Booker, Emma Pinkerton

BOOKER, WHEELER, PINKERTON

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 5/28/2011 at 14:55:05

MRS. BOOKER OF BURBANK, CALIF. DIED AUGUST 8

Word has been received by Mrs. Alice Wheeler of the death of Mrs. Emma L. Pinkerton Booker Aug. 8, 1932, at her home in Burbank, California. She was well known here in the seventies and early eighties, as the Pinkerton family was prominent in Chester and in Grinnell at that time. She attended the Grinnell academy and a brother and sister graduated from Grinnell college. She was one of the fine rural teachers of those days. One sister went to Africa as a missionary under the American Board and one brother was a missionary to the Indians in South Dakota for some time.

Her father and mother were Congregational Home Missionaries in Wisconsin where she was born seventy-eight years ago.

In 1889 she was married to Daniel M. Booker at Ottumwa, Iowa and for forty-three years was a homemaker, twenty-three of these years in California. Besides her husband she is survived by her son Paul H., her daughter Winnifred, two brothers, Rev. Wm. B. Pinkerton of Los Angeles, California and Winthrop Pinkerton of Tucson, Arizona; and a sister, Mrs. Irving S. Watson of Burbank, California.