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General Source: S4Page: p. 51
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Source for: Mary Ellen Brown, 27 Sep 1852 - 10 Mar 1913
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General Source: S4Page: p. 51
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Source for: Mildred Bernice Tyner, 4 Jun 1905 - 19 Mar 2003
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Death source: S99Text: Date of Birth: June 4, 1905. Date of death: March 19, 2003, Phoenix, Arizona. Funeral Service: 2 p.m., Monday, March 24, 2003. A. L. Moore Grimshaw Bethany Chapel, 710 West Bethany Home Road, Phoenix, Arizona. Officiant Rev. James Ryna. Entombment: Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Encanto Mausoleum, 2300 West Van Buren, Phoenix, Arizona. Casketbearers: Jim Allison, Steve Cheuvront, Willard Hoffman, Neal Hancock, Mark Duran, Dr. Dallas Long.
Date: 24 Mar 2003
Death source: S100Page: p. B6
Text: Mildred "Bea" Davis, 97, of Phoenix, AZ, passed away on march 19, 2003. Mrs. Davis was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was preceded in death by her husband, E. O. Davis; son, W. T. Allison; brother, J. P. Tyner. Survivors include step-daughter Lynn Wright, Tempe; daughter-in-law, Peggy Allison, Scottsdale; sister, Connie Foster, Phoenix; grandchildren, Jim Allison, Prescott, Donna Allison, Phoenix, Vicki Allison, Scottsdale, Mallory Hoffman, Chandler, Myra Foster, Woodland, CO, Mary Duran, Phoenix; eight great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. Funeral service, Monday, March 24, 2003, 2:00 p.m., A. L. Moore Grimshaw Bethany Chapel, 710 W. Bethany Hone Road, Phx, AZ. Entombment following at Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery. www.almooregrimshaw.com.
Date: 22 Mar 2003
Death source: S101Text: From: Judith Rittenhouse [mailto:jrittenhouse@cox.net] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 5:25 PM To: Thomas W. Tucker; Susan L. Griffith; Molly Lamb; April Tucker Subject: Aunt Bernice Tyner Davis Aunt Bernice's granddaughter Vicki called me today for the first time ever so I knew it wasn't good. Aunt Bernice died yesterday at home in bed is my understanding. The funeral will be on Monday at 2 p.m. at the Grimshaw Mortuary; there will be no viewing. It's at 710 Bethany Home Road, near 7th Ave. and Bethany Home in Phoenix. She will be buried at the Greenwood Cemetery on Van Buren and 27th Avenue. Vicki said she has always enjoyed the life story booklet I put together about Connie and Bernice and has given that to the pastor to use for the service. Belle loves to help me type. It is so hard having a dog trying to chew your fingers and who loves to put her paws on the space bar. She quit typing a lot sooner than usual. Now she's drapped with her weight over my right arm while I type. She is a good reminder that life goes on. I thought I'd send a lovely floral arrangement from all of us. Just let me know if you don't want to be included--in case you want to do your own or whatever. I'll order it Sat. morning. Love, Mom/Aunt Judy
Date: 20 Mar 2003
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Source for: Sarah Corinne Tyner, 17 May 1908 - 10 Sep 2005
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General Source: S60Note: Susan Lamb Griffith believes the sister that raised Jones Houston Lamb was his oldest sister,
Text: Connie remembers that her father had a boy to take care of the manure and the potatoes. Her sister Bernice was holding J.P. as Connie and the helper were working on the potatoes. All of a sudden, one of the sideboards fell on Connie and the helper, causing him to fall on Connie and break her hip. She was about four or five years old then. Bernice and J.P. each got a mouthful of manure while Connie and the helper got potatoes. Their mother would put apples on the roof of the barn to dry and make great apple pies later. Connie lived in Spring Grove as a child. She can remember her Papa's first car. He was driving home in it while a friend was reading the instruction manual. They moved to Paragould on Hunt St. first and then later to Court St. Connie's father, Henry Virgil Tyner, was a partner of Dr. Ellis Lamb's in Oklahoma for a while. Both Henry Virgil and Jones Houston Lamb attended the University of Kentucky. Someone in Walcott sent Jones money to help him finish his semester when he was out of money. Back then, the doctors would go to school for a year and then come home to practice for a year and then return to medical school. Connie believes the sister that raised Jones after his mother died was the mother of Edgar C. Judith cannot find an Edgar C. as a child of any of Jones' sisters.
Date: 20 Oct 2004
General Source: S102Text: E-mail to Sonja Tucker, April Tucker, Lt. Col. Thomas Tucker, Carola Tucker, Molly Lamb, and Susan Lamb Griffith:
Sonja has to have a paper on Wednesday with stories of her ancestors. I sent her two last night and thought maybe I should send this today. I think you’ll all enjoy this because it’s kind of “new” news. I just looked up my relationship to Sarah Corrine Tyner and it is 1st cousin 1 time removed. Since she was older than my father who was her first cousin, out of respect as they do in the South, Tom, April, and I always called her “Aunt Connie” and still do.
Just so you’ll know. I read a cute blurb about her and called to chat with her this morning. The Greene County Historical and Genealogical Quarterly for Fall 1993 has an article titled “Random Thoughts about Growing up in Paragould : Some of the Things that I Remember” by W. A. Yantis. On page 135 he says, “There were lots of pretty girls in school. Among the prettiest, in my opinion, were Pauline McDermott, Bess Meiser, Imogene Sprinkle, Chonoy Rogers, and Theodosia Todd. Corrine Tyner and Norenne May, candidates for swimsuit competition. Both of them really stacked.
