Christian Church. In 1913, she married Jack Turpen in Terre Haute, Indiana.

The couple lived in Terre Haute, where they operated a grocery store until 1924 when they moved to Gallatin Gateway and managed the Turpen Grocery store there for ten years. In 1935, they retired to a ranch in Manhattan.

Turpen died in 1936 and Mrs. Turpen moved to Bozeman in 1947 before going back to Manhattan last fall.

She is survived by a sister, Marie Oliver, in Berkeley, California; one brother, Buell Heeb of Manhattan; two nephews, Ernest and Lauren Heeb of Bozeman; four nieces in California, two in Berkeley and two in Los Angeles.

Interment will be in Meadowview Cemetery at Manhattan.

Printed in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle ~ Tuesday, December 22, 1953.
Services will be today at 2 p.m., at Dahl Memorial chapel for Mrs. Grace Turpen of Manhattan who died at the Bozeman Deaconess hospital Sunday after an illness of two weeks.

Born to Joan and Henry Heeb, November 23, 1885 in Manhattan, Mrs. Turpen attended Manhattan grade school and was graduated from Gallatin High School before entering business college in Seattle. She is a member of the Christian Church. In 1913, she married Jack Turpen in Terre Haute, Indiana.

The couple lived in Terre Haute, where they operated a grocery store until 1924 when they moved to Gallatin Gateway and managed the Turpen Grocery store there for ten years. In 1935, they retired to a ranch in Manhattan.

Turpen died in 1936 and Mrs. Turpen moved to Bozeman in 1947 before going back to Manhattan last fall.

She is survived by a sister, Marie Oliver, in Berkeley, California; one brother, Buell Heeb of Manhattan; two nephews, Ernest and Lauren Heeb of Bozeman; four nieces in California, two in Berkeley and two in Los Angeles.

Interment will be in Meadowview Cemetery at Manhattan.

Printed in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle ~ Tuesday, December 22, 1953.


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  • Maintained by: Joanne
  • Originally Created by: Jim Harrison
  • Added: May 24, 2011
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70315026/grace-turpen: accessed ), memorial page for Grace Heeb Turpen (23 Nov 1885–20 Dec 1953), Find a Grave Memorial ID 70315026, citing Meadowview Cemetery, Manhattan, Gallatin County, Montana, USA; Maintained by Joanne (contributor 46957268).