Blanche Katherine McNerney

1890 - 1938  (47 years)

• Name	Blanche Katherine McNerney  [1]
  Birth	15 Aug 1890	Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri, USA   [2]
  Gender	Female
  _UID	3D7CC059399247B49237A0EF8E42BD30AD49
  Death	6 Apr 1938	Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri, USA   [2]
  	Cause: Heart disease
  Burial	Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri, USA, Park Cemetery   [2]
  Person ID	I9545	Larry and Jane's Family Tree
  Last Modified	20 Apr 2016

  
  

  Family	Ralph King Hallett, I,   b. 27 Jul 1888, Toronto, Woodson County , Kansas, USA d. 18 Jan 1973, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	14 Jul 1917	San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA   [2]
  Children	1. Living   2. Joseph Russell Hallett,   b. 25 Jul 1920   d. 16 Dec 2011 (Age 91 years)
  Family ID	F3395	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jul 2019

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 14 Jul 1917 - San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  Blance Katherine McNerney

  
  

• Notes

  CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS APRIL 6, 1938 DEATH OF MRS. R. K. HALLETT PROMINENT CARTHAGE WOMAN BORN HERE 47 YEARS AGO Funeral Services for Daughter of Mrs. P. J. McNerney Will Be Friday Afternoon Mrs. Blanche Kathryn Hallett, wife of Ralph K. Hallett, passed away shortly before 8 o'clock this morning at the home of her mother, Mrs. P. J. McNerney, 1615 Grand Avenue. She had long suffered from a heart disease. Born in Carthage August 15, 1890, Mrs. Hallett grew up here and was graduated from the Carthage High School in 1909. That fall she entered the University of Missouri at Columbia and received both her A. B. degree in the college of arts and science and her B. S. in education there in 1913. The following year, Mrs. Hallett taught in the high school at Lamar and in the fall of 1914 she was elected head of the history department in the Carthage High School, which position she held until 1917. On July 14, 1917, Blanche McNerney was married to Ralph K. Hallett in San Francisco, California where Mr. Hallett was employed as a civil engineer for the Hercules Powder Company. Later they were returned to Carthage by the company. In 1928 they moved to Wilmington, Delaware and while Mr. Hallett was doing construction work near New Brunswick, New Jersey, Mrs. Hallett attended Rutgers College of New Jersey at New Brunswick where she recieved her master's degree in guidance in 1929. She was one of the first four women to receive a degree from Rutgers, which is a men's school. Mrs. Hallett, a member of a prominent pioneer family of Carthage was a leader in clubs and other organizations of the city. She was a charter member of the Junior Tourist club and of the Joplin-Carthage branch, American Association of University Women. She also served as president of both organizations. Mrs. Hallett was active in Parent-Teacher Association work in the city and served one year as president of the General Council and it was under her guidance the free milk fund for underprivileged school children was started. She was for many years active in the First Methodist Episcopal Church and Sunday school. Mrs. Hallett was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at the University of Missouri. She is survived by her husband, Ralph K. Hallett two sons; Ralph Jr., a sophomore at Westminister College, Fulton, Missouri Joseph, a cadet at Wentworth Military Academy, Lexington, Missouri her mother; Mrs. P. J. McNerney her sister; Miss Martha McNerney, both of Carthage Mr. Hallett, who is superintendent of the Soil Conservation Service at California, MO. and the two sons arrived here early this morning. -------------------- Home she occupied from 1913: The land was acquired in 1893 and the house built sometime after that for $6,000 by S. H. Houser. Shortly after completion Houser, a foundry owner, declared bankruptcy. Purchased by P J McNerney in 1913 who removed the turret in the 1930s because of a water leak problem, owned till his widowed wife died in 1952. (is currently, Grand Avenue Bed and Breakfast) [2] (Medical):See attached sources. [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S320] Kendall Laughlin, Descendants of William Kendall of Ashford, Connecticut, and Caledonia County, Vermont, (1955, 38 pages), p. 24 (Reliability: 3). [S127] Findagrave.com, ( Findagrave.com . http://www.findagrave.com.), (http://www.findagrave.com). (Reliability: 3).