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Treasured Seasons
For everything there is
an appointed season.
And a time for everything
under heaven -
A time for sharing,
a time for caring.
A time for loving,
a time for parting.
You have made everything
beautiful in its time
for everything You do
remains forever
This is my [step] grandmother Triplett's death certificate. Her name was Hildegarde Olga Teuber Starr Triplett.
The place where Grandma died was at Fresno Community Hospital, located at Fresno & R street, which was within the the city limits of Fresno, Fresno County. She lived in Fresno County for 30 years, and in California for 51 years.
Her residence was at 3549 Illinois, Fresno, Fresno, California. Her home was inside the Fresno City limits. All of the above information was given by Mrs. Dorothy Starr, [her daughter-in-law], who lived at 604 W. Michigan, Fresno California.
The Physician's (or Coroner's Certification) states that the MD took care of Grandma from 8 September 1969 to 5 July 1971. He last saw her alive on 3 July 1971. The MD's name was Joseph C. Woo. He signed the certificate on 6 July 1971. His Medical License was G1578.
The embalmer was R. Stephen Lawrence. The Registrar's name I can't read. She was buried on 8 July 1971, at Belmont Memorial Park, through the Lisle Funeral home.
Her cause of Death was Congestive heart Failure lasted for 1 week. An additional diagnosis is Arterio Scleratic Heart Disease which was present for a year. The Code for CHF is/was 412.3.
There was no operation or biopsy, nor autopsy.
STATE REGISRAR number was 108-26.
CERTIFICATION NUMBER 72-00201
STATE OF CALIFORNIA - COUNTY OF FRESNO
THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE COPY OF THIS
DOCUMENT, FILED AND/OR RECORDED IN THIS OFFICE.ISSUED BY AUTHORITY OF SECTION 10575 OF CALIFORNIA HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
PAYMENT OF $2.00 RECEIVED
NOT A CERTIFIED (LEGAL) COPY WITHOUT A RAISED SEAL
AND THE DEPUTY'S SIGNATURE IN RED INK
[I can't read this signature] LOCAL REGISTRAR
DATED C. RODRIQUEZ Deputy Registrar
JUL 12 1971
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Lisle
FUNERAL HOME
Fresno, California 93721
A
RECORD OF
MEMORIAM
FOR FRIENDS
AND
RELATIVES
HILDEGARDE OLGA TRIPLETT
February 6, 1894 - July 5 1971
Thursday, July 8, 1971 at 10:30 A.M.
Graveside Services
Belmont Memorial Park
Officiate
Mr. Merrill Hardison
Internment Belmont Memorial Park
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On the right are: Ione (Aunt Billie) Gertrude Leonard Martin, Winnie Gladys Carpenter Leonard (my great grandmother) and Winnifred Olive Leonard (Aunt Fred). Aunt Fred and Aunt Billie were my grandmother's, Lenoir Inez Leonard's, sisters.
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It is not stated in the papers in this pension claim the William Triplett, the soldier, was married.
3549 Illinois Avenue
This is Grandma Hildegarde Triplett's death record.
I do not remember when I received this, but it could have been in the mid to late 1980's.
She and my Grandfather Shirley Greene Triplett were married in July 1950. Grandpa's 2nd wife was my grandmother, Lenoir Inez Leonard who died 31 December 1949.
Grandpa and Grandma Hildegarde worked together at Electric Lab. Grandma worked in the office and Grandpa worked in the garage.
After their marriage, they settled down in the Illinois Street house. At that point Mom decided to move into her own apartment.
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This obituary reads: TRIPLETT,HILDEGARDE OLGA - in Fresno, July 5, age 77. Born in South Dakota, 30 years in Fresno. A homemaker and wife of S. G. Triplett of Fresno; mother of Paul Starr of Fresno; step-mother of Mrs. Myron Winch of Fresno; sister of Mrs. Harry L. Andrews Sr. of Los Gatos and Mrs. Lewis Mittness of Jacksonville, Wis. One grandchild [me] survives.
Graveside services held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in Belmont Memorial Park. The Lisle Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
TRIPLETT, in Fresno, July 5, 1971 Hildegarde Olga Triplett. Wife of S.G. Triplett. Mother of Paul Starr. Stepmother of Mrs. Myron Winch. Sister of Mrs. Harry L. Andrews Sr., and Mrs. Lewis Mittness. Aunt of Mrs. Fred Heining [Henning] and Harry L. Andrews. Also survived by one granddaughter, Myra Lee Winch. Graveside Services, Thursday, July 8 1971 at 10:30 A.M. at Belmont Memorial Park. LISLE FUNERAL HOME directing.
