Daughter of Frank and Lola Smith King.
Victim of a tornado that took 72 lives in Harrison County, 9 in Barbour County, 3 in Marion County, 7 in Randolph County, and 103 in all of West Virginia; 846 persons were seriously injured and 404 homes destroyed.∼Died in the Shinnston tornado with both of her sons, Charles and Jerry.
Buried July 1, 1944.
JULY 6. 1944 ISSUE--
With the definite identification by friends Friday afternoon of a body found floating on the Monongahela river at Masontown, Pa., as Mrs. Geneva Carol Lindsey, 22, of Shinnston, state police were able to check off the last known missing victims of the June 23 tornado. A high school class ring was important in establishing the identity of Mrs. Lindsey, whose body was recovered Thursday after floating approximately fifty miles in the six days since the tornado.
Mrs. Lindsey was the wife of Charles Lindsey, a street car operator in Baltimore, Md. She was born Sept. 6, 1921, at Wyatt, the daughter of Frank and Lola Smith King. She leaves her father and husband and a son, James Edward 2. Her mother, Mrs. Lola King, perished in the tornado.
Three sisters also survive, Mrs. Marie Brown of Kansas City, Kansas, Mrs. Virginia Mellon of Baltimore, and Mrs. Hazel Bradley of Mannington. [Additional entry, same date:] Mrs. Geneva Carol Lindsey, 22, wife of Charles Lindsey, Jr., was found last Thursday in the Monongahela river
near Masontown. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the Masonic cemetery.
Victim of a tornado that took 72 lives in Harrison County, 9 in Barbour County, 3 in Marion County, 7 in Randolph County, and 103 in all of West Virginia; 846 persons were seriously injured and 404 homes destroyed.∼Died in the Shinnston tornado with both of her sons, Charles and Jerry.
Buried July 1, 1944.
JULY 6. 1944 ISSUE--
With the definite identification by friends Friday afternoon of a body found floating on the Monongahela river at Masontown, Pa., as Mrs. Geneva Carol Lindsey, 22, of Shinnston, state police were able to check off the last known missing victims of the June 23 tornado. A high school class ring was important in establishing the identity of Mrs. Lindsey, whose body was recovered Thursday after floating approximately fifty miles in the six days since the tornado.
Mrs. Lindsey was the wife of Charles Lindsey, a street car operator in Baltimore, Md. She was born Sept. 6, 1921, at Wyatt, the daughter of Frank and Lola Smith King. She leaves her father and husband and a son, James Edward 2. Her mother, Mrs. Lola King, perished in the tornado.
Three sisters also survive, Mrs. Marie Brown of Kansas City, Kansas, Mrs. Virginia Mellon of Baltimore, and Mrs. Hazel Bradley of Mannington. [Additional entry, same date:] Mrs. Geneva Carol Lindsey, 22, wife of Charles Lindsey, Jr., was found last Thursday in the Monongahela river
near Masontown. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the Masonic cemetery.
Daughter of Frank and Lola Smith King.
Victim of a tornado that took 72 lives in Harrison County, 9 in Barbour County, 3 in Marion County, 7 in Randolph County, and 103 in all of West Virginia; 846 persons were seriously injured and 404 homes destroyed.∼Died in the Shinnston tornado with both of her sons, Charles and Jerry.
Buried July 1, 1944.
JULY 6. 1944 ISSUE--
With the definite identification by friends Friday afternoon of a body found floating on the Monongahela river at Masontown, Pa., as Mrs. Geneva Carol Lindsey, 22, of Shinnston, state police were able to check off the last known missing victims of the June 23 tornado. A high school class ring was important in establishing the identity of Mrs. Lindsey, whose body was recovered Thursday after floating approximately fifty miles in the six days since the tornado.
Mrs. Lindsey was the wife of Charles Lindsey, a street car operator in Baltimore, Md. She was born Sept. 6, 1921, at Wyatt, the daughter of Frank and Lola Smith King. She leaves her father and husband and a son, James Edward 2. Her mother, Mrs. Lola King, perished in the tornado.
Three sisters also survive, Mrs. Marie Brown of Kansas City, Kansas, Mrs. Virginia Mellon of Baltimore, and Mrs. Hazel Bradley of Mannington. [Additional entry, same date:] Mrs. Geneva Carol Lindsey, 22, wife of Charles Lindsey, Jr., was found last Thursday in the Monongahela river
near Masontown. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the Masonic cemetery.
Victim of a tornado that took 72 lives in Harrison County, 9 in Barbour County, 3 in Marion County, 7 in Randolph County, and 103 in all of West Virginia; 846 persons were seriously injured and 404 homes destroyed.∼Died in the Shinnston tornado with both of her sons, Charles and Jerry.
Buried July 1, 1944.
JULY 6. 1944 ISSUE--
With the definite identification by friends Friday afternoon of a body found floating on the Monongahela river at Masontown, Pa., as Mrs. Geneva Carol Lindsey, 22, of Shinnston, state police were able to check off the last known missing victims of the June 23 tornado. A high school class ring was important in establishing the identity of Mrs. Lindsey, whose body was recovered Thursday after floating approximately fifty miles in the six days since the tornado.
Mrs. Lindsey was the wife of Charles Lindsey, a street car operator in Baltimore, Md. She was born Sept. 6, 1921, at Wyatt, the daughter of Frank and Lola Smith King. She leaves her father and husband and a son, James Edward 2. Her mother, Mrs. Lola King, perished in the tornado.
Three sisters also survive, Mrs. Marie Brown of Kansas City, Kansas, Mrs. Virginia Mellon of Baltimore, and Mrs. Hazel Bradley of Mannington. [Additional entry, same date:] Mrs. Geneva Carol Lindsey, 22, wife of Charles Lindsey, Jr., was found last Thursday in the Monongahela river
near Masontown. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the Masonic cemetery.
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