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- Newport Mercury and Weekly News
June 5, 1942
Services for Mrs. Frances E. Carr, wife of the late William F. Carr, formerly of Portsmouth, were conduced at the Memorial Funeral Home on Broadway on Sunday afternoon by the Rev. Norman Trafton, Pastor of the Friends Church.
Interment was in the Union cemetery in Portsmouth.
Mrs. Carr who resided in this city for some years, died last Friday at Kingsfield, Me., in her ninety fourth year. Mrs. Carr, daughter of the late Asa and Mary (Cornell) Cory was born and reared in Portsmouth and spent her entire life there until she left Portsmouth a year and a half ago to make her home in Kingfield with her nephew, Charles W. Cory Jr.
She was the oldest member of the Cory family for several generations and one of the oldest residents of Portsmouth and would have been 94 years old June 17. She had been in failing health for several years but was about the house until she fell and broke her wrist last September, and since then has been confined to her bed.
She leaves a brother Charles W. Cory, who is in his eighty sixth year; a nephew, Charles W. Cory Jr.; a grand niece, Ekizabeth Frances Cory; a grand nephew, Paul Richard Cory, all of Kingfield, Me.; and a cousin, Frank C. Cory of Portsmouth.
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