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Grandma loved me more than life itself. She loved me and I love[d] her.
Some of the things I remember:
She loved to work in the yard. She and Grandpa had a rose garden in the backyard next to the disconnected garage.
She loved being in the mountains at our cabin, except the one day she was planting Iris bulbs, and a gopher popped out of a hole and looked at her. She came running back to the cabin screaming about the gopher.
She used a mangle iron to iron the pillow cases and sheets for their bed.
When she died, Mom and I would go over to the house and help Grandpa with changing the sheets and just check to make sure everything looked fairly well kept. He was still working at this point.
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One day Mom and I came into the house and washed/changed the bed linens. After the wash and drying were finished, we folded everything and opened the cupboard where the linens were kept.
We felt like we had violated some obvious rule of law - we hadn't ironed the sheets and pillowcases. It was definately obvious what we hadn't done!
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(Spread out the typing) Mother didn't drive so quite often it was my duty -- not reluctantly -- to come to the place, pick up Mother and three or four of the girls ( all thin back then so the '28 Packard held 'em). Took Mother home first -- naturally --, then the girls. But not necessarily in order of closest-to-home.
I seemed to get lost a little bit in dropping them off. The result being a certain girl would be take home last. Before she departed I'd ask for details of the meeting and anything else for chit-chat. And this is Methodist Gospel truth; from about '22 to '35 (when she left Rochester) Mary was one of the "last home" and in '36 was succeeded by Kit, just arrived from South Dakota. I figured all of this was Home Missionary research.
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We arrived here in Mid-May and pitched into flower and vegetable gardening, sprucing up the place here and there and renewed church and contacts with close friends. Oh, marked my 82nd year in June. As you may recall, daughter Marcia and husband Don MacKinnon, live just nine miles away in Port Dover right on Lake Erie. We're six miles inland.
Son Donn and wife Nancy came down from Ottawa/ home-in-Quebec for my birthday and later for Don MacKinnon's birthday bash (clans of Scotch relatives arrived from parts of Canada), then we drove to Donn's home in Quebec near Ottawa in late September for the blazing leaf displays in the Gatineau Hills. Where Kit and I roamed during the dozen years we were in Ottawa. So, it was nice to have those in-family meetings. Also, last winter Donn and Nancy came south see us.
Marcia is still deep into computer genealogy and having finished a nice publication on her mother's more-or-less Norwegian family (Hommedal), she's far into a "Smith version she things may run 300 pages with text and a myriad of pictures. I hope I'm still around to see it!
Well, Lorna, I guess you are the "Gore" as all women are while Myron is for "Bush" because chances are Bush plays golf. I'm right on, right?[!-no my parents were both died in the wool Republicans.] The Canadian government declared a national election last week and it will be voted on November 27th. Why can't Canada have the American fun of a year and a half of campaigning??0
All the best to you,
Your humble "cousin", Laton
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I believe that Zena possibly went by her middle name of Ellen, but will use Zena as it is her first name. I will paraphrase the death record as follows:
Zena died in Casper, Natrona County, Wyoming on 17 September 1924. She was 21 years, 2 months and 18 days old. Her date of birth was 25 June 1903.
She was a white married female. Her husband was C.D. Rice. Her occupation was as a housewife.
Zena was born in Missouri and her father's last name was Geiger, who was born in Iowa.
Zena's mother's maiden name was Gerrard and was born in Iowa.
The informant for the information was P.W. Geiger [Zena's father Perry] who lived in Mills Wy.
Marguerete Malatt was the Registrar of the document. Dr E.T. Gangner was the physician who took care of Zena. He states that he took care of her from Sept 14th to Sept.17, 1924. Zena died at 9PM due to "ruptured oophoritis - Purperal". This diagnosis ultimately led to Peritonitis. This disease process 3 or 4 days.
Zena did have surgery on the 15 September 1924. There was no autopsy.
Her burial took place in Casper Wyo on the 19 September 1924.
The mortuary was Shaffer-Gay, Co., in Casper.
