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Leroy Joseph Bengamin Lingenfelter

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Leroy Joseph Bengamin Lingenfelter

Birth
Knox County, Missouri, USA
Death
26 Sep 1948 (aged 71)
Kirksville, Adair County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Edina, Knox County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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Twin to Leony A. Lingenfelter. Married Eva Klote in 1903. Married Margaret Frances TenEyck Strickler.

Occupation: Laborer

MO d/c 28764

LEROY LINGENFELTER IS DEAD
Born Near Millport, He Lived in Knox County Until Last Year.
Leroy B. Lingenfelter, Knox County native farmer and a brother of Oscar Lingenfelter of near Edina, died in a hospital in Kirksville at 11 o'clock Sunday morning. He suffered a heart attack in his home in Kirksville earlier that morning and was taken to the hospital, where he died a short while later.
The rosary was said Monday evening at the Easley Funeral Home in Hurdland by the Rev. Terence Mullins, pastor of St. Joseph Church of Edina and funeral services were conducted there at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning by the Rev. John F. Kenny of Kirksville. Burial was here in the new cemetery of St. Joseph Church.
Mr. Lingenfelter, a son of Henry and Jennie Morrison Lingenfelter, was born Aug. 17, 1877, near old Millport, northeast of Edina. He grew to manhood in that locality. By his first marriage he had two daughters, Mrs. Rita Mae Pruess of St. Louis and Mrs. Juanita Matkin of Macon, and a son, Leon, who was killed in 1942 in an accident in Cuba, Ill. On Jan. 2, 1947, he was married to Mrs. Margaret Strickler of Hurdland. The couple lived on a farm southwest of Hurdland for a short time and for a while Mr. Lingenfelter was caretaker of the Baring Country Club. Later they moved to Kirksville.
Besides his daughters and brother, he leaves his wife and two step-children, Howard Strickler and Mrs. Helen Baker of Kirksville; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Davenport of Meridian, Iowa, and Mrs. Nettie Rekus of Baring; six grandchildren and two step grandchildren. A twin brother, Leon, preceded him in death, as also did another brother, Lester Lingenfelter.
Twin to Leony A. Lingenfelter. Married Eva Klote in 1903. Married Margaret Frances TenEyck Strickler.

Occupation: Laborer

MO d/c 28764

LEROY LINGENFELTER IS DEAD
Born Near Millport, He Lived in Knox County Until Last Year.
Leroy B. Lingenfelter, Knox County native farmer and a brother of Oscar Lingenfelter of near Edina, died in a hospital in Kirksville at 11 o'clock Sunday morning. He suffered a heart attack in his home in Kirksville earlier that morning and was taken to the hospital, where he died a short while later.
The rosary was said Monday evening at the Easley Funeral Home in Hurdland by the Rev. Terence Mullins, pastor of St. Joseph Church of Edina and funeral services were conducted there at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning by the Rev. John F. Kenny of Kirksville. Burial was here in the new cemetery of St. Joseph Church.
Mr. Lingenfelter, a son of Henry and Jennie Morrison Lingenfelter, was born Aug. 17, 1877, near old Millport, northeast of Edina. He grew to manhood in that locality. By his first marriage he had two daughters, Mrs. Rita Mae Pruess of St. Louis and Mrs. Juanita Matkin of Macon, and a son, Leon, who was killed in 1942 in an accident in Cuba, Ill. On Jan. 2, 1947, he was married to Mrs. Margaret Strickler of Hurdland. The couple lived on a farm southwest of Hurdland for a short time and for a while Mr. Lingenfelter was caretaker of the Baring Country Club. Later they moved to Kirksville.
Besides his daughters and brother, he leaves his wife and two step-children, Howard Strickler and Mrs. Helen Baker of Kirksville; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Davenport of Meridian, Iowa, and Mrs. Nettie Rekus of Baring; six grandchildren and two step grandchildren. A twin brother, Leon, preceded him in death, as also did another brother, Lester Lingenfelter.


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