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Note: The Howard Courant-Citizen, Howard, Kansas Thursday, August 30, 1945 Mrs. Louisa Nigh, who has been working at Wichita in war work for the past several years, is again making her home in Howard. OBITUARY---Louisa Armstrong Louisa Matilda Armstrong, 75, of Howard died Tuesday in William Newton Memorial Hospital. She was born April 19, 1903, on a farm near Fostoria, Kan., to John and Annie Ferrel Butt. The family moved to Howard in November 1916. She married David Nigh Dec. 24, 1919. He died Feb. 6, 1927, and she married Homer Armstrong March 4, 1947. He died May 22, 1960. During World War II, Mrs. Armstrong worked for Boeing Aircraft in Wichita. She was a charter member of the Carter-Rader Post of the American legion Auxiliary and she was a member of the Coffeyville branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the Sunflower Grange. Mrs. Armstrong is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Geneva Wells of Howard, Mrs. Bonnie Hurt of Wilbur, Ore.; a foster brother Glen Pringle of Houston, Texas; eight grandchildren and a number of great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Thursday in Zimmerman Funeral Home, Howard. Interment will be in Grace Lawn Cemetery, Howard. Note: Her daughter, Bonnie Hurt, believes she had another husband, Ralph Webb. Louisa died of Breast Cancer.
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