“Our favorite hangouts were Chappels Confectionery, Evans Fountain anad Grill, Lamb-Garners, Fisher Drug, and Oakwood Sandwich Shop. . .Thompson’s Drug Store, later Kirby’s and Lackey’s, across the street, catered to the grown-up crowd and were just as pleased not to have the teenage group. There was no religious biogotry in Paragould when I was a boy. I didn’t even know Morris Rosenthal was a Jew before I got out of high school. . ."
I (Judith) called Aunt Connie today because it tickled me that she had been in a swimsuit competition. She just thought she was always fat and had forgotten that once she was in a beauty contest and not fat. She said she did have a really good figure back then but had forgotten that over the years. She is 97 years old now and just diagnosed with diabetes. She loves her pies and sweets and it’s very hard on her to change now. She says she can’t have white bread or potatoes. I don’t know what April and I would do with- out our breads and potatoes, though I usually eat whole grain or mixed grain breads. I like Idaho potatoes just about any way except raw; our Mother Elizabeth R. Lamb even liked them raw.
Lamb-Garners Drug Store mentioned briefly here was half owned by our grandfather Dr. Jones Houston Lamb. I had wondered if he were the Lamb and Aunt Connie said he was. I also wanted to confirm a story I had heard about Paragould since this article says the author was aware of no religious bigotry in Paragould. Aunt Connie said what Grandmoie had told me was true. There was no religious bigotry because they wouldn’t let any colored people into Paragould. If a black person came to Paragould, citizens there put them back on the next train and told them to get out of town and stay out. That was true even in the 1960’s when I was interviewing Grandmoie about her life. So they virtually had no blacks—so much for no religious bigotry. They could live in Jonesboro, but not in Paragould. Some must have lived out in the country because Aunt Connie remembers one of the hotel restaurants had colored cooks. One of their daughters would down the alley to Aunt Connie’s when she was around eight years old. Aunt Connie would read to the little girl. Lamb-Garner Drug Store also had a colored fellow to clean up for them. But they didn’t live in town. . .Hope you had fun reading this. Love to you all, Grandmere/Mom/Aunt Judy
General Source: S103General Source: S104Text: E-mailed on 21 Sep 2005 : Hi Susan, April, Tom, Carola and Molly and Jared, Finally some time to tell you about Aunt Connie’s funeral. First I’ll type up the obituary.
“The Arizona Republic, September 14, 2005: Connie T. Foster, Born Wynne, Arkansas, May 17th, 1909 (DO NOT USE THIS YEAR; should have been 1908), leaving this earth, in her sleep, at home on September 10th, 2005. Connie was an educator, having been a teacher and later an administrator in the Phoenix Isaac School District from 1946 until her retirement in 1974. She was an avid genealogist and bridge player member of the Colonial Dames and the D.A.R. She leaves one son Dallas C. Long III MD and his wife, Suzanne, of Whitefish, Montana, four grandchildren, Kristen Todd of Phoenix, Kelly Nordell of Urbandale, Iowa, Karin Johnson of rancho Palos Verdes, California and Ian Long of Sacramento, California. In addition she leaves 9 great-grandchildren and her son’s first wife, Barbara Long of Costa Mesa, California. Her first husband, Dallas C. Long Jr., her second husband, Vernon Foster, preceded her in death. Memorial services will be held at Bethany Bible Church, 6060 North 7th Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona, at 2 PM September 15. Her legacy also includes the thousands of children that she helped educate. Arrangements entrusted to A. L. Moore Grimshaw Bethany Chapel.”
BIRTH YEAR: On 28 September 2004 Connie told Judith Rittenhouse that she had not received a birth certificate when she was born, nor had her sister Bernice. At some point the sisters each needed one and Connie's came back wrong, starting she was born in 1909. They didn't know they could change it and didn't do anything about it. She decided to set the record straight after all these years. She was born May 17, 1908.
Judith’s diary:
September 10: When I played my messages on my phone. I got word from Judy who took care of her that Aunt Connie had passed away a little earlier that afternoon. Sad news.
September 11: Judy, the caregiver for Bernice & Connie, told me about Connie’s death. I think I sent that in an e-mail to my family so it’s in my loose leaf journal.
September 13: Kristen called me to make sure I had been contacted about the death of her grandmother Connie Foster. When I told her Judy had called and told me about her really trying time. .
Sept. 15: Sarah Corrine “Connie” Tyner Long Foster—memorial service today was held at Bethany Bible Church, 6060 N. 7th Ave., Phoenix, AZ, at 2 p.m. The Officiant was Dr. William O. Smith. . . Dal’s mom Connie and my mother Elizabeth used to push us in our buggies together for afternoon walks. Vicki, Aunt Bernice’s granddaughter thanked me for all the genealogy I had done for their family. She said they treasured it. I told her I was so very grateful someone still has theirs and treasures it. April, Ted and I went together. We picked up April at work at 11:30 a.m. and then ate at Macayo’s. I said I was sure Aunt Connie wanted us to have a good time on our last visit to see her.
Sept. 16: Yesterday at the memorial for Aunt Connie, they had 3 large posters of family pictures. Among them were quite a few of our family. From 1971 there was a pix of mother and daddy with Bernice and Dave, Connie and Vern, and another couple. There were pix of Sonja, Tom, Carola and myself, maybe April, with Connie and Bernice at Chris Ridge Retirement apts. Several pix of April, Ted and me with Connie and Bernice. Some other pix too though I can’t remember exactly who was in them. . .
Lots of love, Mom/Aunt Judy/ Judy
Date: 21 Sep 2005