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Thurtell and Related Families
Notes for Dora HENSLEY
The death certificate for Benjamin W. Thurtell shows the informant was
his wife, Dora Thurtell, and that they were living at 201 6th St.,
Wilmette, Cook County, Illinois, at the time of his death.
Her death certificate shows her name as Dora Hensley Thurtell and her
date and place of birth as October 9, 1860, in Vermont, Illinois. It
shows she had no Social Security number and that she had been living at
201 6th Street, Wilmette, New Trier Township, Cook County, Illinois. It
shows the place of death as 1011 Central, Wilmette, Cook County,
Illinois. Her father is shown as Dr. J. W. Hensley, born in Kentucky,
and her mother is unknown. The informant was Robert H. Smith, 2336 Marcy
Ave., Evanston, Illinois. She was buried at the local cemetery, Yates
City, Peoria County, Illinois.
The obituary for her on page 43 of the "Wilmette Life" on August 10,
1944, shows that she had been living at 201 Sixth Street, Wilmette, prior
to moving to the Wilmette Convalescent Home a few months before her
death. Funeral services were at Scott's Funeral Home in Wilmette and
conducted by Rev. Ross Cannon, pastor of the First Congregational Church,
on Friday, August 4, 1944. Internment was in Yates City, Illinois, on
August 5, 1944. The obituary lists her survivors as two sons, Robert
Hensley Smith, 2336 Marcy Avenue, Evanston; Arthur Hensley Smith,
Cambridge, Massachusetts; two sisters, Mrs. Edith T. Dalmar, Chicago, and
Mrs. Grace Higbee, Three Oaks, Michigan; two granddaughters, Miss Bettina
Smith and Mrs. W. R. Bernays, Cambridge, Massachusetts; one grandson,
Duncan L. Smith, and one great grandson. It shows she had been a
resident of Wilmette since 1922. She was a member of Woman's Club of
Wilmette, Daughters of the British Empire, and the First Congregational
Church of Wilmette and its Cozy Corner circle.
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