Tephronia Stickel was born at Manlius, Bureau County, Ill., November 11, 1863. She passed to her eternal home at Kearney, Neb., January 19, 1954, at the age of 90 years, 2 months and 8 days.
After graduating from a country school and a teacher's institute, she began teaching at the age of 17. She taught five years in Illinois. In 1888 she came to Shickley on a visit and decided to remain in this neighborhood. Here, she taught two more years.
She and William E. Pumphrey were married September 13, 188?, at Shickley. To this marriage four children were born, two of them dying in infancy. The older daughter, Mrs. Neva Wallace and her daughter, Marilyn, died in 1929 as the result of an automobile accident. Mr. Pumphrey passed on June 22, 1943, at Geneva and a grandson, Richard Wallace, died in 1953.
The surviving relatives are a daughter, Mrs. Bernice Lancaster of Kearney; a sister, Mrs. Phena Skipton of Hastings; three grandsons, Dean Wallace of Omaha, "Jim" Lancaster of Milwaukee, Wis., "Bill" Lancaster, a student at the University of Nebraska, and a great-grandson, "Bob" Wallace of Champaign, Ill.
Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon, January 24, at the First Methodist Church in Geneva, where Mrs. Pumphrey had been a longtime member, by Dr. F.E. Pfoutz, minister. A quartet, composed of Miss Harriett Scott, Mrs. John Gewacke, Howard Hamilton and Edgar Miller, sang "Never Grow Old" and "Haven of Rest". Mrs. F.M. Holtz provided organ music. Pallbearers were Lyman Brooke, George DuBois, Lou Kennel, Claude Kimbrough, Jess Messman and Clyde Wilson. Interment was in the Geneva Cemetery.
The Nebraska Signal January 28th 1954 page 1.
After graduating from a country school and a teacher's institute, she began teaching at the age of 17. She taught five years in Illinois. In 1888 she came to Shickley on a visit and decided to remain in this neighborhood. Here, she taught two more years.
She and William E. Pumphrey were married September 13, 188?, at Shickley. To this marriage four children were born, two of them dying in infancy. The older daughter, Mrs. Neva Wallace and her daughter, Marilyn, died in 1929 as the result of an automobile accident. Mr. Pumphrey passed on June 22, 1943, at Geneva and a grandson, Richard Wallace, died in 1953.
The surviving relatives are a daughter, Mrs. Bernice Lancaster of Kearney; a sister, Mrs. Phena Skipton of Hastings; three grandsons, Dean Wallace of Omaha, "Jim" Lancaster of Milwaukee, Wis., "Bill" Lancaster, a student at the University of Nebraska, and a great-grandson, "Bob" Wallace of Champaign, Ill.
Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon, January 24, at the First Methodist Church in Geneva, where Mrs. Pumphrey had been a longtime member, by Dr. F.E. Pfoutz, minister. A quartet, composed of Miss Harriett Scott, Mrs. John Gewacke, Howard Hamilton and Edgar Miller, sang "Never Grow Old" and "Haven of Rest". Mrs. F.M. Holtz provided organ music. Pallbearers were Lyman Brooke, George DuBois, Lou Kennel, Claude Kimbrough, Jess Messman and Clyde Wilson. Interment was in the Geneva Cemetery.
The Nebraska Signal January 28th 1954 page 1.
Tephronia Stickel was born at Manlius, Bureau County, Ill., November 11, 1863. She passed to her eternal home at Kearney, Neb., January 19, 1954, at the age of 90 years, 2 months and 8 days.
After graduating from a country school and a teacher's institute, she began teaching at the age of 17. She taught five years in Illinois. In 1888 she came to Shickley on a visit and decided to remain in this neighborhood. Here, she taught two more years.
She and William E. Pumphrey were married September 13, 188?, at Shickley. To this marriage four children were born, two of them dying in infancy. The older daughter, Mrs. Neva Wallace and her daughter, Marilyn, died in 1929 as the result of an automobile accident. Mr. Pumphrey passed on June 22, 1943, at Geneva and a grandson, Richard Wallace, died in 1953.
The surviving relatives are a daughter, Mrs. Bernice Lancaster of Kearney; a sister, Mrs. Phena Skipton of Hastings; three grandsons, Dean Wallace of Omaha, "Jim" Lancaster of Milwaukee, Wis., "Bill" Lancaster, a student at the University of Nebraska, and a great-grandson, "Bob" Wallace of Champaign, Ill.
Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon, January 24, at the First Methodist Church in Geneva, where Mrs. Pumphrey had been a longtime member, by Dr. F.E. Pfoutz, minister. A quartet, composed of Miss Harriett Scott, Mrs. John Gewacke, Howard Hamilton and Edgar Miller, sang "Never Grow Old" and "Haven of Rest". Mrs. F.M. Holtz provided organ music. Pallbearers were Lyman Brooke, George DuBois, Lou Kennel, Claude Kimbrough, Jess Messman and Clyde Wilson. Interment was in the Geneva Cemetery.
The Nebraska Signal January 28th 1954 page 1.
After graduating from a country school and a teacher's institute, she began teaching at the age of 17. She taught five years in Illinois. In 1888 she came to Shickley on a visit and decided to remain in this neighborhood. Here, she taught two more years.
She and William E. Pumphrey were married September 13, 188?, at Shickley. To this marriage four children were born, two of them dying in infancy. The older daughter, Mrs. Neva Wallace and her daughter, Marilyn, died in 1929 as the result of an automobile accident. Mr. Pumphrey passed on June 22, 1943, at Geneva and a grandson, Richard Wallace, died in 1953.
The surviving relatives are a daughter, Mrs. Bernice Lancaster of Kearney; a sister, Mrs. Phena Skipton of Hastings; three grandsons, Dean Wallace of Omaha, "Jim" Lancaster of Milwaukee, Wis., "Bill" Lancaster, a student at the University of Nebraska, and a great-grandson, "Bob" Wallace of Champaign, Ill.
Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon, January 24, at the First Methodist Church in Geneva, where Mrs. Pumphrey had been a longtime member, by Dr. F.E. Pfoutz, minister. A quartet, composed of Miss Harriett Scott, Mrs. John Gewacke, Howard Hamilton and Edgar Miller, sang "Never Grow Old" and "Haven of Rest". Mrs. F.M. Holtz provided organ music. Pallbearers were Lyman Brooke, George DuBois, Lou Kennel, Claude Kimbrough, Jess Messman and Clyde Wilson. Interment was in the Geneva Cemetery.
The Nebraska Signal January 28th 1954 page 1.
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