MILFORD WOMAN'S DEATH SHOCKS COMMUNITY
Mrs. Verna Gibbs Seized with Sudden Heart Attack About Noon Thursday - Died About Twelve Hours Later at Mt. Carmel Hospital - Had Evinced no Symptoms of Heart Ailment Previously - Was for Many Years Telephone Operator at Milford - Three Years Ago Took Over Sheldon Exchange - Left a Widow in 1918 with Two Small Daughters - Reared Two Foster Daughters - Had Seemed in Especially Good Health and Spirits Shortly Before Seizure
The people of the Milford and Sheldon communities were deeply shocked and grieved Friday morning as the word of the death of Mrs. Verna Gibbs, fifty four, spread throughout the neighborhoods.
Mrs. Gibbs, the telephone operator at Sheldon, was on the board at the office during the morning Thursday. At the noon hour she stopped in at the post office. Those friends she greeted were struck with how well the telephone operator was looking and in what fine spirits they found her.
Fifteen or twenty minutes later Mrs. Gibbs was stricken with a heart attack as she sat down to the table to eat lunch at her home. She was rushed in the Beeny ambulance to Mt. Carmel Hospital. There she died at one thirty Friday morning.
The deceased had suffered no previous heart attack. So far as was known, she had shown no symptoms of a heart ailment. Her death at the hands of the No. 1 killer, was a deep and grievous shock to her family and friends.
Verna Mae Capps was born just over the Vernon County line on February 11, 1893. As a young woman she was married to Joseph Gibbs. The latter died in 1918, leaving his widow with two small daughters. The widowed woman took over the telephone exchange at Milford to support herself and her children. She held this position until the exchange was abandoned about three years ago. She then took the board at Sheldon.
She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Olene Purinton of Milford, and Mrs. Maxine Douglas of Edgerton, Missouri. Two foster daughters, children of a dead sister of the deceased, whom the latter reared, also survive. They are Mrs. Wilma Staples of San Gabriel, California, and Mrs. Donna Mae Baker of Kansas City. In addition, she leaves her aged mother, Mrs. Clara Sheehorn of the home in Sheldon, one brother and two sisters, Earl Capps of Kansas City, Mrs. Dollie McDavid [sic, McDavitt], also of Kansas City, and Mrs. Bessie Gibbs of Casper, Wyoming.
The body was taken to the Benny Funeral Home at Sheldon to be prepared for burial. The funeral service was announced to take place Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. at the Milford Church with burial at Howell Cemetery.
Lamar Democrat, November 25, 1947, Pg 1
Mrs. Verna Gibbs Seized with Sudden Heart Attack About Noon Thursday - Died About Twelve Hours Later at Mt. Carmel Hospital - Had Evinced no Symptoms of Heart Ailment Previously - Was for Many Years Telephone Operator at Milford - Three Years Ago Took Over Sheldon Exchange - Left a Widow in 1918 with Two Small Daughters - Reared Two Foster Daughters - Had Seemed in Especially Good Health and Spirits Shortly Before Seizure
The people of the Milford and Sheldon communities were deeply shocked and grieved Friday morning as the word of the death of Mrs. Verna Gibbs, fifty four, spread throughout the neighborhoods.
Mrs. Gibbs, the telephone operator at Sheldon, was on the board at the office during the morning Thursday. At the noon hour she stopped in at the post office. Those friends she greeted were struck with how well the telephone operator was looking and in what fine spirits they found her.
Fifteen or twenty minutes later Mrs. Gibbs was stricken with a heart attack as she sat down to the table to eat lunch at her home. She was rushed in the Beeny ambulance to Mt. Carmel Hospital. There she died at one thirty Friday morning.
The deceased had suffered no previous heart attack. So far as was known, she had shown no symptoms of a heart ailment. Her death at the hands of the No. 1 killer, was a deep and grievous shock to her family and friends.
Verna Mae Capps was born just over the Vernon County line on February 11, 1893. As a young woman she was married to Joseph Gibbs. The latter died in 1918, leaving his widow with two small daughters. The widowed woman took over the telephone exchange at Milford to support herself and her children. She held this position until the exchange was abandoned about three years ago. She then took the board at Sheldon.
She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Olene Purinton of Milford, and Mrs. Maxine Douglas of Edgerton, Missouri. Two foster daughters, children of a dead sister of the deceased, whom the latter reared, also survive. They are Mrs. Wilma Staples of San Gabriel, California, and Mrs. Donna Mae Baker of Kansas City. In addition, she leaves her aged mother, Mrs. Clara Sheehorn of the home in Sheldon, one brother and two sisters, Earl Capps of Kansas City, Mrs. Dollie McDavid [sic, McDavitt], also of Kansas City, and Mrs. Bessie Gibbs of Casper, Wyoming.
The body was taken to the Benny Funeral Home at Sheldon to be prepared for burial. The funeral service was announced to take place Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. at the Milford Church with burial at Howell Cemetery.
