This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GURNEY PITCHER WASHBURN SKOOR Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vh.2ADI/2139 Message Board Post: From The Elkhart Truth May 8,1940 Mrs. Minerva L. Gurney, 64, who lived at 220 Potowatomi Drive for 26 years prior to last August, died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Lyle W. Washburn, in Portland, Ore. She was the mother of Claude J. Gurney of Elkhart. Also surviving are a brother, Herman F. Pitcher of Stevens Point, Wis., and a niece, Mrs. J.J. Skoor of Milwaukee, who made her home here with Mrs. Gurney until her marriage in September of 1938. Burial will take place next Monday at Plover, Wis., where Mrs. Gurney was born, Oct. 25, 1875.