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- MHR note: Flora graduated from high school in 1917, Urbana, Illinois, from Brown's Business College in 1922 and with an A.B. degree from Culver-Stockston College in 1931. When the Peoples Savings Bank in Center Point Iowa, when it opened in October 1946, Flora was the manager. In 1956 she worked at the State Bank in St. Joseph, Illinois. She was a member of the Christian Church. She died in 1969 in a car accident.
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- From Hedges Reunion Book: Nell Gillam, her mother Myrtle (Hedges) Denger, and Flora Tillotson died in a car accident on their way home from California.
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- Missouri Crash Kills 4 Women
Higginsville, Mo. (AP) – Flora E. Tillotson, 62, of St. Joseph, Champaign County, Ill, and three other women were killed Sunday in an automobile collision on U.S. 40.
Miss Tillotson’s address was given as 505 Warren St.
The other victims were Mrs. Nell Gillam, 57, of Des Moines, Iowa, driver of one of the cars; Clara Mae Gillam, of Tipton, Iowa, and Mrs. Myrtle Denter, 86, of Des Moines.
The Gillam car collided with one driven by Lee Lowder Jr. of Allen, Kan.
The Dispatch, Moline, Illinois. Monday, 29 July 1963.
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- Four persons died in the Missouri crash that took the lives of three Iowa women.
The dead all relatives riding in one car:
Mrs. Neill Elizabeth Gillam, 57, Des Moines school teacher.
Her mother, Mrs. Myrtle Denger, 86, of Des Moines,
Mrs. Clara Mae Gillam, in her 60s, of Tipton, a sister-in-law of Mrs. Nell Gillam, and
Flora E. Tillotson, 62, of St. Joseph, Ill., niece of Mrs. Denger.
A car driven by Mrs. Nell Gillam, 1962 University of Iowa Mother of the Year, apparently went out of control on U.S. Highway 40 near Higginsville in western Missouri and swerved into the path of a car driven by Lee L. Lowder, Jr., of Allen, Kan. Lowder escaped injury, but his wife was hospitalized at Lexington, Mo, in critical condition.
Officer said the dead women were returning from a California vacation.
Iowa City Press-Citizen, Iowa City, Iowa. Monday, 29 July 1963.
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