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Leah <I>Kimbler</I> Armstrong

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Leah Kimbler Armstrong

Birth
Carter County, Kentucky, USA
Death
25 Apr 1975 (aged 75)
Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Vanceburg, Lewis County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
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Leah Kimbler was the daughter of Joseph Kimbler and Sarah Alice Rigsby Kimbler. She married James Elmer "Shorty" Armstrong on June 5, 1924 in Vanceburg, Lewis Co, KY and they had seven children. She also had a daughter prior to this marriage, Ola McGlone, whose father was Arvil McGlone and who died at birth in Carter County.

She worked for a time at the old L.V. Marks button factory in Vanceburg, and also babysat for old Dr. Esham's family. In her later years she lived in a two-room home at the curve at the bottom of Town Branch Hill where it intersects with Fairlane Drive. She loved to go fishing, chew tobacco and watch the roller derby and wrestling. Her grandchildren enjoyed her use of "old-timey terms;" she always called the couch "the davenport" and her slip (undergarment) was her "petticoat."

She suffered cardiac arrest in her little home and died in the early morning hours of Apr 25, 1975 at a hospital in Portsmouth, OH.
Leah Kimbler was the daughter of Joseph Kimbler and Sarah Alice Rigsby Kimbler. She married James Elmer "Shorty" Armstrong on June 5, 1924 in Vanceburg, Lewis Co, KY and they had seven children. She also had a daughter prior to this marriage, Ola McGlone, whose father was Arvil McGlone and who died at birth in Carter County.

She worked for a time at the old L.V. Marks button factory in Vanceburg, and also babysat for old Dr. Esham's family. In her later years she lived in a two-room home at the curve at the bottom of Town Branch Hill where it intersects with Fairlane Drive. She loved to go fishing, chew tobacco and watch the roller derby and wrestling. Her grandchildren enjoyed her use of "old-timey terms;" she always called the couch "the davenport" and her slip (undergarment) was her "petticoat."

She suffered cardiac arrest in her little home and died in the early morning hours of Apr 25, 1975 at a hospital in Portsmouth, OH.


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