She was the second child and eldest daughter of William Lester Colby and Elizabeth W. Randall Colby's six children. Her parents were born and raised in New York State, and married in Genesee county, New York State. Her mother was a graduate of Ingham University, in Le Roy, New York. Her family was relocating to Kansas when she was born in Missouri.
On February 7, 1880, in Jackson county, Missouri, she was married to Andrew Jackson Kimmell; with him she was the mother of six:
Lester Colby Kimmell (1880-1981)
Mary Gertrude Kimmell Coolidge (1881-1977)
Reginald "Rex" Kimmell (1888-1915)
Louise Mildred Kimmell Bryner (1889-1968)
Eunice L. Kimmell Heater (1891-1982)
Frances E. Kimmell Rosenberg (1894-1990)
Along with all of her first husband's relatives, she was a part owner of The Washington Steamboat Company, Ltd., as evidenced by a ruling in U.S. v. Morris et al., Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, filed May 16, 1901, which added certain businesses and business owners as defendants in a case at equity with regard to any potential interest in certain wharves along the Potomac River. The court ruling listed the following owners of record for the Washington Steamboat Company, Ltd.:
William L[ambell] Kimmell (child of Abraham F. Kimmell and Maria Ann Sophia Lambell Kimmell)
Mary E. S. K[immell] Gray (child of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Frank Kimmell (child of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Gertrude C[olby] Wing (daughter-in-law of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Lester Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Mary G[ertrude] Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Rex [Reginald] Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Louise M[ildred] Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Eunice Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Frances E. Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Avarilla [van Riswick] Lambert (child of J. van Riswick)
Martina [van Riswick] Carr (child of J. van Riswick)
William W. Rapley
Margaret J. Stone
Daniel S. Evans
After her first husband's untimely death in 1893, she was married to John B. Wing on February 8, 1897 at Cameron, Clinton county, Missouri.
Gertrude K. Wing later moved to Southern California and became the eighth wife of James Yorgason, though at the time of their marriage he was living under the assumed name James Johnson. They were married in Los Angeles, California on May 18, 1913, and she became Gertrude K. Johnson.
After the sudden, total destruction of her husband's highly lucrative Los Angeles pigeon ranch, due to a freak flash flood in April 1914, the land on which the ranch stood was sold to the City of Los Angeles. Later, the land was covered with concrete when it became part of the Los Angeles River channel, a project which resulted after the widespread flooding of 1934.
The Johnsons then bought a 160-acre ranch located seven miles northwest of Lancaster, Los Angeles, California. However, her husband became quite ill due to adult onset diabetes, and they were not able to make the interest payments on the land. When her husband accidentally stepped on a nail, he thought to seek medical advice, but Gertrude Colby Johnson was a devout Christian Scientist and successfully prevented her husband from receiving medical treatment. The wound became infected, and gangrene set in. He became mortally ill with sepsis.
Gertrude Johnson attended to Mr. Yorgason/Johnson during his final illness, and his transfer to his son James Sanders Yorgason and grandson Robert Yorgason, who traveled from Wyoming in hopes of bringing him to the hot springs at Thermopolis, Wyoming. They could travel with him no further than the family home in Fountain Green, Utah just before his death due to septicemia.
After the death of her third husband, she lived near Lafayette Park in Los Angeles with her youngest child Frances "Babe" Rosenberg, and her son-in-law Herman Rosenberg.
She was a Christian Scientist, as was her daughter Babe Kimmell Rosenberg. Her death notice was published in the Los Angeles Times:
JOHNSON. Gertrude K. Johnson, beloved
mother of Mrs. Frances K. Rosenberg,
Mildred K. Bryner, Eunice K. Heater,
Gertrude K. Coolidge, and Lester C.
Kimmell.
Services Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the
Little Church of the Flowers.
Forest Lawn Mortuary in charge.
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Her grandchildren included Louise M. Kimmell and Jeanne Kimmell Reid; Marcella Coolidge; Elizabeth Bryner Grossman; and S. "Phil" Heater.
