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Thanks to contributor, Dennis Stephens (#48479779), for the following:
Obituary (Clarence (MO) Courier, Nov. 24, 1960)- Mrs. Mona Brainerd, 85, most of whose life was spent in the Duncans Bridge community, died Sunday at Woodland Hospital in Moberly. She had been a patient there for three weeks. She was born in Macon County near Woodville, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Alexander. In 1918 she was married to Dr. Z. Brainerd, who died six weeks later in the first flu epidemic. Mrs. Brainerd was a member of the Monroe Chapel church. She began teaching school at the age of 16 at the Woodville school. Her first year she taught 75 pupils. Later she was employed for seven years at the Duncans Bridge bank after which she worked in the Bureau of Vital Statistics at Jefferson City. She is survived by one brother, Robert Alexander of near Duncans Bridge, and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock by Rev. W. C. Hern at the Monroe Chapel Methodist Church at Duncans Bridge and interment was in the Phillips Cemetery.
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Thanks to contributor, Dennis Stephens (#48479779), for the following:
Obituary (Clarence (MO) Courier, Nov. 24, 1960)- Mrs. Mona Brainerd, 85, most of whose life was spent in the Duncans Bridge community, died Sunday at Woodland Hospital in Moberly. She had been a patient there for three weeks. She was born in Macon County near Woodville, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Alexander. In 1918 she was married to Dr. Z. Brainerd, who died six weeks later in the first flu epidemic. Mrs. Brainerd was a member of the Monroe Chapel church. She began teaching school at the age of 16 at the Woodville school. Her first year she taught 75 pupils. Later she was employed for seven years at the Duncans Bridge bank after which she worked in the Bureau of Vital Statistics at Jefferson City. She is survived by one brother, Robert Alexander of near Duncans Bridge, and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock by Rev. W. C. Hern at the Monroe Chapel Methodist Church at Duncans Bridge and interment was in the Phillips Cemetery.
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