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Note: Handwritten note: Bertha Edna Pence
Born 1890 March 15 to Page and Ella Nicols, Delivan, ILL, move to Peoria Ill 1892
Went to Douglass and Lincoln schools
Telephone operator for Bell Telephone Co in Peoria for 8 years.
Married 1915 to George Stanly Glass, 2 sons born Walter F and George J. Glass, Walter died of Scarlet Fever 29 Aug 1923
Married to Ira C Pence July 6, 1923.
A daughter was born 21 Apr 1927, Ilean Carolyn.
Sister Mrs. Carolyn Walter, Atlanta, GA and one brother in Peoria Sam Nichols, one brother in Colorado Springs, CO, Chas B. Nichols.
Death Certificate and book from funeral home:
We are met in this memorial service this early autumn day to pay tribute to Mrs. Bertha Edna Pence, who has made her home in Peoria since childhood. Born at Delevan, Illinois on March 10th, 1889, the daughter of Page and Ella Secrist Nichols, she married Ira Pence in Peoria on July 21, 1923.
Ms. Pence has been a patient sufferer for a long period of time, but remained cheerful through all the days of her indisposition.
Surviving are her husband, one daughter; Miss Ilean Pence; one son: George, of the U.S. Army Engineers, stationed at Camp Abbott, who is present today; two brothers, Bernard Nichols, of Colorado Springs, Colorado and Samuel Nichols of Dwight, Illinois; and one sister: Mrs. Carrie Walters of Atlanta, Georgia.
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