Cora A. Giffin Dunlap 1891-1971

DUNLAP, GRIFFIN, GIFFIN, HAYWARD, PORTER, RESH

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 10/19/2014 at 23:35:34

Armstrong Woman Dies in California
Mrs. Samuel (Cora) Dunlap, 80, Armstrong, died Friday afternoon, Dec. 3, 1971, at Queen of Angel’s Hospital, Los Angeles, Calif. Her body was returned to Armstrong and funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Reese-Henry Funeral Chapel at Armstrong. The Rev. Leslie Lewis will officiate.

Burial will be in Armstrong Grove Cemetery.

She was born Nov. 11, 1891, at Joliet, Ill., to Elliot and Hattie [Hayward] Griffin.

She was married to Samuel Dunlap April 16, 1927, at Dubuque.

Following their marriage they lived in Chicago for two years and then moved to a farm northwest of Armstrong where she lived until her husband’s death one year ago Dec. 3, 1970. She had been making her home with her daughter at Burbank, Calif.

Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Gene (Doris) Porter, Burbank, Calif.; two grandsons, Ron and Mark Porter, Burbank, Calif.; one sister, Mrs. Mary Resh, Bettendorf; one brother, Grant Griffin.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, one sister and three brothers.

Friends may call at Reese-Henry Funeral Home in Armstrong after 10 a.m. Tuesday. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, December 6, 1971)