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Bridget Geneva <I>Bunce</I> McKendry

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Bridget Geneva Bunce McKendry

Birth
Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, USA
Death
25 Jun 1927 (aged 72)
Baring, Knox County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Edina, Knox County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
Plot
Row 5
Memorial ID
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MO d/c 18705

DEATH OF BARING WOMAN
Mrs. Bridget McKendry, 72, Died of Apoplexy Saturday Night At Her Home Near There.

Mrs. Bridget McKendry, 72 years old, died Saturday night at her home near Baring of apoplexy after a week's illness.
Funeral services were conducted at 9:30 Monday morning by the Rev. Father Owens at St Aloysius Church in Baring. The church was filled to its full capacity. Burial was in St. Joseph's old Catholic cemetery in Edina beside the graves of her husband, Bernard McKendry, and three children.
F our children survive: Miss Catharine and Basil McKendry at home and Mrs. T. A. Doyle and Mrs. Jess Grainger of Baring. Mrs. McKendry also leaves four grandchildren and a sister and two brothers, Miss Anna Bunce and James A. Bunce of near Baring, with whom she lived, and M. P. Bunce of Quincy.
As Bridget Geneva Bunce, a daughter of John and Catharine Kelly Bunce, both natives of Ireland, Mrs. McKendry was born in Xenia, Ohio, Dec. 15, 1854. Her parents came to Knox County when she was 5 years old and settled on the homestead, within a few miles of where she died and in which neighborhood she passed the rest of her life.
She was married to Mr. McKendry in St. Joseph's Church in Edina March 1, 1881, by the Rev. John Fitzgerald. They went to live on the farm now owned by Joseph Rody, where they resided until Mr. McKendry's death May 20, 1898. Shortly afterward Mrs. McKendry and her small children went to live with her brother, at whose home death came. Mrs. McKendry was the mother of seven children, John Edwin, William and Bernadette having died in early youth.
The Edina Sentinel, Edina, Missouri • Thu, Jun 30, 1927, Page 1, Column 2
MO d/c 18705

DEATH OF BARING WOMAN
Mrs. Bridget McKendry, 72, Died of Apoplexy Saturday Night At Her Home Near There.

Mrs. Bridget McKendry, 72 years old, died Saturday night at her home near Baring of apoplexy after a week's illness.
Funeral services were conducted at 9:30 Monday morning by the Rev. Father Owens at St Aloysius Church in Baring. The church was filled to its full capacity. Burial was in St. Joseph's old Catholic cemetery in Edina beside the graves of her husband, Bernard McKendry, and three children.
F our children survive: Miss Catharine and Basil McKendry at home and Mrs. T. A. Doyle and Mrs. Jess Grainger of Baring. Mrs. McKendry also leaves four grandchildren and a sister and two brothers, Miss Anna Bunce and James A. Bunce of near Baring, with whom she lived, and M. P. Bunce of Quincy.
As Bridget Geneva Bunce, a daughter of John and Catharine Kelly Bunce, both natives of Ireland, Mrs. McKendry was born in Xenia, Ohio, Dec. 15, 1854. Her parents came to Knox County when she was 5 years old and settled on the homestead, within a few miles of where she died and in which neighborhood she passed the rest of her life.
She was married to Mr. McKendry in St. Joseph's Church in Edina March 1, 1881, by the Rev. John Fitzgerald. They went to live on the farm now owned by Joseph Rody, where they resided until Mr. McKendry's death May 20, 1898. Shortly afterward Mrs. McKendry and her small children went to live with her brother, at whose home death came. Mrs. McKendry was the mother of seven children, John Edwin, William and Bernadette having died in early youth.
The Edina Sentinel, Edina, Missouri • Thu, Jun 30, 1927, Page 1, Column 2


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