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Letha Lourania <I>Cox</I> McGreevy

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Letha Lourania Cox McGreevy

Birth
Sylvia, Reno County, Kansas, USA
Death
12 Apr 1977 (aged 82)
Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Tippecanoe Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
Area WWI, Section South Central, Row U, Grave 45
Memorial ID
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Lethe spelled her own name as "Letha." Some relatives say her middle name is spelled Louraney.

Mrs. Letha Lorene Cox McGreevy, 82, died in Indiana Veterans Home Hospital at 5:15 a.m. Tuesday. She had been a resident of the home several years and hospitalized three weeks. Born in Turon, Kansas, she was reared in the Ash Grove community but spent most of her life in the Lafayette area. In 1911 she was married to William Frederick "Tom" McGreevy. He was a drayman before his death in 1951. Mrs. McGreevy was a member of Grace United Methodist Church, VFW, Post 1154 Auxilliary, Royal Neighbors of America, and Triumph Rebekah Lodge. She was a Gray Lady at St. Elizabeth Hospital a number of years. Surviving are two sons, William Jesse McGreevy of Lafayette and John A. McGreevy of Danville, Ill, one stepdaughter, Mrs. Eva B. Speer, Lafayette, three sisters, Mrs. Mildred Rayman of Lafayette, Mrs. Sadie Ames of Miller, S. D., Mrs. E. A. (Dora)Petterson of Olympia, Wash. and one brother, Alfred L. Cox of Cosmopolitan, Wash.
Lethe spelled her own name as "Letha." Some relatives say her middle name is spelled Louraney.

Mrs. Letha Lorene Cox McGreevy, 82, died in Indiana Veterans Home Hospital at 5:15 a.m. Tuesday. She had been a resident of the home several years and hospitalized three weeks. Born in Turon, Kansas, she was reared in the Ash Grove community but spent most of her life in the Lafayette area. In 1911 she was married to William Frederick "Tom" McGreevy. He was a drayman before his death in 1951. Mrs. McGreevy was a member of Grace United Methodist Church, VFW, Post 1154 Auxilliary, Royal Neighbors of America, and Triumph Rebekah Lodge. She was a Gray Lady at St. Elizabeth Hospital a number of years. Surviving are two sons, William Jesse McGreevy of Lafayette and John A. McGreevy of Danville, Ill, one stepdaughter, Mrs. Eva B. Speer, Lafayette, three sisters, Mrs. Mildred Rayman of Lafayette, Mrs. Sadie Ames of Miller, S. D., Mrs. E. A. (Dora)Petterson of Olympia, Wash. and one brother, Alfred L. Cox of Cosmopolitan, Wash.


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