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Ada Helen MEYROSE

Female 1881 - 1947  (65 years)


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  • Name Ada Helen MEYROSE 
    Birth Oct 1881  Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Death 16 May 1947  Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial 19 May 1947  Pilgrims Rest Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • In the 1930 census, she was the widow Ada Cory living with her children and two lodgers in Cudahy, Wisconsin, in a $9000 house that she owned.

      Not in the 1940 census.

      From the Milwaukee Journal, May 16, 1947, edition:

      Mrs. Ada H. Cory Ellingboe, 65, Lake Geneva, Wis., died Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Louise Huebler, 3930 W. Grange av., town of Franklin, following a long illness.

      Born in the town of Greenfield, Mrs. Ellingboe spent her childhood on her parents’ farm. She was a graduate of South Division high school here. In 1903 she married Jesse F. Cory, superintendent of schools for Milwaukee county. In 1907, Mr. Cory became superintendent of schools in Cudahy where his wife organized the first PTA there. She was a member of the school board for three years and a secretary for two. She was a charter member of the Pythian Sisters’ lodge and a member of the Women’s Benefit association of the Macabees.

      Mr. Cory died in 1924. After her marriage to Oscar Ellingboe in 1938, Mrs. Ellingboe moved to Lake Geneva, which was her home until she went to live with her daughter.

      Other survivors are her husband, Oscar; two sons, Niel and Richard Cory; two brothers, Peter and Grover Meyrose and a sister, Mrs. H. O. Horn.

      Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the Nero funeral home, 3701 E. Layton av., Cudahy. Burial will be in Pilgrims’ Rest cemetery.

      Ada also had a son Donald L, b. 18 Jan 1907.
    Person ID I21363  Don Carlson's Tree
    Last Modified 11 Jan 2022 

    Family Oscar ELLINGBOE,   b. 2 Apr 1885, Gibson Twp, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Oct 1962, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Marriage 1938 
    Family ID F15464  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 Oct 2014