Mabel Frances (Jordan) Knagge |
| Posted 2009-01-27 by Judy Wight Branson |
| The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, Arizona Tuesday, July 25, 1995 Mabel Jordan Knagge, a Tucson pioneer, died Thursday in Prescott. She was 95. Knagge, who was born in Yuma, first came to Tucson as a toddler in 1902, when Arizona was still a territory. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. today at Bring's Memorial Chapel, 236 S. Scott Ave. Burial will be in Southlawn Cemetery. During her childhood, Knagge's family lived on ranches in Tucson and across Arizona. At one point, the family established a home in rooms at a Butterfield Stagecoach station in Centennial, said Knagge's daughter, Mary Clement, of Canyon Country, Calif. Knagge's family said she was 'very proud of the fact she was a pioneer,' and passed down the traditions of Tucson's past to her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In 1917, Knagge's family returned to Tucson so she and her two brothers could attend Tucson High School. Knagge graduated in 1922. Collier's Business School was Knagge's next stop, where she earned a certificate in bookkeeping. She worked at Dos Cabesas Mines in Bowie, before marrying John Thomas Knagge in 1927 and moving to Oracle. They were later divorced. Mabel Knagge was a lifetime member of the First Baptist Church in Tucson and was active in the Arizona Historical Society and the Fort Lowell Homemakers Club, where she made bandages for hospitals during World War II, Clement said. She was also an artist. Besides Clement, Knagge is survived by her son Thomas Wilder Knagge, of Tucson, 13 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren. |
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