Bertha Estell Gritton
1911 - 1936 (25 years)-
Name Bertha Estell Gritton Born 24 May 1911 Centralia, Boone County, Missouri 
[1, 2] Gender Female Occupation housewife [1] Died 2 Jun 1936 Centralia, Boone County, Missouri [1, 2, 3] - Missouri death certificate
https://www.sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1936/1936_00022749.PDF
Buried 4 Jun 1936 Centralia Cemetery, Centralia, Boone County, Missouri [1, 2] Person ID I2630 Gritton Last Modified 4 Mar 2024
Father Earl Simpson Gritton, b. 14 May 1880, Monroe County, Missouri , d. 21 Feb 1957, Mexico, Audrain County, Missouri (Age 76 years) Mother Myrtle Frances Jones, b. 13 May 1883, Monroe County, Missouri , d. 20 Jan 1964, Mexico, Audrain County, Missouri (Age 80 years) Married 22 Feb 1902 Monroe County, Missouri [4] Family ID F1103 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family John Mitchell Gallip, b. 6 Jun 1914, Audrain County, Missouri , d. 28 Feb 1997, Centralia, Boone County, Missouri (Age 82 years) Married 13 Jul 1935 Pittsfield, Pike County, Illinois Children 1. Hazel Jeanette Gallip, b. 10 May 1935, Centralia, Boone County, Missouri , d. 10 May 1935, Centralia, Boone County, Missouri (Age 0 years)Last Modified 4 Mar 2024 Family ID F1105 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 24 May 1911 - Centralia, Boone County, Missouri 
Married - 13 Jul 1935 - Pittsfield, Pike County, Illinois Died - 2 Jun 1936 - Centralia, Boone County, Missouri 
Buried - 4 Jun 1936 - Centralia Cemetery, Centralia, Boone County, Missouri = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Notes - Moberly Monitor-Index (newspaper), Moberly, Missouri, 27 July 1935
Two Centralia couples in secret wedding July 13.
Centrali, July 27. - is Bertha Gritton, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gritton and Mitchell Gallop, son of Mr. and Mrs. Asa Gallop, and Miss Helen Roberts, daughter of Mrs. William Russell, and Harry Bugg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Newman Bugg, were married in a double wedding ceremony in Pittsfield, Ill, July 13, and the marriage was kept secret until it came to friends and relatives here from a friend of the brides and bridegrooms in Pittsfield.
Both brides have been employed as telephone operators in the local office of the Missouri Telephone Company for the past several years. All of the contracting parties have relatives in Moberly, among whom is Ray Gritton, an employe of the Mechanics bank, a brother of Mrs. Gallop. They will continue to make their homes in Centralia, where Mr. Gallop is employed with the Chance Manufacturing Co, and Mr. Bugg as the M.J. McDonald Furniture and Undertaking Co.
- Mrs. Bertha Gallop Dies
Mrs. Bertha Gritton Gallop, 25, died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gritton, in this city Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock after an illness of several months. Deceased was educated in this city, was married last July 13 to Mitchell Gallop, who survives. Other survivors are her parents, one sister, Mrs. Hazel Kempster, of Kansas City, and five brothers, Roy, Ralph and Earl, Jr., of the home, Ray, of Moberly, and Chester, of Chicago. Funeral and burial will take place in this city.
Columbia Daily Tribune, Columbia, Missouri. Wednesday, 3 June 1936.
[3, 5] - LKH note:
In newspaper article about her marriage and in her obituary Bertha's surname is spelled as Gallop. Her headstone spells her surname as Gallip.
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- Moberly Monitor-Index (newspaper), Moberly, Missouri, 27 July 1935
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