Florence had an out-of-wedlock child named Clare in 1897 with Thomas Bock/Back when he was 20 and she was 18.
Married Moses DeRocher, Jr., Oct 7, 1902 in Long Prairie, Minnesota. He adopted Clare and they had three more children.
Brainerd Dispatch February 10, 1975:
Mrs. DeRocher
Dies At Hospital
Mrs. Florence C. DeRocher, 94, of 612 Kingwood, died this morning at St. Joseph's Hospital.
She was born in Long Prairie Sept. 18, 1880, and had resided in Brainerd for 55 years. She was a member of St. Francis Catholic Church.
Mrs. DeRocher is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Clare VanEssen and Miss Edith DeRocher, both of Brainerd; five grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren, a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Webster of Los Angeles, Calif.
She was preceded in death by two sons.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at St. Francis Church. The Rev. Dennis McEntry will officiate with interment in Evergreen Cemetery.
Friends may call at Nelson-Doran Funeral Home beginning Tuesday noon. A parish rosary will be held at the funeral home at 8 p.m. Tuesday.
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Baptismal records show she was born in 1878, not 1880.
Florence had an out-of-wedlock child named Clare in 1897 with Thomas Bock/Back when he was 20 and she was 18.
Married Moses DeRocher, Jr., Oct 7, 1902 in Long Prairie, Minnesota. He adopted Clare and they had three more children.
Brainerd Dispatch February 10, 1975:
Mrs. DeRocher
Dies At Hospital
Mrs. Florence C. DeRocher, 94, of 612 Kingwood, died this morning at St. Joseph's Hospital.
She was born in Long Prairie Sept. 18, 1880, and had resided in Brainerd for 55 years. She was a member of St. Francis Catholic Church.
Mrs. DeRocher is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Clare VanEssen and Miss Edith DeRocher, both of Brainerd; five grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren, a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Webster of Los Angeles, Calif.
She was preceded in death by two sons.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at St. Francis Church. The Rev. Dennis McEntry will officiate with interment in Evergreen Cemetery.
Friends may call at Nelson-Doran Funeral Home beginning Tuesday noon. A parish rosary will be held at the funeral home at 8 p.m. Tuesday.
[ end of obituary ]
Baptismal records show she was born in 1878, not 1880.
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