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Marguerite Ratcliffe

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Marguerite Ratcliffe

Birth
Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, USA
Death
5 May 1973 (aged 76)
Denver, City and County of Denver, Colorado, USA
Burial
Denver, City and County of Denver, Colorado, USA Add to Map
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Daughter of George McAfee RATCLIFFE Sr. and of Susie HETHERWICK Ratcliffe (both of whom are buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Pineville, Rapides, LA). She never married.
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Obituary taken from the Denver Post of 08 May 1973:

Marguerite Ratcliffe

Services for Marguerite Ratcliffe, 73, of 1200 St. Paul St., were Tuesday at Howard Mortuary. Cremation followed. She died Saturday at Life Center, 855 Ivy St., following a long illness.

She was born in 1900 in Alexandria, La., and moved as a child to Denver, where she remained. She was a graduate of Wolfe Hall and the then Manual Training High School. A fiction writer, she published stories of the West in national magazines. For a short period she taught school in Shell Creek, Wyo. She was also a legal secretary in Denver. She was a member of the Colorado Authors League, the Denver Women's Press Club and was active in the Republican party.

She is survived by a sister, Dorothy Ratcliffe, Amarillo, Tex.

Friends may contribute to the Cal Farley Boys Farm, in Amarillo.
Daughter of George McAfee RATCLIFFE Sr. and of Susie HETHERWICK Ratcliffe (both of whom are buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Pineville, Rapides, LA). She never married.
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Obituary taken from the Denver Post of 08 May 1973:

Marguerite Ratcliffe

Services for Marguerite Ratcliffe, 73, of 1200 St. Paul St., were Tuesday at Howard Mortuary. Cremation followed. She died Saturday at Life Center, 855 Ivy St., following a long illness.

She was born in 1900 in Alexandria, La., and moved as a child to Denver, where she remained. She was a graduate of Wolfe Hall and the then Manual Training High School. A fiction writer, she published stories of the West in national magazines. For a short period she taught school in Shell Creek, Wyo. She was also a legal secretary in Denver. She was a member of the Colorado Authors League, the Denver Women's Press Club and was active in the Republican party.

She is survived by a sister, Dorothy Ratcliffe, Amarillo, Tex.

Friends may contribute to the Cal Farley Boys Farm, in Amarillo.


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