RUSSELL, Grace "Doris" (Flack) 1890-1949

RUSSELL, FLACK, REECE, ROSS, CLARK

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/3/2013 at 23:18:36

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FORMER RESIDENT TO
BE GROUGHT BACK
HERE FOR BURIAL

Funeral services for Mrs. Doris Russell of Detroit, Michigan, and formerly of Osage, Iowa, will be held on Saturday at the Champion Funeral Home in Osage. Her body will arrive Friday. Mrs. Russell died Tuesday night at her home in Detroit of a heart attack. Burial will be made in the Mitchell cemetery beside her husband.

Mrs. Russell was a sister of Ben Reece and Rob Flack of Osage and her husband was a brother of Ross Russell, also of Osage.

Mrs. Russell's obituary will appear in next week's Press-News.

Mitchell County Press-News - October 13, 1949
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Last Rites at Osage
for Former Resident

Funeral services for Mrs. Grace Russell, 59, widow of Doris Russell, will be held Saturday at 2 p. m. at the Champion Funeral Home, the Rev. C. D. James officiating. Burial will be at Mitchell.

She died at her home in Detroit Mich., Wednesday following a heart attack.

Surviving are four sons: Forrest, Clifford, Roland and Terrance, all of Detroit; three brothers: Benjamin Flack, Reece Flack and Robert Flack oi Osage, and two sisters, Mrs Florence Lilibridge, Watford, North Dakota, and Mrs. Susan McClemons,
Dougherty. Her husband died in 1942.

Mr. and Mrs. Russell lived on a farm near Osage after their marriage in 1908, then moved to Lyle, Minnesota, where Mr. Russell managed an elevator. They moved to Detroit in 1925 where they resided since.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, Saturday, October 15, 1949, Mason City, Iowa] (Credit: S. Bell)
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NOTES:

Doris was actually:
Grace (Flack) Russell 1890-1949

Grace Flack was born July 1890, the daughter of Lorenzo Dow Flack and Mary Agnes (Clark) Flack. She married Dorce Lee Russell, the son of Elden Guy Russell and Annette (Ross) Russell.

See Dorce Lee Russell's obituary on the Mitchell Obits board.

Ben Reece and Rob Flack, mentioned in the obit, were her brothers: Benjamin Flack and Robert Walter Flack. Thomas Reece Flack was also a brother.

(Credit: DM Scott)
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1920 United States Federal Census:

Name: Grace Russell
Spouse: Davis L. Russell
Birth: abt 1892 - Iowa
Residence: 1920 - Mower county, Minnesota

(Credit: S. Bell)

Link to Grace Russell Tombstone Photo on GPP
 

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