Clara Ross 1869-1959

ROSS, PERIGO, KENYON, RILEY, THOMAS

Posted By: Georgea Clinton (email)
Date: 4/6/2011 at 07:39:58

Sept 3, 1959 - Carroll Daily Times - Mrs. Clara Perigo Ross, 90, Carroll, died Thursday at 12:55 a.m. at the Tryon Nursing Home. She had been in ill health for the past five and a half years. The body is at the Huffman Funeral Home in Carroll, where the funeral arrangements are pending.

Mrs. Ross was born on January 10, 1869, at Talbot, Ind., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Perigo. In May 1887, she was married to William T. Ross at Boswell, Ind. They settled there and in 1902, came to Carroll county.

Surviving are four children, Mrs. Carlisle Kenyon, Bozeman, Mont.; H.C. Ross, Des Moines; R.L. Ross, Cut Bank, Mont., and Mrs. E.J. Riley, Carroll; and one brother, O.N. Perigo, Tarpon Springs, Fla.

Preceding her in death were her parents, her husband, a sister, Mrs. A.J. Thomas, Chicago, Illinois; a grandson, Ross Graning, and a great granddaughter, Kim Acklin, Lake City. Mrs. Ross was a member of the Presbyterian Church and a 50 year member of the Order of the Easter Star.