GERTRUDE VANHOOSE
1896-1959
  
Mrs. Gertrude Van Hoose, 62, wife of Fred Van Hoose of Kerz, died in a
local hospital Thursday, May 28, at 1:45 p.m., following an illness of
four months.
  
The daughter of Isaac H. and Mary Jane Murphy Short, she was born in this
county August 11, 1896, and had lived in the Kerz community most of her
life.
  
Survivors include besides her husband, three daughters, Mrs. Clyde
McKenzie and Mrs. Edgel Hackney, both of Sitka; Mrs. Reba Castle, Nippa;
two sisters, Mrs. Sam Preston, Meally,  and Mrs. Otto Green, Stambaugh.
  
Funeral services were conducted at 10:00 a.m., Sunday, May 31, from the
Freewill Baptist Church at Sitka with Scott Castle, Millard Van Hoose and
C. C. Hall as officiating ministers.
  
Music was by the Toms Creek Quartet.
  
Burial was in the Van Hoose Cemetery at Nippa.
  
Paintsville Herald
Wednesday
3 June 1959

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