Norah (Clough) Hartzell |
| Posted 2018-01-12 by Judy Wight Branson |
| rescott Evening Courier, Prescott, Arizona Wednesday, January 30, 1957, page 1, column 6 Death Claims City Native, Norah Hartzell Mrs. Norah Clough Hartzell, 78, died Tuesday at the Community Hospital, where she had been a patient for the last 3 1/2 years. Mrs. Hartzell was born at the ranch home of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred S. Clough, pioneers in the area. The ranch was located east of the Prescott Municipal Airport and included the Point of Rocks at Granite Dells and the land familiarly known as the Bianconi ranch. She had spent her life in the vicinity of Prescott, only leaving for a short period when she attended a school of home economics in Boston, Mass. Upon the death of her parents in 1908, she sold the ranch and later married Dr. Clark K. Hartzell, a dentist, who died in 1951. Their home was at 226 S. Pleasant St. Mr. and Mrs. Hartzell collected Indian artifacts after Dr. Hartzell's retirement and , along with other things, which she had presented to the Sharlot Hall Museum, have been placed in the Hartzell room of the museum. In the spring of 1955, Mrs. Hartzell desired to see the room and was taken from the hospital to the museum on a stretcher in and ambulance. She was a member of the Monday Club for many years and took an active part in its projects. Survivors are three cousins, Ed Alexander, Wickenburg, Leila Barber (Mrs. Frank) of Hancock, N.H., and Gladys Bradbury (Mrs. Lester) of Oberlin, Ohio; and a niece, Miss Hazel Hartzell of North Benton, Ohio, who visited her aunt here on several occasions. Services have been scheduled for Friday at 2 p.m. at the Ruffner chapel, with Dr. Charles Franklin Parker officiating. Interment will be in the family plot at the Mountain View Cemetery. Friends who wish to call at the Funeral home, mad do so between 6 and 9 p.m. Thursday. See Also: Arizona Gravestone Photo Project |
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