Gentry county Missouri, Obituaries:  Mrs. Priscilla Blincoe

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Submitted by: <dhr1953@hotmail.com>  Don Raymond

The Stanberry Headlight, Thursday, April 30, 1953:
Tuesday services for Mrs. Blincoe:
Former Stanberry Businesswoman, a resident of this city for 53 years, dies 
at home here.

Mrs. Priscilla Blincoe, a resident of Stanberry for more than 53 years, and 
long identified with the business live of this city, died at her home here 
early Monday morning.  She had been in ill health for some time and seriously 
ill for more than a month.

In the death of Mrs. Blincoe, Stanberry lost one of the few remaining pioneer 
business citizens of the city.  She had her late husband, W. E. Blincoe, 
opened a drug store here in 1899, and they continued its operation until his 
death in 1926.  After his death she continued the active management of the 
business until her health failed and she sold the store to J. T. Norment and 
Mrs. Norment and Miss Bonnie DePriest in December, 1945.  Thus for 46 years 
she was a distinct part of the business life of Stanberry.

She was a charter member and the first president of the Business and 
Professional Women's club in Stanberry.  She had been a member of the Hunter 
chapter of the Order of Eastern Star here for 44 years.

Mrs. Blincoe, who died Monday at the age of 83, was the daughter of Alexander 
and Mena Meyer Haas and was born in Bowling Green, Ind.  She was married to 
Mr. Blincoe in 1895.  Prior to coming to Stanberry 1899, they had been in 
business in Marceline, MO., and in Canon City, Colo.

She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Edna Halstead, of Los Angeles, Cal., and 
several nephews and nieces.

Funeral Services were held for her Tuesday afternoon at the Phillips mortuary 
here with the Dr. Myron Meyer, rabbi at Adath temple in St. Joseph, 
officiating.  Burial was in the High Ridge cemetery here.