1949 - 1972 (23 years)
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Name |
Arlana MCKITTRICK |
Birth |
25 Apr 1949 |
Wisconsin |
Gender |
Female |
Occupation |
Nurse at University Hospital |
Death |
24 Dec 1972 |
Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa |
Burial |
Sugar Grove Cemetery, Clayton Twp, Crawford County, Wisconsin |
Notes |
- In a typed note to Cora in March of 1968, Theresa Clements mentions that she bakes a lot and sends boxes of goodies with Cindy and Lana to take back with them when they come home on weekends.
Killed in a car accident.
From an article in the Estherville Daily News from Estherville, Iowa, in its issue of Tuesday, December 26, 1972, p. 3:
Arlana Merry, 23, of Iowa City, was killed in a three-vehicle accident Sunday morning in Coralville. She was injured when her car was struck by a truck driven by Harold Thompson, 37, of Marion, and slammed into a traffic signal. She died later in University Hospitals in Iowa City.
(Coralville is a suburb of Iowa City.)
The La Crosse Tribune issue of Tuesday, December 26, 1972, p. 4, had this:
Former Viola Woman Dies In Iowa Crash
READSTOWN, Wis. - Mrs. Arlana Merry, 23, of Iowa City, Iowa, formerly of Viola, was killed Sunday, Dec. 24, in an auto accident in Iowa. No details were reported. Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Sugar Grove Church of Christ near Readstown. Rev. Tim Bright and Joe Adams officiating, and burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends were to call Tuesday afternoon and evening at the Sime Funeral Home in Readstown and at the church Wednesday after noon. She was born April 25. 1949, to Mr. and Mrs. Arland McKittrick, and she married Steven Merry in 1971. After graduating from Kickapoo High School at Viola, she took nurses training in Madison and was a registered nurse. She is survived by her husband, her parents of Viola; two brothers, Larry and Tom, and a sister, Ellen, all at home, and a grandmother, Mrs. Ernest McKittrick of Soldiers Grove.
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Person ID |
I841 |
Don Carlson's Tree |
Last Modified |
5 Aug 2020 |
Father |
Arland J MCKITTRICK, b. 10 May 1924, Crawford County, Wisconsin d. 26 Aug 2015, Vernon County, Wisconsin (Age 91 years) |
Mother |
Dorothy Marie EKUM, b. 30 Oct 1925, Vernon County, Wisconsin d. 10 Jul 2020, Viroqua, Vernon County, Wisconsin (Age 94 years) |
Marriage |
30 Jun 1948 |
Vernon County, Wisconsin |
Family ID |
F383 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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