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Bertha May Courtney Sparks Rutherford “Garfield” & Bertha Sparks Florence “Flora” Bella – Born 1/26/1892 and died 11/27/1927
Flora married John Banholzer on June 27, 1911. She was 19 and he was 22. They had 4 children. Flora was widowed at age 28 when her husband died March 20, 1920, one day after his 31st birthday, from acute meningitis and influenza. Flora died in 1927 at the age of 35.
Flossie – Born 8/2/1895 and died 11/24/1961
Flossie married Richard E. Cannon on December 10, 1913. He was 23 and she was 18. They had 4 children. Their son Arthur was a few years older than Daddy, but they were friends. Arthur and his wife Leona lived in Hamburg and I went to school with his daughters Susan and Barbara.
Richard died from heart disease on at the age of 75. Flossie suffered for 10 years from Hypertensive Cardiovascular disease, and she died November 24, 1961, at age 66.
Mabel Edith - Born 2/23/1897 and died 10/27/1957
Mabel married Earl T. Cannon (brother to Richard E. Cannon) on March 27, 1915. Mabel was 18 and Earl was 21. They had 6 children that included a set of twin boys born in 1917. One of the twins, Thomas E died before the age of 3. Mabel and Earl divorced, and he died of TB at the age of 44 on September 18, 1939.
Mabel married M. H. Mauk on November 9, 1936. She was 39 years old and he was 24. They had 2 children, Joyce born in 1936 and Ruby Joan, born June 28, 1939. Mabel was 42 years old and her
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