Margaret Birdella Woodhurst


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Brief biography

Margaret Birdella Woodhurst was born on August 1st 1920 in Ralls Co., Missouri to parents Walter Wille Woodhurst and his wife Velma Mae Hopke.

The US 1930 Census finds her aged "9" living with her parents in Salt River, Ralls Co.

She married or partnered Melvin Edgar Robinson before May 1940; no record of a marriage between them has yet been found.

The US 1940 Census finds her aged "19" living with Melvin - both of them entered as married - in the household of his parents in Center township, Ralls Co. The family was occupied in farming.

Margaret divorced from Melvin in 1953 after producing three children by him.

On July 15th 1955 she remarried at Hannibal, Missouri to Ralph Waldo Omer, by whom she had a further child. Ralph was born in Iowa on July 27th 1923.

She worked variously at the Perry Cafe, at the Cerf Brothers Bag Company and at a local garment factory, all in Perry in Ralls Co.

In the 1990s she resided in Perry at 504, S. Netherland Street and 901 E. Martin Street.

She died aged "78" at her home in Perry on July 20th 1999. Her obituary was published on July 22nd in The Hannibal Courier-Post. She was buried in the Lick Creek Cemetery in Perry on July 24th.

Ralph died in Missouri on February 3rd 2018.

Her children by Melvin Edgar Robinson

  1. Donald Eugene Robinson
  2. Calvin Robinson
  3. Mildred Robinson

Mildred married into the Helwig surname.

Her child by Ralph Waldo Omer

  1. Fred Omer