DODGE, Geneva B. (Higgenbottom) c1906-1945

DODGE, PIERCE, HIGGENBOTTOM

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 7/7/2012 at 22:36:13

#1:

Mrs. George Dodge
Killed in Freight
Elevator Accident

Mrs. Myrtle Pierce was notified Tuesday of the accidental death of her sister-in-law, Mrs. George Dodge, killed at the Collins Radio Corporation at Cedar Rapids, while on duty operating a freight elevator. She had worked ther only a short time.

Mrs. Dodge was the former Geneva Higgenbottom of Floyd. She married George Dodge at Nashua in 1924. They established their home at Floyd and had resided at various places, moving to Cedar Rapids three years ago.

Mr. Dodge, a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Dodge of Orchard has been in failing health for some time.

Surviving besides the husband, are five children, the youngest is three years of age.

Funeral service is to be held this afternoon, Thursday, at Cedar Rapids and burial will be made in a cemetery there. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dodge, of Orchard, have been with the bereaved family since the accident.

[Mitchell County Press, Thursday, March 15, 1945]

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Mother of 5 Killed
By Falling Elevator

CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA - Mrs. Geneva Dodge, 39, mother of five children, was killed yesterday when her body was pinned against the third floor edge and the elevator shaft in the Smulekoff building. She was employed as an elevator operator by the Collins Radio Company.

Coroner T. Frank Hersch said the accident apparently occurred while the elevator was descending, that he believed it was purely accidental and no inquest was planned.

[Carroll Times Herald, Wednesday, March 14, 1945, Carroll, Iowa]

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#3:

Geneva Higgenbottom was born May 11, 1906 in Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana, the daughter of Robert Christopher Higgenbottom and Ella Mae Shaw.

She married George Morris Dodge, the son of Emery Dodge and Elsie (Clark) Dodge.

George was born January 26,1901 and died April 11, 1992. He was living in Eldon, Miller Co., Missouri.
(Credit: DM Scott)
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#4:

1930 US Census: Floyd, Floyd, Iowa:
George M. Dodge, 29, born Iowa
Geneva, 24, born Indiana
Ilah D., 4, born Iowa
Dona B., 4, 11/12 born Iowa
Dwight L., 1/12, born Iowa

NOTE: Dwight was born February 14, 1930 and died June 10, 1996 in Missouri. He's buried in the Memorial Park Cemetery, Columbia, Boone, Missouri.

(Credit: DM Scott)