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Obituary, Hannibal Courier-Post, Hannibal, Missouri, 29 JAN 2013, p.3A:

Hannibal, Mo. -- Betty Jean Kramer, age 83, of Hannibal, Mo., passed away at 1:53 a.m. on Saturday, January 26, 2013, at Maple Lawn Nursing Home in Palmyra, Mo.

She is the wife of Charles Kramer of Hannibal, Mo.

A private family service will be held. The James O’Donnell Funeral Home of Hannibal, Mo., is handling arrangements.

OBITUARY - Ethel Marie (Mullinix) Green-Martin (mother of Betty Jean (Green) Kramer, Hannibal Courier-Post, June 12, 1992

Marie Martin

HANNIBAL - Services for Ethel Marie Martin, 83, Gassville, Ark., and formerly of Hannibal, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the James O'Donnell Funeral Home. The Rev. Larry Rap will officiate. Burial will be at Grand View Burial Park.

Mrs. Martin died at 6:03 p.m. June 10, 1992, at Baxter County Regional Hospital in Mountain Home, Ark.

She was born Nov. 6, 1908, in Macon County to Charles and Nora E. Creason Mullinix.

She was married to Theodore Martin. He survives.

Also surviving are four daughters, Betty Jean Kramer, Doris Marie Hopping and Nancy Sue Bowman, all of Mountain Home, Ark., and Carol Higgins of Center; two sons, Jerry Martin and Ronald Martin, both of Hannibal; 14 grandchildren and 14 great-grand-children.

She was preceded in death by one daughter, Marjorie Green; and two grandchildren.

Mrs. Martin was a member of First Church of the Nazarene.

Visitation will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Pallbearers will be Jason Martin, Jerry Shepherd, Gary Sanders, Kenneth Lund, Matthew McCarty and Donald Martin.

OBITUARY - The Salem, Indiana Leader, June 30, 1949:

Huldah M. Walker Funeral Rites Are Conducted Today

Mrs. Huldah May Walker, 57 year old wife of Albert Walker, died Tuesday night, June 28, at her home on North Water Street.

The daughter of the late John and Etta Weir Blankenbaker, she was born in Washington county on July 13, 1891.

Funeral Services were held at 2:00 p, m. today (Thursday) at the First Christian Church. The Rev. George W. Smith officiated and burial was in Crown Hill cemetery.

Others surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Maud Dean, South Boston, and Miss Helen Walker, Salem; a half-sister, Philena Hiatt, Anderson, Ind.; a granddaughter, Ruth Dean; and other relatives.

OBITUARY - The Salem, Indiana Leader, December 21, 1960:

South Boston Man Killed, Two Others Injured In Truck Accidents

Claude E. Taylor, 70, a lifelong resident of Washington County, was instantly killed at 1:30 p. m. Monday in one of two unusual truck accidents to occur in the past few days.

Taylor died of a skull fracture and broken neck, according to Coroner E. M. Coots of Clark County.

The fatal injuries occurred when a truck load of logs with which he was riding, got out of control of the driver, Martin Collier of South Boston vicinity, and ran off the road into a dry creek. The logs shifted and rammed into the cab, crushing Taylor and pinning him into the cab so tightly that it required a wrecker to remove the logs and pull the bent and twisted cab apart before his body could be removed.

Collier was badly bruised and shaken but had no broken bones. The logs shifted enough to miss him, knocking the door of the cab open beside him. The first to arrive at the scene of the accident said Collier was out of the truck and was trying to use the log loading mechanism on the back of the truck to pull the logs from the cab and free Taylor. Collier was brought to the Washington County Memorial Hospital where he was reported very sore and stiff from bruises and injuries.

The accident occurred about two and a half miles north of Greenville on the Greenville-Pekin road. Tracks on the pavement indicated one wheel of the truck probably ran off the right side of the road, then was brought back onto the center of the highway before plunging off the right side at the end of a small bridge, the truck ramming down the bank into the creek. Seven large logs were on the truck and the weight may have started swaying, causing the driver to lose control, was a possible explanation voiced by some at the scene.

The Cooke Wrecker from Salem was called (and) worked for some time in freeing Taylor’s body from the wreckage. The wrecked truck was later moved to Salem.

Funeral Thursday

Funeral services for Claude E. Taylor will be held in the Weir Memorial Methodist Church in Salem at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon.

Mr. Taylor was born in Washington county July 13, 1890, the son of Lewis and Margaret Waisner Taylor. On December 10, 1913 he married Rosa Belle Walker. She died July 7, 1957. Surviving are two daughters, Miss Hazel Taylor of Route 1, Salem and Mrs. Dorothy Anderson, Route 5, Salem, also two granddaughters, Carolyn Sue and Marilyn Lou Anderson.

He was a member of the Conoway Methodist Church and the Modern Woodmen of America. He had been a farmer.

Funeral services are in charge of the Dawalt Funeral Home where friends may call until the hour of the service. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. James Gentry and Earl Davis will officiate at the service.

OBITUARY #2 - The Pekin, Indiana Banner-Gazette, December 23, 1960:

Claude E. Taylor, 70, Killed in Log Truck

Claude E. Taylor, 70, South Boston farmer, was killed Tuesday afternoon, when the log truck in which he was riding swerved off the road and went over an embankment on the Pekin-Greenville road.

Marvin T. Collier, driver, suffered only cuts and bruises and was out of the truck when state police arrived trying to free Taylor, who was jammed in the cab by the logs which moved forward when the truck went over the bank. Taylor had a skull fracture and broken neck.

Taylor was a member of the Conoway Methodist church and a Woodman.

Survivors include two daughters, Hazel Taylor, Rt. 1, Salem, and Mrs. Dorothy V. Anderson, and two granddaughters Carolyn Sue and Marilyn Lou Anderson.

The funeral was Thursday afternoon with Dawalt Funeral home in charge.

OBITUARY #3 - Claude Elmer Taylor, The Salem Leader or The Salem Democrat, December 1960:

CLAUDE ELMER TAYLOR

Claude Elmer Taylor, son of Lewis and Margaret Waisner Taylor, was born in Washington county, July 13, 1890, and departed this life December 19, 1960. With the exception of a few years when he lived in northern Indiana, most of his life was spent on a farm.

He was a member of the Conoway Methodist Church and the Modern Woodmen of America.

On December 10, 1913, he was married to Rosa Belle Walker, who preceded him in death July 7, 1957. He is survived by two daughters, Hazel E. Taylor of Rt. 1, Salem; Dorothy B. Anderson, Rt. 5, Salem, and two granddaughters, Carolyn Sue and Marilyn Lou Anderson. Also surviving are a number of nieces, nephews and cousins. He will be missed not only by family and relatives but by many friends and neighbors for he was always a friend to everyone and one who strived to be helpful to others in every way he could.

Let all who are sad, take heart again,

We are not alone in our hours of pain,

Our Father stoops from his throne above,

To soothe and quiet us with his love.

He leaves us not when the storm is high,

And we have safety when he is nigh.

Can there be trouble which doth not share,

O, rest in peace for the Lord will care.

Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 22 at the Weir Memorial Methodist Church with Rev. James Gentry and Rev. Earl Davis officiating. Burial was at Crown Hill.