1888 - 1978 (89 years)
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Name |
Edna Inez Funkhouser [1] |
Birth |
21 Nov 1888 |
Beaver County, Pennsylvania [1] |
Gender |
Female |
Death |
4 Oct 1978 |
Alachua County, Florida [1] |
Burial |
Candler Cemetery, Marion County, Florida [1] |
Person ID |
I51127 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
17 Nov 2020 |
Family |
John Cleveland Boots, b. 3 Jan 1885, Beaver County, Pennsylvania d. 14 May 1967, Marion County, Florida (Age 82 years) |
Marriage |
9 Dec 1909 |
Beaver County, Pennsylvania [1] |
Children |
| 1. John Raymond Boots, b. 24 Nov 1910, Beaver County, Pennsylvania d. 12 Apr 2002, Ocala, Marion County, Florida (Age 91 years) |
| 2. Frances Jeanette Boots, b. 7 Jul 1916, Beaver County, Pennsylvania d. 1999, Gainesville, Florida, USA (Age 82 years) |
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Family ID |
F18529 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
24 Jan 2013 |
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Notes |
- Perhaps her original exposure to Florida colored her feelings for Florida and perhaps she was simply a chronically unhappy person, but I cannot ever remember my grandmother (Edna (Funkhouser) Boots) showing any indication that she enjoyed life in any respect. She hated Florida - the bugs, the heat, the sand - everything.
She was very good at reading to children. She kept a pair of rollaway beds for those occasions when her grandchildren or other family members would visit. She had a couple of old books of fairy stories that she would read to me - until I was old enough to read for myself.
She always bought Christmas and birthday presents for the grandchildren, and when we were older (my cousins and I), we discovered that if you visited Grandpapa and Grandmama around your birthday, he would always follow you out to the car when it came time to leave, and slip you ten or twenty dollars that she knew nothing about.
He was that rarest of individuals - a genuinely good man. Unlike those folks today who go about telling everyone what a good Christian they are (all the while stabbing you in the back at every opportunity), he simply lived the life. Everyone knew that he was a good man through and through - it was not necessary to prove it to anyone. In our very small community, John C. Boots was very much respected, and nobody had a bad thing to say about him.
They lived about two blocks from us - just through the orange groves. Every Saturday morning at 8 o'clock, they would drive in to Ocala (about 18 miles) to do the weekly shopping. All I had to do, if I wanted to go along, was to be standing on our corner at precisely that time, and they would take me with them. While my grandmother would go shopping, my grandfather and I would go to the Ocala Public Library (a Carnegie Library) and select a few books for the week.
When my twin sons were around three or four and I had purchased my first house, he came to me one day and said that he thought that the boys needed a place to play, and that if I would screen in my front porch, he would pay for it.
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Sources |
- [S2479] MyFamily.com, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 175, Ed. 1, (Release date: April-2005
Customer pedigree.).
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