Belle Pauline <I>Turner</I> Foster

Belle Pauline Turner Foster

Birth
Tice, Menard County, Illinois, USA
Death
10 Jan 1918 (aged 23)
Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois, USA
Burial
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MORTUARY Foster.


Mrs. Belle Pauline Turner Foster, residing three miles west of the city died at Our Savior's hospital at 3:55 o'clock Thursday afternoon after an illness of three weeks of spinal meningitis. Belle Pauline Turner was the daughter of J. B. and Edna Sampson Turner and was born at Tice, near Petersburg June 10, 1894. She resided there with her parents for a number of years and then the family moved to Beardstown where she lived for 11 years and graduated from the Beardstown high school.


She was united in marriag in Chicago March 9, 1916, to Orville F Foster. Since that time they have resided on the John Leach farm, west of the city. She is survived by her husband and a baby daughter, Frances Emma Foster, one year old. She also leaves her parents and one brother, Luther M. Beardstown and two Turner sisters, Mrs. Cha Reubsamen of Montana and Mrs. Ruth Hansen of Chicago.


Deceased taught school at Alexander for two years prior to her marriage. She was a member of Berea Christian church and was active in the work of its various activities. Mrs. Foster was a woman of high ideals and her fine christian character and her many qualities of heart and mind endeared her to all with whom she came in contact. Her death coming as it does at the threshold of young womanhood makes it particularly sad, and will bring sorrow to many hearts.


Funeral services will be held from Berea church Sunday afternoon at 12 o'clock in charge of the Rev G. Cantrell of Concord.


Jacksonville Journal Courier

Jacksonville, Illinois · Friday, January 11, 1918 Page 3



MORTUARY Foster.


Mrs. Belle Pauline Turner Foster, residing three miles west of the city died at Our Savior's hospital at 3:55 o'clock Thursday afternoon after an illness of three weeks of spinal meningitis. Belle Pauline Turner was the daughter of J. B. and Edna Sampson Turner and was born at Tice, near Petersburg June 10, 1894. She resided there with her parents for a number of years and then the family moved to Beardstown where she lived for 11 years and graduated from the Beardstown high school.


She was united in marriag in Chicago March 9, 1916, to Orville F Foster. Since that time they have resided on the John Leach farm, west of the city. She is survived by her husband and a baby daughter, Frances Emma Foster, one year old. She also leaves her parents and one brother, Luther M. Beardstown and two Turner sisters, Mrs. Cha Reubsamen of Montana and Mrs. Ruth Hansen of Chicago.


Deceased taught school at Alexander for two years prior to her marriage. She was a member of Berea Christian church and was active in the work of its various activities. Mrs. Foster was a woman of high ideals and her fine christian character and her many qualities of heart and mind endeared her to all with whom she came in contact. Her death coming as it does at the threshold of young womanhood makes it particularly sad, and will bring sorrow to many hearts.


Funeral services will be held from Berea church Sunday afternoon at 12 o'clock in charge of the Rev G. Cantrell of Concord.


Jacksonville Journal Courier

Jacksonville, Illinois · Friday, January 11, 1918 Page 3





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