Individual Details
Dortha Mae SEYMOUR
(8 JAN 1923 - 16 SEP 1943)
Events
| Birth | 8 JAN 1923 | Rantoul, Franklin Co., KS | |||
| Death | 16 SEP 1943 | Kansas Hospital, Kansas City, Wyandotte Co., KS |  |  | |
| Burial | Princeton Cem., Princeton, Franklin Co., KS | | |||
| Occupation | a nurse | ||||
| Religion | Baptist |
Families
| Father | James Owen SEYMOUR II (1893 - 1981) |
| Mother | Fannie Mae HOYLE ( - ) |
| Sibling | Beth Nadine SEYMOUR (1920 - ) |
| Sibling | Harold Jay SEYMOUR (1921 - 1995) |
Notes
Death
Notes for DORTHA MAE SEYMOUR:
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Taken from a newspaper clipping
POLIO FATAL TO DORTHA MAE SEYMOUR
Dortha Mae SEYMOUR, 20, resident of Rantoul vicinity all her life, died early today in the University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City, Kansas. She was a graduate nurse employed at the State Hospital at Osawatomie. She became ill at Osawatomie with infantile paralysis September 7, and entered the Kansas City Hospital September 10.
Dortha Mae SEYMOUR was born at Rantoul January 8, 1923. Surviving relatives are father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. James O. SEYMOUR; mother Mrs. Mae Hoyle SEYMOUR, grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. SEYMOUR and Mr. and Mrs. J. E. HOYLE, and two half-brothers, Edgar W. and James O. SEYMOUR III, all of Rantoul; sister Mrs. Charles PETERS, Princeton and brother, Pvt. Harold J. SEYMOUR, Camp Haan, California.
The deceased was a member of the Baptist Church. The body was brought to the Lamb Funeral home today. Definite funeral arrangements await word from the brother.
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Taken from newspaper funeral notice
SEYMOUR --- Grave side funeral services for Dortha Mae SEYMOUR, 20, of Rantoul were held Monday in Princeton Cemetery. Rev. Roy E. Jones of the North Ottawa Baptist Church officiated. Misses Della and Nellie Welton, with Mrs. Russell Hoffman as organist, sang "There'll be no Disappointment in Heaven." Pallbearers were Bruce BLOOMER, Vernon BLOOMER, Morris SWANSON and Tom SEYMOUR.
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Taken from a newspaper notice
Miss SEYMOUR died Thursday in the University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City, Kansas, from infantile paralysis. Those from out of town attending the rites were Mr. and Mrs. E. L. STRATTON, Beth and Bob, Muncie; Mr. and Mrs. Fred SEYMOUR, Freddie Bob and Harriet SEYMOUR, Clifton; Mr. and Mrs. John E. HOYLE and Mrs. Mac H. SEYMOUR, Rantoul; Pvt. Harold J. SEYMOUR, Camp Haan, California; Mrs. Ethel POLLARD and Miss Vera POLLARD, Moberly, Mo; Mrs Mary McMANAMA, Mrs. Kate FARMER, Mrs. Laura CROSSWHITE, William H. McMANAMA and Roy McMANAMA.
Endnotes
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