FLORA PETTINGILL GILBERT OBITUARY, YATES CO., NY

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Mrs. Flora Gilbert  (Flora Pettingill)
     Dundee, March 30 -- Mrs. Flora Pettingill Gilbert, 87, formerly of Dundee, died Saturday
(March 27, 1954) at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital in Penn Yan. She was the widow
of Frank Gilbert. Born in Starkey, the daughter of William and Ellen Strouble(sic, should be
Struble) Pettingill, she lived at Shannon's Corners for several years and for the past five
years, made her home at the Turner Nursing Home in Penn Yan.  Most of her life, she served as a
practical nurse.  She was a member of the Starkey Methodist Church and the Helping hand Society
and Ladies Bible Class in the Sunday School of that church.      She leaves a son, John of RD
5, Penn Yan; three daughters, Mrs. Harvey Rapalee of Rock Stream, Mrs. Merle Baker of Elmira,
and Mrs. Harold Roe of Auburn; a cousin, Mrs. Dolly Florance of Dundee; 23 grandchildren and 47
great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the Sargent and Oughterson Funeral Home until noon
Tuesday. Services were held at 2 p. m. today at the Starkey Methodist Church, the Rev. Carlton
Stevens, pastor, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Benjamin Disbrow, pastor of the Dundee
Baptist Church.  Burial was in Starkey Cemetery.

-- Unidentified newspaper clipping from the scrapbook of Viola Emma Florance Rose, probably
Dundee Observer