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- Former Resident, 81 Years Old, Dies in Hospital
Mrs. Carrie Glasgow, who lived in Normal from 1910 until 1942, died Monday morning at Our Saviour’s hospital, Jacksonville, where she had been a patient since August 1944, according to word received in Normal Monday. Funeral services will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Jacksonville.
Mrs. Glasgow, who was 81 years old, lived at 204 North Fell avenue for many years before leaving Normal in 1942. She was the youngest and last survivor of a family of eight, having been born Jan. 20, 1864, during the Civil war. Her father was born during the War of 1812 and her grandfather during the Revolutionary war.
In 1891 she was married to the Rev. S.A. Glasgow, minister of the Presbyterian church in Woodson, Ill. Mr. Glasgow died in 1908.
The Glasgows had four children, two of whom survive, Lt. Arthur Glasgow, of San Diego, Calif., who recently returned from 18 months in the southwest Pacific as a chaplain in the navy, and James Glasgow, who teaches geography at Michigan state Normal school, Ypsilanti, Mich., and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
She is also survived by three grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Mrs. Glasgow was a member of the First Presbyterian church in Normal until she moved to Ypsilanti several years ago. Services Wednesday will be conducted at the Williamson funeral home and burial will be in the Diamond Grove cemetery in Jacksonville.
The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois. Monday, 6 August 1945.
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