Joplin News Herald September 15, 1942, Page 10
FALL DOWN STEPS FATAL TO WOMAN
Mrs. Etta Belle Bliss, 60 years old, died at 11:30 o'clock last night at St. John's hospita 1 as the result of injuries received in a fall at her home, 812 Pennsylvania Avenue Saturday night.
Mrs. Bliss, who was a member of the Assembly of God church, was descending steps in front of her home at 7:30 o'clock that night on h6r, way to church. She stumbled and fell, suffering a broken right arm and broken back. She was paralyzed from the neck down. She had resided in Joplin 40 years.
Surviving are two sons, Charles Ray; of Compton, Calif., and William Ray, at home, a daughter, Mrs. Frankie Earhard, at home; two sisters, Mrs. Emma Zears of Pittsburg, Kan., and Mrs. Effie Neff, at home; four brothers, William , Jim, and Charles Tuggle, all f Neosho and Robert Tuggle of Illinois, and four grand children.
The body was received by the Parker-Hunsaker mortuary. Funeral arrangements will await this arrival of relatives from California.
Coroner R. W. Webster was scheduled to make an investigation this afternoon of the accident
Joplin News Herald September 15, 1942, Page 10
FALL DOWN STEPS FATAL TO WOMAN
Mrs. Etta Belle Bliss, 60 years old, died at 11:30 o'clock last night at St. John's hospita 1 as the result of injuries received in a fall at her home, 812 Pennsylvania Avenue Saturday night.
Mrs. Bliss, who was a member of the Assembly of God church, was descending steps in front of her home at 7:30 o'clock that night on h6r, way to church. She stumbled and fell, suffering a broken right arm and broken back. She was paralyzed from the neck down. She had resided in Joplin 40 years.
Surviving are two sons, Charles Ray; of Compton, Calif., and William Ray, at home, a daughter, Mrs. Frankie Earhard, at home; two sisters, Mrs. Emma Zears of Pittsburg, Kan., and Mrs. Effie Neff, at home; four brothers, William , Jim, and Charles Tuggle, all f Neosho and Robert Tuggle of Illinois, and four grand children.
The body was received by the Parker-Hunsaker mortuary. Funeral arrangements will await this arrival of relatives from California.
Coroner R. W. Webster was scheduled to make an investigation this afternoon of the accident
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