Name: Ross, Mary Estella (Mustard)
Burial Date: 1946, 12/24
Age at Death: 72
Plot Location: 409 F
Notes: wife of Dr. Harry Reath Ross
OBITUARY
Mrs. Harry R. Ross
Mrs. Mary E. Mustard Ross, daughter of Rev. David Fredrick and Agnes Dinsmore Mustard, was born June 22, 1873, near Brockton, Pa. The family lived at Mr. Ayr, IA, Sunbeam, Ill., Connellsville, Pa., and Walton, Kan., where her father died. Her mother and the six children moved to Sterling in 1892. She attended Sterling College.
She was married to Dr. Harry Reath Ross October 24, 1900. There were five children – Mrs. Ruth A. Van Patten of North Little Rock, Ark., Helen Margaret, who died in 1907; Harold, studying in New York City, Lt. Ralph D. of the Medical Corps, United States Navy, Jacksonville Naval Air Base, Jacksonville, Fla., and Donald S., a chemist, Phillips, Tex
The family moved from Sterling to Junction City, Kan., in 1928, where Dr. Ross was in charge of the Geary County Health Unit. In 1935 he went with the Kansas State Board of Health, at which time they moved to Topeka. Dr. Ross passed away in Topeka, April 10, 1944.
Mrs. Ross was a lifelong member of the United Presbyterian Church
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