Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Tombstone Tuesday: TURNBOUGH, Florence

Florence Eleanor Turnbough full grave site.1
Florence Eleanor Turnbough
1907 - 1994
She Lives Within Our Hearts

Florence Eleanor (Olson) Turnbough was born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, US to Julius E. Olson and Eldora (Cowles) Olson.

Eleanor immigrated to the Sturgeon Valley area in 1913 when her family moved from Spokane, Washington.  Attending Prince Albert Collegiate and Saskatoon Teacher's College, she instructed in one room schools before and after her marriage to Arguel Lee Turnbough2 with whom she had two daughters.3

Sources: 
[1] Wild Rose North Cemetery (Wild Rose, R.M. of Shellbrook no. 493, Saskatchewan, Canada; in SW Section 14, Township 50, Range 2, West of the 3rd Meridian), Florence Turnbough grave markers, photographed by Alanna Carswell, July 2011.
[2] "Olson Family" Footprints of Our Pioneers: Briarlea, Crutwell, Holbein, Nisbet, Rozilee, Wild Rose. Shellbrook: Wild Rose and Area History Book Committee, 1990. pp. 601-602. Print.

[3] "Turnbough, Arguel and Eleanor (Olson)." Footprints of Our Pioneers: Briarlea, Crutwell, Holbein, Nisbet, Rozilee, Wild Rose. Shellbrook: Wild Rose and Area History Book Committee, 1990. pp. 758-759. Print.

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