Lilly Mae (Wood) Ross |
| Posted 2023-05-12 by Pat R |
| Arizona Republic (Phoenix, Arizona) Saturday, July 13, 1968, p. 62 Woman Survived Indian Massacre SAFFORD-- Mrs. Millie (sic: Lilly) Mae Ross, who survived an Indian massacre as a child, died at Mountain View Nursing Home Tuesday. She was 88. Services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the United Presbyterian Church, Clifton. Burial will be in Glenwood, N.M. Mrs. Ross, a native of Mogollon, N.M., was a member of the Tom Woods (sic: Wood) family, the only people to survive a massacre of residents of the Mogollon Valley in the late 1880s by Apache Indians under Victorio, a renegade chief. She spent most of her life in the Mogollon Valley, except for 20 years at Clifton and the past five years in Safford. She worked as a ranch cook, operated several restaurants, and was for some time dietician at the Silver City, N.M., hospital. She was known as an outdoorswoman and naturalist. Surviving are three sons, William and Leo of Morenci and Leonard, in South Vietnam; four daughters, Mrs. Grace Birdwell of Springerville, Mrs. Myrtle Willoughby and Mrs. Ruby Cook of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Almeda Balke of Safford; 14 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. |
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