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She was fatally injured in an automobile/pedestrian accident. She died at the Georgia Street Receiving Hospital in Los Angeles, California, which was the emergency hospital in Los Angeles (founded 1868). A coroner's inquest was held.
On February 7, 1880, in Jackson county, Missouri, she was married to Andrew Jackson Kimmell; with him she was the mother of six:
Lester Colby Kimmell (1880-1981)
Mary Gertrude Kimmell Coolidge (1881-1977)
Reginald "Rex" Kimmell (1888-1915)
Louise Mildred Kimmell Bryner (1889-1968)
Eunice L. Kimmell Heater (1891-1982)
Frances E. Kimmell Rosenberg (1894-1990)
Along with all of her first husband's relatives, she was a part owner of The Washington Steamboat Company, Ltd., as evidenced by a ruling in U.S. v. Morris et al., Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, filed May 16, 1901, which added certain businesses and business owners as defendants in a case at equity with regard to any potential interest in certain wharves along the Potomac River. The court ruling listed the following owners of record for the Washington Steamboat Company, Ltd.:
William L[ambell] Kimmell (child of Abraham F. Kimmell and Maria Ann Sophia Lambell Kimmell)
Mary E. S. K[immell] Gray (child of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Frank Kimmell (child of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Gertrude C[olby] Wing (daughter-in-law of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Lester Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Mary G[ertrude] Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Rex [Reginald] Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Louise M[ildred] Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Eunice Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Frances E. Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Avarilla [van Riswick] Lambert (child of J. van Riswick)
Martina [van Riswick] Carr (child of J. van Riswick)
William W. Rapley
Margaret J. Stone
Daniel S. Evans
After her first husband's untimely death in 1893, she was married to John B. Wing on February 8, 1897 at Cameron, Clinton county, Missouri.
Gertrude K. Wing later moved to Southern California and became the eighth wife of James Yorgason, though at the time of their marriage he was living under the assumed name James Johnson. They were married in Los Angeles, California on May 18, 1913, and she became Gertrude K. Johnson.
After the sudden, total destruction of her husband's highly lucrative Los Angeles pigeon ranch, due to a freak flash flood in April 1914, the land on which the ranch stood was sold to the City of Los Angeles. Later, the land was covered with concrete when it became part of the Los Angeles River channel, a project which resulted after the widespread flooding of 1934.
The Johnsons then bought a 160-acre ranch located seven miles northwest of Lancaster, Los Angeles, California. However, her husband became quite ill due to adult onset diabetes, and they were not able to make the interest payments on the land. When her husband accidentally stepped on a nail, he thought to seek medical advice, but Gertrude Colby Johnson was a devout Christian Scientist and successfully prevented her husband from receiving medical treatment. The wound became infected, and gangrene set in. He became mortally ill with sepsis.
Gertrude Johnson attended to Mr. Yorgason/Johnson during his final illness, and his transfer to his son James Sanders Yorgason and grandson Robert Yorgason, who traveled from Wyoming in hopes of bringing him to the hot springs at Thermopolis, Wyoming. They could travel with him no further than the family home in Fountain Green, Utah just before his death due to septicemia.
After the death of her third husband, she lived near Lafayette Park in Los Angeles with her youngest child Frances "Babe" Rosenberg, and her son-in-law Herman Rosenberg.
She was a Christian Scientist, as was her daughter Babe Kimmell Rosenberg. Her death notice was published in the Los Angeles Times:
JOHNSON. Gertrude K. Johnson, beloved
mother of Mrs. Frances K. Rosenberg,
Mildred K. Bryner, Eunice K. Heater,
Gertrude K. Coolidge, and Lester C.
Kimmell.
Services Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the
Little Church of the Flowers.
Forest Lawn Mortuary in charge.
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Her grandchildren included Louise M. Kimmell and Jeanne Kimmell Reid; Marcella Coolidge; Elizabeth Bryner Grossman; and S. "Phil" Heater.
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She was fatally injured in an automobile/pedestrian accident. She died at the Georgia Street Receiving Hospital in Los Angeles, California, which was the emergency hospital in Los Angeles (founded 1868). A coroner's inquest was held.
