Whitehouse |
LEBANON ENTERPRISE - 12/28/1945 RETIRED POSTAL AGENT SUCCUMBS MISS FANOLA WHITEHOUSE EXPIRES AT HOME AT RILEY Miss Fanola Whitehouse, 60, former postmistress at Riley and well known in that community, died at her residence there Christmas Eve morning at 2 o'clock following a long illness of a complication of troubles. She had been confined to her home for nearly three years and in recent weeks had declined steadily. Her passing was not unexpected. Miss Whitehouse was named postmistress at Riley twenty-one years ago and served the office continuously until 1942 when ill health forced her retirement. Previously she was and assistant rural letter carrier, helping her father with the delivery of mail in the eastern part of the county. She was held in high regard throughout the locality and had a host of friends. BORN NEAR GRAVEL SWITCH Born in the Gravel Switch neighborhood on September 15, 1885, she was a daughter of the late Joseph Whitehouse, Civil War veteran, and Mrs. Martha E. Hourigan Whitehouse. She had spent practically all her life in Marion County. Surviving her are one sister, Mrs. L.P. Isaacs of Louisville and two brothers, J. Holbert Whitehouse of Louisville and J.R. Whitehouse of Cave City. She is also survived by twenty-four nieces and nephews. Two sisters and a brother preceded her to the grave. They are Mrs. John Lanham and Mrs. W.B. Rexroat, Jr., and William Whitehouse. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at the Haysville Baptist Church by the Rev. Henry Hedgespeth and interment took place in the family lot in the church cemetery. Six nephews served as pallbearers: Joseph Rexroat, H.G. Rexroat, Tom Lanham and Billy, Lingle and James Whitehouse. |
Grace (Whitehouse) Graham Born 3/23/1879 Died 5/24/1905 Daughter of Joseph Whitehouse & Martha Elizabeth Hourigan Wife of Sam Graham Mother of: Joseph Whitehouse Graham & Bertha (Graham) Roberts |
Hourigan Cemetery at Haysville, Marion County, Kentucky |
Fanola Guyula Whitehouse Born 9/15/1885 Died 12/24/1945 Daughter of Joseph Whitehouse & Martha Eliazbeth Hourigan |