Blanch Faber Poole (1876-1944)

FABER, POOLE

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 1/17/2011 at 08:10:20

Jackson Sentinel, February 18, 1944

Obituary-

MRS. BLANCH FABER POOLE

Blanch Faber Poole was born near Maquoketa on January 16, 1876, a daughter of Charles and Marion Faber, and died January 23, 1944, in Chicago. When a young girl she, with her mother, moved to Huron, South Dakota, where she attended school and graduated from the University of South Dakota. She prized very highly her diploma, signed by the governor of the state at that time. She then went to Lincoln, Nebraska, where she taught music for seven years, and later attended a school of music in Chicago. She was a very talented musician and her music meant a great deal to her. Later she suffered a rheumatic condition of her hands and gave up teaching music and was a saleslady in one of Chicago’s leading department stores for a number of years.
Later coming to Maquoketa, she married William B. Poole, December 4, 1920, and they resided in Iron Hill until 1927, when they moved to Chicago and have since resided there. She cared for her mother for 15 years and had been in very poor health for the past few years.
She is survived, besides the husband, by a brother, O. D. Faber, Davenport; two nieces. Mrs. George Olde, Milwaukee, Elvena Haskins, California; an aunt, Mrs. Emma Williams, Huron, S.D.; a foster brother, Alpha Faber, Davenport; a step-mother, Mrs. Minnie Faber, Maquoketa; and two step-sons, Kenneth Poole, Clinton and Leonard Poole, Maquoketa. She was preceded in death by her father, mother and one sister. Kenneth and Leonard Poole attended the funeral at Mysack’s Funeral Home in Chicago north side. Burial was in Archer Woods Cemetery.

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