Nettie's Obituary

This is the newspaper obituary of my great grandmother, Nettie Dorothy Graham Spohr:

"Nettie Spohr

Mrs. Nettie (Graham) Spohr, 72, of 1621 Fourth St., Madison, a lifelong resident of the Quad-Cities, died Tuesday morning May 13 at St. Joseph Hospital, Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. Spohr was visiting with her son, Carl Spohr Jr. and his family in Prairie Village, Kan., and was stricken with an apparent heart attack. She was taken by ambulance to the hospital where she died a short time later.
She was employed at Glik’s Department Store for 42 years and was still working on a part time basis as a sales clerk.
Mrs. Spohr attended the First United Presbyterian Church in Granite City.

Her husband, Carl Spohr, died June 20, 1979 and she also was preceded in death by a sister Susan Osborne.
Other survivors include three brothers John and Clifford Graham both of Granite City and Kenneth Graham of Florrisant, Mo.; four sisters, Mrs. Florence Spohr and Mrs. Fred (Pearl) Bright, both of Madison, Mrs. Cora Davis, Arleta, Calif., and Mrs. Earl (Bernice) Williams, ____, Colo.; four grandchildren ____ grandchild.
____ call after 4 p.m. today at ____ Home, 501 Madison ____ where funeral services ____ 1 p.m. Friday, May 16. ____ in St. John Cemetery, ____.”

Nettie Dorothy Graham Spohr’s newspaper obituary is in the possession of Beverly Monk Spohr of Lee’s Summit, Missouri as of 2005. The newspaper clipping is from an unknown newspaper and has a section at the bottom of the article torn off – hence all the blanks at the end of the article.

(Christmas Albums note 1)

(The "Christmas Albums" post includes information about many different family surnames. I am limited to creating 20 'labels' for each post, and because there were more than 20 different surnames in that post, I need to create these notes in order to index every surname. So, if you have clicked on a surname in the index and it lead you to this note, please see my previous "Christmas Albums" post dated 30 December 2009.)

Surnames included in the "Christmas Albums" post include: Chidester, Conde, Monk, Spohr, Moore, Conners, Dick, Wilson, Monk, Dobbins, Graham, Ott, Rees, Taylor, Hunt, Moss, Smith, Heath, Rasmussen, Erickson, Allen, Strunz, Villardsen Johannesen, Iverson, Hyatt, Paramore, Levi, Jolley, Vincent, Vance, Collins, Jefferis, Davis, Portell, Heath, Holden, Burgess, Dodge, Fritz, Hamburg, Dunn, Dowling, Clarkson, Fleming, Petersen, and Breinl.

Online Archive of Digitized Genealogical Books

So, I am still on the e-mail list for the family history department at BYU and I get e-mails from them every once in a while, usually job offers for genealogy majors. But today I got an e-mail telling about the progress that has been made in digitizing the genealogy books in the collection from the Family History Library in Salt Lake, along with several other genealogical collections. The link to the database is, www.lib.byu.edu/fhc, if you’re interested in taking a look. I haven’t had a chance yet to see if I could find any new info about my ancestors in this archive, but I did type my name into the “author” field real quick, just to see if anything would turn up. It was fun to see the paper that I wrote about my great grandmother, Nettie Dorothy Graham Spohr, and her ancestors while I was studying genealogy at BYU – I had given a copy of my final paper to the FHL in Salt Lake when I finished it, so I knew they had it in their library, but it was fun to see that it has been totally digitized – photos, genealogical charts, maps, and all, so that it can be easily shared with any interested relatives. Kind of fun. (If you are one of my relatives and are interested in looking at that paper on Nettie, here is the link).