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Note: FROM AN UNKNOWN FORT SUMNER (NM) AREA NEWSPAPER, NOVEMBER 1964: MRS. ROSA DUNLAP SUCCUMBS IN DE BACA GENERAL HOSPITAL
Mrs. Rosa Dunlap, a resident of De Baca County since 1909, succumbed Wednesday, November 4, [1964] in De Baca General Hospital. She had been in ill health for several years.
Funeral services were held Friday at 10:30 a.m. in the First Methodist Church with Rev. Albert Peak and Bro. F. L. Hutcherson conducting the rites. Interment was in Fort Sumner Cemetery by the side of her husband Charlie Dunlap, who preceded her in death in 1941. Julian’ Mortuary was in charge of arrangements.
Serving as pallbearers were Tom Bonner, William H. Carr, C. B. Craig, Monte Hamilton, Sidney R. West, Willie Spitz, Robert Edwards and Ben Good, Jr.
The former Rosa Blackwood was born December 1, 1883 in Mountain Grove, Missouri. She came to the Dunlap Community in 1909 to teach school and that same year was married to J. C. Dunlap. They moved to Fort Sumner in 1919 and she taught in the local schools until her retirement in 1948.
She had been a member of the Methodist Church since childhood, was a charter member of Mount Moriah Chapter No. 38, Order of the Eastern Star and served as worthy matron in 1924.
She is survived by two [step] sons, Frank Dunlap, Albuquerque; Roy Dunlap, Kimberly Idaho; one [step] daughter, Mrs. May Smith, Roswell; one brother, C. C. Blackwood, Kirkwood, Missouri; six grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren.
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