Person:Blanche Downs (1)

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Blanche Frances Downs
b.25 Jul 1902 Amboy, Town of, Oswego County, NY
d.3 Apr 1984 Utica, Oneida County, NY
Parents and Siblings
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m. 23 May 1900
  1. Blossom Elnora Downs1901 - 1984
  2. Blanche Frances Downs1902 - 1984
  3. C. Harold Downs1903 - 1988
  4. Herbert Russell Downs1910 - 1990
  5. Beatrice Katherine Downs1917 - 1972
Spouse and Children
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m. 9 Sep 1927
  1. John Stuart Welch, Jr.1932 - 2008
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Facts and Events
Name Blanche Frances Downs
Gender Female
Birth[1][2] 25 Jul 1902 Amboy, Town of, Oswego County, NY
Census? 1910
Other? Bet 1913 and 1974 News; See Notes
Census? 1920
Marriage 9 Sep 1927 Utica, Oneida County, NYto John Stuart Welch
Census? 1930
Census? 1940
Occupation? Telephone operator, New York Telephone Co.
Residence? Whitesboro, Oneida County, NY
Death[3][4] 3 Apr 1984 Utica, Oneida County, NY
Other? 4 Apr 1984 Obituary; See Notes
Burial[5] 5 Apr 1984 Crown Hill Memorial Park, Clinton, Oneida County, NY

Census 1910, Town of New Hartford, Oneida County, NY: Downs, Charles - Head - " Blanch - Daughter - Female - White - Age 7 - Born New York

Census 1920, Dennison AV, Whitesboro Village, Town of Whitestown, Oneida County, NY: Downs, Charles F. - Head - " Blanche F. - Daughter - Female - White - Age 17 - not in school - Born New York - Operator, telephone

Census 1930, 18 Dennison AV, Whitestown, Oneida County, NY: Welch, Mary H. - Head " J. STUART - Son " Blanche F. - Daughter-in-law - Female - White - Age 27 - Married at 25 - Born (& both parents) New York - Hair dressing, Beauty salon - Owner

Census 1940, Whitesboro, Oneida County, NY: Welch, J. Stewart - Head - " Blanche F. - Wife - Female - White - Education, 2 yrs High school - Born New York

News and personal items 1913-1974 printed out in Pink Footlocker files

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Utica Daily Press, 4 Apr 1984: BLANCHE D. WELCH Whitesboro-- Blanche D. Welch of Dennison AV, April 3, 1984 in Faxon Hospital. She was born July 25, 1902 in Amboy Center NY. She was a telephone operator in Whitesboro and married John Stuart Welch in 1927 at Tabernacle Baptist Church. He died in 1982. Mrs. Welch was a member of the Whitesboro Baptist Church, a member and past matron of Oriskany Chapter #524 O.E.S. She was a past District Deputy Grand Matron of the Lewis Oneida District and served as chairperson of the Necrology Committee of Grand Chapter O.E.S., State of New York, and member of Carda Temple #24, Daughters of the Nile, and an honorary member of the Historical Society of Whitesboro. Mrs. Welch is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, John S. and Norma Welch, Jr., Painted Post; two grandsons, David Welch, Rindge NH and Thomas Welch, Manchester NH; one granddaughter, Kate Welch of Ithaca; one sister, Blossom Davies; a brother and sister-in-law, Harold and Mary Downs, all of Fort Meyers FL; another brother and sister-in-law Herbert and Pauline Downs, Punta Gorda FL. She was predeceased by a sister, Beatrice Baumes. Friends are invited to attend her funeral Thursday morning... at the J.W. Dimbleby Funeral Home with the Rev. Donald O'Polka officiating. Interment will be in Crown Hill Memoiral Park...

References
  1. ↑ Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index: Death Master File, database. (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service).
  2. ↑ (Obituary)
    Utica Daily Press, 4 Apr 1984:.

    BLANCHE D. WELCH Whitesboro-- Blanche D. Welch ...She was born July 25, 1902 in Amboy Center NY.

  3. ↑ Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index: Death Master File, database. (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service).

    last residence, Whitesboro, Oneida County NY

  4. ↑ (Obituary)
    Utica Daily Press, 4 Apr 1984:.

    BLANCHE D. WELCH Whitesboro-- Blanche D. Welch of Dennison AV, April 3, 1984 in Faxon Hospital.

  5. ↑ (Obituary)
    Utica Daily Press, 4 Apr 1984:.

    BLANCHE D. WELCH Whitesboro-- Blanche D. Welch ... Friends are invited to attend her funeral Thursday morning... Interment will be in Crown Hill Memoiral Park...

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