Amelia Jeanette (SLATTERY) TODD

SLATTERY, TODD, BORNGESSER, MCKINSTRY

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 11/22/2010 at 02:42:38

Great Falls Tribune
Billings, Montana
January 27, 1962

MRS. TODD DIES, RITES AT RYEGATE

Funeral services for Mrs. Amelia J. [(SLATTERY)] TODD, 75, 3705 8th Av. No., widow of Harry G. TODD, will be from the Ryegate [Montana] Methodist Church Tuesday afternoon at 1. Mrs. TODD died Friday at a local hospital.

Memorial services will be at the Chapel of the Chimes Sunday afternoon at 12:30, with Rev. Vernon HANKS officiating. Burial will be in Mountview Cemetery, Billings.

Born June 23, 1886, in Diagonal, Iowa [the daughter of William J. and Mary Katherine (BORNGESSER) SLATTERY)], she was married there Oct. 19, 1904.

In 1915 she came to homestead in Hysham with her husband and lived later at Ryegate until her husband's death in 1954. Following her husband's death, she visited with relatives in Iowa for some time before moving back to Ryegate and Great Falls. She was a member of the Ryegate methodist Church and the Isabell Currie Chapter 77, OES, Ryegate.

Survivors include four sons, Stanley and James, both of Fairbanks, Alaska; Marlin of Gendive; and Raymond of Great Falls; a sister, Mrs. Carry McKINSTRY, Clearfield, Iowa; 15 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, November of 2010