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Fort Scott Daily Tribune-Monitor,
Fort Scott, Kansas,
Saturday, 13 Jan. 1917, Page-1,
MRS. RICHARDS FUNERAL
Will Be Held Tomorrow Afternoon at 1:30 o'Clock from the Home, 102 South Hill Street,
Funeral services of Mrs. Florence Richards, who died Thursday of pneumonia at Merch Hospital, will be held Sunday, January 14th, at 1:30 p.m. at the family home, 102 South Hill street, conducted by Rev. W. L. Morris of the Grace M. E. Church, of which she was a member. Interment will take place at Centerville cemetery, in which neighborhood the family formerly resided.
Florence Almira Richards was born on Nov. 10, 1856. She came to Fort Scott with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Manning, when fifteen years of age. On June 14, 1876, she was married to D. W. Richards, who is left to mourn her death. She is also survived by five children as follows; Charles M. of Fort Scott, Bert of Gallup, New Mexico, Mrs. Ida R. Anderson, Prescott, Ariz., Clifford R., of El Paso, Texas, and Mrs. Edith A. Clark of this city. Her two sisters, Mrs. Alice Henley and Mrs. Ida Moody and her mother, Mrs. W. W. Smith, reside in the state of Washington. Mrs. Richards was ill only four days, though her health had been failing for the past five years. Intimate friends of the family are invited to attend the services.
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Newspapers.com,
Fort Scott Daily Tribune-Monitor,
Fort Scott, Kansas,
Monday, 15 Jan. 1917, Page-5,
The Funeral services for the late Mrs. Florence Richards, was held from the home, 120 South Hill street, yesterday afternoon, conducted by W. D. Morris of the Grace M. E. Church, The pall bearers were, J.B. Gould, H. J. Broderick, C. J. Heitz, Will Fortney, A. M. Johnson, and G. E. Kinder, Interment was made at Centerville Cemetery.
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∼Florence, and her husband, Dwight, had five children, Charles, Bert, Ida Belle, Cliff, and Edith Almira.