She was the second child and eldest daughter of William Lester Colby and Elizabeth W. Randall Colby's six children. Her parents were born and raised in New York State, and married in Genesee county, New York State. Her mother was a graduate of Ingham University, in Le Roy, New York. Her family was relocating to Kansas when she was born in Missouri.
On February 7, 1880, in Jackson county, Missouri, she was married to Andrew Jackson Kimmell; with him she was the mother of six:
Lester Colby Kimmell (1880-1981)
Mary Gertrude Kimmell Coolidge (1881-1977)
Reginald "Rex" Kimmell (1888-1915)
Louise Mildred Kimmell Bryner (1889-1968)
Eunice L. Kimmell Heater (1891-1982)
Frances E. Kimmell Rosenberg (1894-1990)
Along with all of her first husband's relatives, she was a part owner of The Washington Steamboat Company, Ltd., as evidenced by a ruling in U.S. v. Morris et al., Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, filed May 16, 1901, which added certain businesses and business owners as defendants in a case at equity with regard to any potential interest in certain wharves along the Potomac River. The court ruling listed the following owners of record for the Washington Steamboat Company, Ltd.:
William L[ambell] Kimmell (child of Abraham F. Kimmell and Maria Ann Sophia Lambell Kimmell)
Mary E. S. K[immell] Gray (child of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Frank Kimmell (child of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Gertrude C[olby] Wing (daughter-in-law of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Lester Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Mary G[ertrude] Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Rex [Reginald] Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Louise M[ildred] Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Eunice Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Frances E. Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Avarilla [van Riswick] Lambert (child of J. van Riswick)
Martina [van Riswick] Carr (child of J. van Riswick)
William W. Rapley
Margaret J. Stone
Daniel S. Evans
After her first husband's untimely death in 1893, she was married to John B. Wing on February 8, 1897 at Cameron, Clinton county, Missouri.
Gertrude K. Wing later moved to Southern California and became the eighth wife of James Yorgason, though at the time of their marriage he was living under the assumed name James Johnson. They were married in Los Angeles, California on May 18, 1913, and she became Gertrude K. Johnson.
After the sudden, total destruction of her husband's highly lucrative Los Angeles pigeon ranch, due to a freak flash flood in April 1914, the land on which the ranch stood was sold to the City of Los Angeles. Later, the land was covered with concrete when it became part of the Los Angeles River channel, a project which resulted after the widespread flooding of 1934.
The Johnsons then bought a 160-acre ranch located seven miles northwest of Lancaster, Los Angeles, California. However, her husband became quite ill due to adult onset diabetes, and they were not able to make the interest payments on the land. When her husband accidentally stepped on a nail, he thought to seek medical advice, but Gertrude Colby Johnson was a devout Christian Scientist and successfully prevented her husband from receiving medical treatment. The wound became infected, and gangrene set in. He became mortally ill with sepsis.
Gertrude Johnson attended to Mr. Yorgason/Johnson during his final illness, and his transfer to his son James Sanders Yorgason and grandson Robert Yorgason, who traveled from Wyoming in hopes of bringing him to the hot springs at Thermopolis, Wyoming. They could travel with him no further than the family home in Fountain Green, Utah just before his death due to septicemia.
After the death of her third husband, she lived near Lafayette Park in Los Angeles with her youngest child Frances "Babe" Rosenberg, and her son-in-law Herman Rosenberg.
She was a Christian Scientist, as was her daughter Babe Kimmell Rosenberg. Her death notice was published in the Los Angeles Times:
JOHNSON. Gertrude K. Johnson, beloved
mother of Mrs. Frances K. Rosenberg,
Mildred K. Bryner, Eunice K. Heater,
Gertrude K. Coolidge, and Lester C.
Kimmell.
Services Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the
Little Church of the Flowers.
Forest Lawn Mortuary in charge.
- - -
Her grandchildren included Louise M. Kimmell and Jeanne Kimmell Reid; Marcella Coolidge; Elizabeth Bryner Grossman; and S. "Phil" Heater.
- - -
She was fatally injured in an automobile/pedestrian accident. She died at the Georgia Street Receiving Hospital in Los Angeles, California, which was the emergency hospital in Los Angeles (founded 1868). A coroner's inquest was held.
