Washoe County NV Archives Obituaries.....Gale, Blanche February 6 1923
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Reno Evening Gazette, Feb. 7, 1923
Mrs. Blanche Gale Dies Suddenly in San Francisco

  News of the death in San Francisco last night of Mrs. Blanche Fale, received 

in Reno this morning, came as a shock to her many friends.  No details other 

than the fact that Mrs. Gale had died reached here.  Funeral services, it is 

understood, probably will he held in San Francisco, and the body will be 

cremated accoring [sic] to her wishes.

  Mrs. Gale was the widow of the late Albert Y. Gale, for many years one of 

the popular conductors of the Souther Pacific Company.  She was a native of 

Susanville, fifty-three years of ages, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Conkey, 

having crossed the Overland trail to California and Nevada in the early '60s.  

She was a niece of Mrs. Jane Lake, known as Reno's real pioneer woman.

  Two sisters, Mrs. Orle Whiting of Reno, and Mrs. A. Marlin of San Francisco 

and a brother, Ira Conkey of Los Angeles, survive.  It was at the home of Mrs. 

Marlin that Mrs. Gale died.  For several years Mrs. Gale was an invalid, being 

confined to a wheel chair.  She took up Christian Science and through this 

discarded the chair and regained her health.  She went into Christian Science 

deeply, becoming a practitioner and was known as one of the most successful 

practitioners in this city.  She was a cousin of Dr. Alice Thompson, 

bacteriologist at St. Mary's hospital.

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