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Son: Glenn O. McKenzie
GEORGE ORAL 'TOPSY' MCKENZIE
Topsy was born May 5th, 1910 to Balzora Jane McKenzie.
(NOTE: One mystery is who is his biological father?
The 1910 United States Federal Census lists Balzora as single and living in the household of her parents, James Day McKenzie and Nancy Ellen Sowder McKenzie. The date of that census was May 2nd, 1910.
Not that unwed women didn't have unexpected pregnancies back in those days, but for the most part, it just wasn't done. This is an exception, and it appears it didn't affect Balzora in the slightest.)
Topsy may have had a questionable start, but that didn't appear to deter him in any way.
Not much is known about his life, other than he completed the 7th grade and then stayed on the farm to help his mother.
I get the impression that George was a big man, six feet tall, with a big heart....but that was in a literal sense too.
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George started having health problems, he had high blood pressure, but he kept working to support his family. He was a delivery man for the Fridgidaire Appliance Company. He married Otta Alma Sears before 1934.
An article was published in the Lexington Herald Newspaper dating Wednesday, December 27, 1944, page 2:
Somerset Man Dies After Car Accident
"George McKenzie, 34, of Somerset, died at 8:10 o'clock last night at St. Joseph's Hospital as a result of injuries suffered in an automobile accident earlier in the day.
Patrolman William Way of the Georgetown Police Department said that last night McKenzie was injured when a car in which he was riding and which was driven by Claude Brown of Dayton, Ohio, struck a culvert shortly after 1 p.m. 12 miles north of Georgetown on U.S. Highway 25.
The Patrolman quoted Brown as saying that he fell asleep while driving. He was uninjured. Brown and McKenzie were employed by the same firm in the Ohio city and
were driving to Somerset, officers said.
McKenzie, who was first taken to the John Graves Ford Memorial Hospital in Georgetown, was later brought to Lexington."
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George's death certificate states that he had had some sort of surgical procedure
despite his hypertension; in the automobile accident he had suffered acute traumatic
injury to his chest along with traumatic abdominal hemorrhage. He also had a Pott's fracture (broken ankle). Unfortunately his blood pressure went through the roof when he was transferred to St. Joseph's Hospital in Lexington (260/150). All of these factors
contributed to his death.
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Son: Glenn O. McKenzie
GEORGE ORAL 'TOPSY' MCKENZIE
Topsy was born May 5th, 1910 to Balzora Jane McKenzie.
(NOTE: One mystery is who is his biological father?
The 1910 United States Federal Census lists Balzora as single and living in the household of her parents, James Day McKenzie and Nancy Ellen Sowder McKenzie. The date of that census was May 2nd, 1910.
Not that unwed women didn't have unexpected pregnancies back in those days, but for the most part, it just wasn't done. This is an exception, and it appears it didn't affect Balzora in the slightest.)
Topsy may have had a questionable start, but that didn't appear to deter him in any way.
Not much is known about his life, other than he completed the 7th grade and then stayed on the farm to help his mother.
I get the impression that George was a big man, six feet tall, with a big heart....but that was in a literal sense too.
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George started having health problems, he had high blood pressure, but he kept working to support his family. He was a delivery man for the Fridgidaire Appliance Company. He married Otta Alma Sears before 1934.
An article was published in the Lexington Herald Newspaper dating Wednesday, December 27, 1944, page 2:
Somerset Man Dies After Car Accident
"George McKenzie, 34, of Somerset, died at 8:10 o'clock last night at St. Joseph's Hospital as a result of injuries suffered in an automobile accident earlier in the day.
Patrolman William Way of the Georgetown Police Department said that last night McKenzie was injured when a car in which he was riding and which was driven by Claude Brown of Dayton, Ohio, struck a culvert shortly after 1 p.m. 12 miles north of Georgetown on U.S. Highway 25.
The Patrolman quoted Brown as saying that he fell asleep while driving. He was uninjured. Brown and McKenzie were employed by the same firm in the Ohio city and
were driving to Somerset, officers said.
McKenzie, who was first taken to the John Graves Ford Memorial Hospital in Georgetown, was later brought to Lexington."
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George's death certificate states that he had had some sort of surgical procedure
despite his hypertension; in the automobile accident he had suffered acute traumatic
injury to his chest along with traumatic abdominal hemorrhage. He also had a Pott's fracture (broken ankle). Unfortunately his blood pressure went through the roof when he was transferred to St. Joseph's Hospital in Lexington (260/150). All of these factors
contributed to his death.