On February 7, 1880, in Jackson county, Missouri, she was married to Andrew Jackson Kimmell; with him she was the mother of six:
Lester Colby Kimmell (1880-1981)
Mary Gertrude Kimmell Coolidge (1881-1977)
Reginald "Rex" Kimmell (1888-1915)
Louise Mildred Kimmell Bryner (1889-1968)
Eunice L. Kimmell Heater (1891-1982)
Frances E. Kimmell Rosenberg (1894-1990)
Along with all of her first husband's relatives, she was a part owner of The Washington Steamboat Company, Ltd., as evidenced by a ruling in U.S. v. Morris et al., Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, filed May 16, 1901, which added certain businesses and business owners as defendants in a case at equity with regard to any potential interest in certain wharves along the Potomac River. The court ruling listed the following owners of record for the Washington Steamboat Company, Ltd.:
William L[ambell] Kimmell (child of Abraham F. Kimmell and Maria Ann Sophia Lambell Kimmell)
Mary E. S. K[immell] Gray (child of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Frank Kimmell (child of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Gertrude C[olby] Wing (daughter-in-law of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Lester Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Mary G[ertrude] Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Rex [Reginald] Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Louise M[ildred] Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Eunice Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Frances E. Kimmell (grandchild of A. and M.A.S.L. Kimmell)
Avarilla [van Riswick] Lambert (child of J. van Riswick)
Martina [van Riswick] Carr (child of J. van Riswick)
William W. Rapley
Margaret J. Stone
Daniel S. Evans
After her first husband's untimely death in 1893, she was married to John B. Wing on February 8, 1897 at Cameron, Clinton county, Missouri.
Gertrude K. Wing later moved to Southern California and became the eighth wife of James Yorgason, though at the time of their marriage he was living under the assumed name James Johnson. They were married in Los Angeles, California on May 18, 1913, and she became Gertrude K. Johnson.
After the sudden, total destruction of her husband's highly lucrative Los Angeles pigeon ranch, due to a freak flash flood in April 1914, the land on which the ranch stood was sold to the City of Los Angeles. Later, the land was covered with concrete when it became part of the Los Angeles River channel, a project which resulted after the widespread flooding of 1934.
The Johnsons then bought a 160-acre ranch located seven miles northwest of Lancaster, Los Angeles, California. However, her husband became quite ill due to adult onset diabetes, and they were not able to make the interest payments on the land. When her husband accidentally stepped on a nail, he thought to seek medical advice, but Gertrude Colby Johnson was a devout Christian Scientist and successfully prevented her husband from receiving medical treatment. The wound became infected, and gangrene set in. He became mortally ill with sepsis.
Gertrude Johnson attended to Mr. Yorgason/Johnson during his final illness, and his transfer to his son James Sanders Yorgason and grandson Robert Yorgason, who traveled from Wyoming in hopes of bringing him to the hot springs at Thermopolis, Wyoming. They could travel with him no further than the family home in Fountain Green, Utah just before his death due to septicemia.
After the death of her third husband, she lived near Lafayette Park in Los Angeles with her youngest child Frances "Babe" Rosenberg, and her son-in-law Herman Rosenberg.
She was a Christian Scientist, as was her daughter Babe Kimmell Rosenberg. Her death notice was published in the Los Angeles Times:
JOHNSON. Gertrude K. Johnson, beloved
mother of Mrs. Frances K. Rosenberg,
Mildred K. Bryner, Eunice K. Heater,
Gertrude K. Coolidge, and Lester C.
Kimmell.
Services Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the
Little Church of the Flowers.
Forest Lawn Mortuary in charge.
- - -
Her grandchildren included Louise M. Kimmell and Jeanne Kimmell Reid; Marcella Coolidge; Elizabeth Bryner Grossman; and S. "Phil" Heater.
- - -
She was fatally injured in an automobile/pedestrian accident. She died at the Georgia Street Receiving Hospital in Los Angeles, California, which was the emergency hospital in Los Angeles (founded 1868). A coroner's inquest was held.
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