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OBITUARY - Winfield Daily Courier, April 21, 1922, page 4:

Larimore

Mrs. Richard C. Larimore of 1301 east Fifth avenue, died Friday morning at four o'clock. Mrs. Larimore had been an invalid for several years and since the death of her sister Mrs. C.W. Fraser on February 21, 1922 she has grown worse.

Mrs. Larimore was a lovely woman loved by a host of friends. She was a devoted wife and mother and lived a beautiful Christian life.

Ann Frakes was born in Dekalb county, Missouri, December 21, 1922 aged 51 years 4 months and 19 days.

She was married to Richard C. Larimore September 13, 1898, at Las Vegas, New Mexico and to this union were born two daughters, Lucile and Hope. Lucile met a tragic death in February 1910 when her clothing caught fire from a bonfire and burned her so that death resulted a few hours later. It was a severe blow to the mother and her grief for the daughter was never assuaged.

She leaves besides the husband, who is chief clerk for the Santa Fe, and daughter Hope, her father N.T. Frakes of Atlanta, four sisters and three brothers, Mrs. Hugh Hufford and Gaines Frakes of Grand Junction, Colorado, R.G. Frakes of Denver, Colorado; Charles and Mary Frakes of Latham, Mrs. Will Ellett of Towanda, and Mrs. Art Bing of Winfield.

Mr. and Mrs. Larimore came to Winfield in 1906 from Las Vegas, New Mexico, and have resided here ever since.

The funeral will be held from the home Sunday afternoon at four o'clock.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE - Winfield Daily Courier, Saturday, March 5, 1910, page 1:

Fatally Burned

Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Larimore the Victim

Lucile, the nine year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Larimore of 719 Manning, was badly burned probably fatally, Saturday afternoon, by her clothes catching from burning trash. She was raking leaves in the yard with a running fire to burn them. Frequently in a stooping posture in order to pick up the trash her skirts came in contact with some of the low flames and were ignited. When she found she was ablaze she started to running, so that those who tried to catch her in order to put out the fire, did so with great difficulty. Her mother burned her own hands badly trying to beat out the fire or to hold the girl who broke away every time she was seized. She was frightfully burned about the body, but her face escaped. All her clothing was consumed. The physicians have no hopes of her recovery.

DEATH NOTICE - Winfield Daily Courier, March 7, 1910:

Died from burns

Little Lucile Larimore, who was burned Saturday afternoon, died that evening at seven o'clock. The funeral took place from the home of the parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.C. Larimore, at half past ten o'clock Monday afternoon.

DEATH NOTICE - The Granville (Ohio) Times, Mar 10, 1910:

On Saturday afternoon of last week, Mr. John Larimore received a telegram from his son, Mr. Richard Larimore of Winfield, Kansas, informing him that his only daughter, age 11 years, was terribly burned while burning paper and rubbish in the yard at their home. Sunday Mr. Larimore received another telegram informing him that the child had died ten hours after the accident. The child's mother, who had been confined to her bed with sickness, was also badly burned in endeavoring to extinguish the flames and it is feared that she cannot survive. Mr. Richard Larimore had intended to be in Granville this week. George Larimore, who is a successful hardware merchant in Oklahoma City, upon being notified of the accident, at once left for the home of his brother.

OBITUARY - The Miami Herald, (FL); April 5, 1988; Edition: FINAL, Page: 3D:

'THENA' PERRY, HERALD SOCIETY EDITOR IN '50S

Bethena Townley Perry, who was The Miami Herald's society editor from 1951 to 1954, died Saturday in her daughter's Arizona home. She was 88.

Mrs. Perry -- who used the name Thena -- not only covered society; she was involved in it. When it came time to hire a new society editor, Herald editors decided they wanted someone who was a socialite. They asked Mrs. Perry, who had no newspaper experience.

"Her husband Larry's idea of relaxation was to row out to Biscayne Bay, anchor and fish. But Thena loved society," said friend Marie Anderson.

An outgoing, friendly woman, Mrs. Perry would rush from party to party, phoning articles in to editors.

In 1954, she became a columnist. She worked for The Herald for about another year.

Mrs. Perry and her family were among Miami's pioneers. She was born here in 1900. Her father, pharmacist John Madison Townley, was one of 502 people who voted to make Miami a city on July 28, 1896. He built the first skyscraper, the Townley Building, on Flagler Street. It is still there.

During World War I, Mrs. Perry headed up 15,000 volunteers, most of them women, who worked at the servicemen's pier in Miami Beach, a recreation center for men serving in the war.

"She was a bubbler," said friend Kay Pancoast. "She was bright, warm and friendly."

Mrs. Perry died in Prescott, Ariz., where she had gone 14 years ago to be near her daughter Linda Cheek. In addition to Cheek, she is survived by daughter Amanda Donalds of Massachusetts and sister Rosemarie Smathers of Vero Beach, nine grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

Memorial services will be held in Arizona and at 11 a.m. Friday in Woodlawn Park Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Bascom-Palmer Eye Institute.

license issuance reported in the 25 NOV 1924 edition of the Detroit Free Press, p.21 (Newspapers.com).

Obituary – The Daily Reporter, Dover, Ohio; Saturday, 16 SEP 1972, p.A-12 (Newspapers.com):

Ronald D. Rhoads

WAYNESBURG-- Ronald D. Rhoads, 21, of 154 E. Lisbon st., died of cancer this morning in Canton Aultman Hospital following a six-month illness. Born in Canton, he moved here in 1970 from East Canton.

He was a 1969 graduate of Canton South High, where he participated in football and basketball. Since then, he managed church softball teams and was coach of a Waynesburg little league team. He attended the Little Country Church north of here and was a member of the village fire department.

He was an employe of Coen Oil Co. of Canton.

Surviving are his widow, Karen, a son, Jamie M.; his mother, Mrs. Sarah Rhoads of East Canton; two sisters and two brothers, Doris and Doratha of the home, Launie of here and Raymond of Vermilion; two half-sisters, Mrs. Ronald (Beverly) Jacobs of California and Mrs. Maris (Jeanette) Miller of Louisville, and a grandmother, Mrs. Mayville Rhoades (sic) of Baldwinsville, N.Y.

Rev. Melvin Truex will officiate at services Tuesday at 1:30 in the Little Country Church. Burial will be in Sandy Valley Cemetery. Friends may call Monday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 in McCreery-Finefrock Funeral Home at Magnolia, and Tuesday from 12:30 to 1:30 at the church.