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Son: Glenn O. McKenzie
GEORGE ORAL 'TOPSY' MCKENZIE
Topsy was born May 5th, 1910 to Balzora Jane McKenzie.
(NOTE: One mystery is who is his biological father?
The 1910 United States Federal Census lists Balzora as single and living in the household of her parents, James Day McKenzie and Nancy Ellen Sowder McKenzie. The date of that census was May 2nd, 1910.
Not that unwed women didn't have unexpected pregnancies back in those days, but for the most part, it just wasn't done. This is an exception, and it appears it didn't affect Balzora in the slightest.)
Topsy may have had a questionable start, but that didn't appear to deter him in any way.
Not much is known about his life, other than he completed the 7th grade and then stayed on the farm to help his mother.
I get the impression that George was a big man, six feet tall, with a big heart....but that was in a literal sense too.
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George started having health problems, he had high blood pressure, but he kept working to support his family. He was a delivery man for the Fridgidaire Appliance Company. He married Otta Alma Sears before 1934.
An article was published in the Lexington Herald Newspaper dating Wednesday, December 27, 1944, page 2:
Somerset Man Dies After Car Accident
"George McKenzie, 34, of Somerset, died at 8:10 o'clock last night at St. Joseph's Hospital as a result of injuries suffered in an automobile accident earlier in the day.
Patrolman William Way of the Georgetown Police Department said that last night McKenzie was injured when a car in which he was riding and which was driven by Claude Brown of Dayton, Ohio, struck a culvert shortly after 1 p.m. 12 miles north of Georgetown on U.S. Highway 25.
The Patrolman quoted Brown as saying that he fell asleep while driving. He was uninjured. Brown and McKenzie were employed by the same firm in the Ohio city and
were driving to Somerset, officers said.
McKenzie, who was first taken to the John Graves Ford Memorial Hospital in Georgetown, was later brought to Lexington."
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George's death certificate states that he had had some sort of surgical procedure
despite his hypertension; in the automobile accident he had suffered acute traumatic
injury to his chest along with traumatic abdominal hemorrhage. He also had a Pott's fracture (broken ankle). Unfortunately his blood pressure went through the roof when he was transferred to St. Joseph's Hospital in Lexington (260/150). All of these factors
contributed to his death.
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Son: Glenn O. McKenzie
GEORGE ORAL 'TOPSY' MCKENZIE
Topsy was born May 5th, 1910 to Balzora Jane McKenzie.
(NOTE: One mystery is who is his biological father?
The 1910 United States Federal Census lists Balzora as single and living in the household of her parents, James Day McKenzie and Nancy Ellen Sowder McKenzie. The date of that census was May 2nd, 1910.
Not that unwed women didn't have unexpected pregnancies back in those days, but for the most part, it just wasn't done. This is an exception, and it appears it didn't affect Balzora in the slightest.)
Topsy may have had a questionable start, but that didn't appear to deter him in any way.
Not much is known about his life, other than he completed the 7th grade and then stayed on the farm to help his mother.
I get the impression that George was a big man, six feet tall, with a big heart....but that was in a literal sense too.
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George started having health problems, he had high blood pressure, but he kept working to support his family. He was a delivery man for the Fridgidaire Appliance Company. He married Otta Alma Sears before 1934.
An article was published in the Lexington Herald Newspaper dating Wednesday, December 27, 1944, page 2:
Somerset Man Dies After Car Accident
"George McKenzie, 34, of Somerset, died at 8:10 o'clock last night at St. Joseph's Hospital as a result of injuries suffered in an automobile accident earlier in the day.
Patrolman William Way of the Georgetown Police Department said that last night McKenzie was injured when a car in which he was riding and which was driven by Claude Brown of Dayton, Ohio, struck a culvert shortly after 1 p.m. 12 miles north of Georgetown on U.S. Highway 25.
The Patrolman quoted Brown as saying that he fell asleep while driving. He was uninjured. Brown and McKenzie were employed by the same firm in the Ohio city and
were driving to Somerset, officers said.
McKenzie, who was first taken to the John Graves Ford Memorial Hospital in Georgetown, was later brought to Lexington."
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George's death certificate states that he had had some sort of surgical procedure
despite his hypertension; in the automobile accident he had suffered acute traumatic
injury to his chest along with traumatic abdominal hemorrhage. He also had a Pott's fracture (broken ankle). Unfortunately his blood pressure went through the roof when he was transferred to St. Joseph's Hospital in Lexington (260/150). All of these factors
contributed to his death.
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