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Belle Hicks <I>Purvis</I> Gaskill

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Belle Hicks Purvis Gaskill

Birth
Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, USA
Death
14 Mar 2005 (aged 83)
Amherst, Erie County, New York, USA
Burial
Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA Add to Map
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From Buffalo News, The (NY) Date: March 17, 2005 Edition: FINAL Page: B4 Record Number: 0503170119

Belle Purvis Gaskill of Clarence, a retired teacher's aide in the Williamsville Central School District, died Monday in Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, Amherst, after a brief illness.

She was born in NC, the middle daughter of Soverign Paschall Purvis and Belle Hicks Purvis. She earned a bachelor's degree in home economics from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She met and married Glenn Turner Gaskill of Buffalo while he was stationed in Charlotte, N.C. She moved to Buffalo with him after he was discharged from military service in 1946. Mrs. Gaskill was a member of Athor Temple 19, Daughters of the Nile. She also was a member of Chapter E, P.E.O. Sisterhood. Surviving, in addition to her husband, are two daughters; a son; her two sisters, Mary Elizabeth Finlator of Raleigh and Martha Dell Hudson of Salisbury; and five grandchildren. Services were at Beach-Tuyn Funeral Home, Williamsville. Burial was in Forest Lawn.
From Buffalo News, The (NY) Date: March 17, 2005 Edition: FINAL Page: B4 Record Number: 0503170119

Belle Purvis Gaskill of Clarence, a retired teacher's aide in the Williamsville Central School District, died Monday in Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, Amherst, after a brief illness.

She was born in NC, the middle daughter of Soverign Paschall Purvis and Belle Hicks Purvis. She earned a bachelor's degree in home economics from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She met and married Glenn Turner Gaskill of Buffalo while he was stationed in Charlotte, N.C. She moved to Buffalo with him after he was discharged from military service in 1946. Mrs. Gaskill was a member of Athor Temple 19, Daughters of the Nile. She also was a member of Chapter E, P.E.O. Sisterhood. Surviving, in addition to her husband, are two daughters; a son; her two sisters, Mary Elizabeth Finlator of Raleigh and Martha Dell Hudson of Salisbury; and five grandchildren. Services were at Beach-Tuyn Funeral Home, Williamsville. Burial was in Forest Lawn.


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