Individual Details

Daily American Republic, Poplar Bluff, Missouri, Tuesday Evening, December 1, 1942, Page 3, Col. 7: Chronister Services To Be Held Tomorrow. Funeral services for Muriel Ellen Chronister, five year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Chronister of Fisk, will be held at the Rombauer church at 11 a.m. tomorrow with burial following in the Ham Town cemetery. The Rev. William Mangrom will officiate at the services to be held under the direction o the Marshall Shain Undertaking company. The child died at the Poplar Bluff Hospital at 5 p.m. Sunday. In addition to the parents, four brothers, Richard, Norman, Glenn and Carroll and two half brothers Hershal and Eugene Smith survive.

Missouri death certicate viewed on-line states she died of diptheria.

Birth	27 Jul 1937	Rombauer, Butler Co., Missouri
Death	29 Nov 1942	Poplar Bluff, Butler Co., Missouri
Burial

Father	John Davis Chronister (1893 - 1972)
Mother	Lattie D Potillo (1900 - 1991)
Sibling	Carroll D Chronister (1930 - 2012)