Lamar Democrat, November 25, 1947, Pg 1
MILFORD WOMAN'S DEATH SHOCKS COMMUNITY
Mrs. Verna Gibbs Seized with Sudden Heart Attack About Noon Thursday - Died About Twelve Hours Later at Mt. Carmel Hospital - Had Evinced no Symptoms of Heart Ailment Previously - Was for Many Years Telephone Operator at Milford - Three Years Ago Took Over Sheldon Exchange - Left a Widow in 1918 with Two Small Daughters - Reared Two Foster Daughters - Had Seemed in Especially Good Health and Spirits Shortly Before Seizure
The people of the Milford and Sheldon communities were deeply shocked and grieved Friday morning as the word of the death of Mrs. Verna Gibbs, fifty four, spread throughout the neighborhoods.
Mrs. Gibbs, the telephone operator at Sheldon, was on the board at the office during the morning Thursday. At the noon hour she stopped in at the post office. Those friends she greeted were struck with how well the telephone operator was looking and in what fine spirits they found her.
Fifteen or twenty minutes later Mrs. Gibbs was stricken with a heart attack as she sat down to the table to eat lunch at her home. She was rushed in the Beeny ambulance to Mt. Carmel Hospital. There she died at one thirty Friday morning.
The deceased had suffered no previous heart attack. So far as was known, she had shown no symptoms of a heart ailment. Her death at the hands of the No. 1 killer, was a deep and grievous shock to her family and friends.
Verna Mae Capps was born just over the Vernon County line on February 11, 1893. As a young woman she was married to Joseph Gibbs. The latter died in 1918, leaving his widow with two small daughters. The widowed woman took over the telephone exchange at Milford to support herself and her children. She held this position until the exchange was abandoned about three years ago. She then took the board at Sheldon.
She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Olene Purinton of Milford, and Mrs. Maxine Douglas of Edgerton, Missouri. Two foster daughters, children of a dead sister of the deceased, whom the latter reared, also survive. They are Mrs. Wilma Staples of San Gabriel, California, and Mrs. Donna Mae Baker of Kansas City. In addition, she leaves her aged mother, Mrs. Clara Sheehorn of the home in Sheldon, one brother and two sisters, Earl Capps of Kansas City, Mrs. Dollie McDavid [sic, McDavitt], also of Kansas City, and Mrs. Bessie Gibbs of Casper, Wyoming.
The body was taken to the Benny Funeral Home at Sheldon to be prepared for burial. The funeral service was announced to take place Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. at the Milford Church with burial at Howell Cemetery.
Lamar Democrat, November 25, 1947, Pg 1
Mrs. Verna Gibbs Seized with Sudden Heart Attack About Noon Thursday - Died About Twelve Hours Later at Mt. Carmel Hospital - Had Evinced no Symptoms of Heart Ailment Previously - Was for Many Years Telephone Operator at Milford - Three Years Ago Took Over Sheldon Exchange - Left a Widow in 1918 with Two Small Daughters - Reared Two Foster Daughters - Had Seemed in Especially Good Health and Spirits Shortly Before Seizure
The people of the Milford and Sheldon communities were deeply shocked and grieved Friday morning as the word of the death of Mrs. Verna Gibbs, fifty four, spread throughout the neighborhoods.
Mrs. Gibbs, the telephone operator at Sheldon, was on the board at the office during the morning Thursday. At the noon hour she stopped in at the post office. Those friends she greeted were struck with how well the telephone operator was looking and in what fine spirits they found her.
Fifteen or twenty minutes later Mrs. Gibbs was stricken with a heart attack as she sat down to the table to eat lunch at her home. She was rushed in the Beeny ambulance to Mt. Carmel Hospital. There she died at one thirty Friday morning.
The deceased had suffered no previous heart attack. So far as was known, she had shown no symptoms of a heart ailment. Her death at the hands of the No. 1 killer, was a deep and grievous shock to her family and friends.
Verna Mae Capps was born just over the Vernon County line on February 11, 1893. As a young woman she was married to Joseph Gibbs. The latter died in 1918, leaving his widow with two small daughters. The widowed woman took over the telephone exchange at Milford to support herself and her children. She held this position until the exchange was abandoned about three years ago. She then took the board at Sheldon.
She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Olene Purinton of Milford, and Mrs. Maxine Douglas of Edgerton, Missouri. Two foster daughters, children of a dead sister of the deceased, whom the latter reared, also survive. They are Mrs. Wilma Staples of San Gabriel, California, and Mrs. Donna Mae Baker of Kansas City. In addition, she leaves her aged mother, Mrs. Clara Sheehorn of the home in Sheldon, one brother and two sisters, Earl Capps of Kansas City, Mrs. Dollie McDavid [sic, McDavitt], also of Kansas City, and Mrs. Bessie Gibbs of Casper, Wyoming.
The body was taken to the Benny Funeral Home at Sheldon to be prepared for burial. The funeral service was announced to take place Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. at the Milford Church with burial at Howell Cemetery.
Lamar Democrat, November 25, 1947, Pg 1
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