Person:Mabel Whitmore (1)

Mabel's mother, Ida Mae Ralph, came to Nebraska from Wisconsin to fisit her Aunt Elizabeth Sheppherd near Elgin. She became interested in Floyd Whitmore and later married him. They lived on a farm near his dad's and that is where Clifford and Mabel were born. Later he learned the jewelers' trade from E. O. Petersen. He then went to Basin, Wyoming, and started a store. He died of an ulcerated tooth when he was only 39.

Clifford workd in the oil fields in Wyoming after completing high school in three years. He and I both went to Miss Watson in Elgin. MabelI went to a Teacher's College in Wisconsin for three years and taught for 20 years in Wisconsin and South Dakota.

I married Albert Koinzan in Elgin, Nebraska, in 1942, and he brought me to his farm in New Plymouth, Idaho.

By Mabel R. Koinzan

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Whitmore, William Bruce, to Carol Whitmore Timmerman, letter, September 4, 1969.
2. ↑ Timmerman, Carol Whitmore, to Harold B. Whitmore, letter, 3/31/94.
3. ↑ Timmerman, Carol, to Harold B. Whitmore, phone call. 10/19/94.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Mabel E. Koinzan, in Find A Grave.