Elmira Turbett

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Transcribed by Linda T.

 

Rites Tomorrow In Hanna City For Mrs. Turbett

Funeral services for Mrs. Elmira Turbett, 74 years old, a resident of Peoria county more than half a century, will be conducted at the Hanna City Presbyterian church.

The Rev. I. S. Caldwell will officiate and burial will be in Union Cemetery, Timber township. Mrs. Turbett , widow of Thomas A Turbett, died at 2 o'clock Saturday morning at Methodist hospital. Friends may call at the Wilton mortuary chapel this afternoon and tonight.

Mrs. Turbett was the daughter of Peter and Catherine Gumby Karstetter and was born in Port Royal, Pa., September 8, 1864. She was married July 12, 1894, in Peoria to Thomas A. Turbett who lived in Logan township and were engaged in farming there 45 years. In 1919 they moved to Peoria where they made their home until Mr. Turbett's death. Since that time Mrs. Turbett resided with her son, Beatty Turbett of Hanna City, and her brother, George Karstetter of Glasford, Ill. She was a member of the Hanna City Presbyterian church.

Surviving are the son, Beatty: two grandchildren, Kenneth and Elva Mae Turbett; one sister, Mrs. Maggie Beecher, Hanna City, and the brother George Karstetter, Glasford.

 


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