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Note: Edith's family had moved from where she was born in Roselle Park to Mountainside by 1905 when the NJ State Census was taken. At the time
of the US Census of 1910 the family was in Cranford. The family was
living in Westfield when censuses were taken in 1915 and 1920.
In the early nineteen twenties she accompanied her parents and her younger brother John to Daytona Beach, Florida where they lived for a
short time before returning to New Jersey.
Shortly after she and her second husband, James, moved to Toms River, NJ in early 1959, she was diagnosed as having cancer. She died of
complications resulting from the cancer.
The following obituary appeared in the August 20, 1959 edition of the Plainfield Courier-News newspaper:
[UL:MRS. JAMES RANKIN JR.:UL] Westfield - Mrs. Edith G. Rankin, 56, of 1062 Bay Ave., Toms River, a former Westfield resident, died in Memorial Center, New York City
today (Aug. 20, 1959) after a long illness. She was the wife of James
Rankin Jr.
Born in Roselle Park, Mrs. Rankin had lived in Toms River about a year. Before that she lived in Cranford 29 years and prior to that in
Westfield.
She is survived besides her husband by three sons, John R. Rankin of Cranford, Milton J. Rankin of Toms River and Robert E. Marshall of New
Market; one sister, Mrs. Olive Wesp of Point Pleasant; two brothers,
Milton S. Doty of Point Pleasant Beach and John H. Doty of San Pedro,
Calif., and six grandchildren.
Services will be held in Gray's Saturday at 1 p.m. The Rev. Richard Hardman, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, will officiate.
Interment will be in Fairview Cemetery.
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