Mrs. Zena Rice Dies at home in Mills
Mrs. Zena Rice, 21 year-old wife of Clarence D. Rice of Mills and mother of son Elden, age 2, and daughter Lillian, age 10 months, died last evening. Besides her husband and two children, her mother, Mrs. P.W. Geiger of Mills, also survives her.
The body is at the Shaffer-Gay mortuary. Funeral services will be conducted from there tomorrow afternoon, at 2 o'clock under the direction of Mrs. Lambert.
What is sad about this situation is the rest of the story. That is 3 days after the funeral, Zena's parents came by the house to check on the 3 remaining family members. Much to their surprise, Clarence had apparently cleared out his clothes and personal items, and left - the state. The Geiger's found that Pete, aged 3 years, was trying to take care of his sister Lillian who was 10 months old.
The end of the story is that the Geigers, Pete, and Lillian moved to Hanford California. I believe that they operated a dairy farm. That is where both children grew up.
Pete told us one time that he thought that he saw his father in a crowd but was not sure. He continued to say that if he could have, he would have hit him.
I can't say that I don't blame him.
Below is one part of the FamilySearch.org family tree .......
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"To my surprise I had a long letter from my Aunt Ida today. She is 87 years old -- had a slight stroke once and spent a year or more in a wheel chair; also had a cancer cured with radium. And this is what she did last week:
She took her letter to me, out to her mail-box in a pouring rain and the postman had been there, so she brought the letter back and found herself locked out of her house! She finally remembered she had put a small piece of lead pencil under one window, so went to her garage, got the step-ladder and climbed in the window! She was soaking wet, but changing to dry clothes, suffered no ill effects.
So the letter had two parts -- the second to tell me about her escapade and here I had no idea she could even get along without her wheel chair! I did not hear from her at Christmas time, so thought she must be worse." {this would be about Latons mom?LLW}
Then the letter continues about herself. {Stella} Briefly, let's see what she's doing in March, '43:
"It must be after ten, so I must go to bed. Tomorrow we have D.A.R. meeting at Mrs. Gooding's. And church services three nights in a row and Thurs. evening our Business & Profesional Circle meets, too. I have a committee meeting hours. afternoon to plan the Mystery Mother & Daughter dinner for Mar. 30th. A busy week. It was 10° below yesterday morning; 20° above this morning with snow and colder predicted."
EXPLANATIONS:
Stella/Mother is 63 at this time.
The mystery Mother Dinner concerns the Methodist "Standard Bearers" program for high school girls. Their focus was mostly on home and foreign missions pls some socializing (Stay away from boys !") Mother directed this program from about '32 to '42. Now, each girl had a "Mystery Mother" who had various secret contacts with the girls during the year; then at the May banquet the girls met their Mystery Mother.
Both Mary and Kit were in the group but at different times and didn't know each other then. The monthly meetings were at the church and at various homes as I remember.
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Dear Lorna & Myron;
No, This is not for Christmas ! But for something I've been trying to get at for a LONG time. Sending you excerpts from my Mother's letters to my sister, Janet, in New York.
These excerpts are about the then current doings of Mother's aunt Ida, your great grandmother, Lorna ??? I haven't the family chart in front of me.
Leading to this was the recent death of Janet last May, age 91. She had a severe stroke and demanded (by printing that extra efforts not be made to extend her life. We agreed and she survived about a week or so. Ashes taken back to Rochester [Minnesota] where she is by my Kit.
She had boxes of Mother's letters (hundreds) and I took several to peruse from the early '40's to the '70's. Thus I've seen the "Ida" references. And there may be even more that I haven't discovered.
So, here they are:
Sept. 14, 1941:
"I wonder if I wrote that I had received a letter from Aunt Ida -- she is somewhat better -- gets her own meals. Her son, Harry, stays there nights and his wife comes each day to clean up the house, so she gets along. She is 85. Her grandmother lived to be that old."
Jan. 3, 1942:
"I received a letter from my step-mother (Lucinda - 'Cindy" - Greene, Lorna) and she had heard that my Aunt Ida has had to move from her little house in Burbank because it is so near the Lockheed plant. Of course, she will be paid for it, but it must be a great hardship for her to move, as she is a semi-invalid anyway. Some distant relative (who, Lorna??) had invited her to her home."
Feb. 24, 1942:
"I had a letter from my Aunt Ida. She has not left her house and does not intend to. Is feeling fairly well and manages to take care of herself. She wrote with a pen and her penmanship is marvelous for a woman 86 yeas old -- not much different than it has ever been."
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