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Fred has died, five and a half years after Will's death. Now, of the Five Stokey Siblings, only the Three Stokey Sisters are left - Alma, Laura, and Eva.
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Dr. Fred Stokey, So. Hadley, Dies
Holyoke, July 14 -- Dr. Fred E. Stokey, a Spanish-American War veteran and a retired missionary doctor, died suddenly today at his home on Faculty Rd., South Hadley Center. Medical Examiner Maurice T. Kennedy said death was caused by an acute coronary thrombosis.
Born in Alliance, O., Aug. 5, 1879, he graduated from the University of Chicago and for 18 years was a missionary to Angola in Portugese West Africa. He resided for the past 12 years in Dickinson House off Mount Holyoke College campus, and maintained a summer residence at Woods Hole.
He leaves a daughter, Miss Alma G. Stokey, a student at Oberlin College in Ohio; three sisters, Miss Alma G. Stokey, professor emeritus at Mount Holyoke College, who headed the plant science department there from 1916 to 1942; Dr. Laura Stokey, of Canton, O., and Mrs. Eva S. Evans, of Atlanta, Ga.; also several nieces and nephews. Private funeral will be held at the Edward F. Day funeral home.
Holyoke, July 14 -- Dr. Fred E. Stokey, a Spanish-American War veteran and a retired missionary doctor, died suddenly today at his home on Faculty Rd., South Hadley Center. Medical Examiner Maurice T. Kennedy said death was caused by an acute coronary thrombosis.
Born in Alliance, O., Aug. 5, 1879, he graduated from the University of Chicago and for 18 years was a missionary to Angola in Portugese West Africa. He resided for the past 12 years in Dickinson House off Mount Holyoke College campus, and maintained a summer residence at Woods Hole.
He leaves a daughter, Miss Alma G. Stokey, a student at Oberlin College in Ohio; three sisters, Miss Alma G. Stokey, professor emeritus at Mount Holyoke College, who headed the plant science department there from 1916 to 1942; Dr. Laura Stokey, of Canton, O., and Mrs. Eva S. Evans, of Atlanta, Ga.; also several nieces and nephews. Private funeral will be held at the Edward F. Day funeral home.
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Born in Alliance, O., Aug. 5, 1879, he graduated from the University of Chicago and for 18 years was a missionary to Angola in Portugese West Africa. He resided for the past 12 years in Dickinson House off Mount Holyoke College campus, and maintained a summer residence at Woods Hole.
Fred was born in Canton, not Alliance. He went to Oberlin as an undergraduate, and did some of his medical school work at the University of Chicago, but not all. He first went to Angola in 1912 and came back to the US in 1916. He went again in 1922 and came back in 1928. So that makes a total of 10 years, not 18. The summer residence in Woods Hole belonged, of course, to Alma.
I figure my mother gave the undertaker the basics because there was nobody else available to do it, and she may have gotten some of them wrong (maybe the University of Chicago part) and then the undertaker misunderstood some other parts.
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Alma was on her round-the-world trip with Gladys when Fred died. Fred's daughter AG was with them for the European part of the trip. While on the trip Alma asked to have her will sent to her, and I wonder if it was so she could update it due to Fred's death:
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We have death notices or obituaries for four out of the five siblings. So far I don't have anything for Eva. The pages on this website are:
Born in Alliance, O., Aug. 5, 1879, he graduated from the University of Chicago and for 18 years was a missionary to Angola in Portugese West Africa. He resided for the past 12 years in Dickinson House off Mount Holyoke College campus, and maintained a summer residence at Woods Hole.
Fred was born in Canton, not Alliance. He went to Oberlin as an undergraduate, and did some of his medical school work at the University of Chicago, but not all. He first went to Angola in 1912 and came back to the US in 1916. He went again in 1922 and came back in 1928. So that makes a total of 10 years, not 18. The summer residence in Woods Hole belonged, of course, to Alma.
I figure my mother gave the undertaker the basics because there was nobody else available to do it, and she may have gotten some of them wrong (maybe the University of Chicago part) and then the undertaker misunderstood some other parts.
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Alma was on her round-the-world trip with Gladys when Fred died. Fred's daughter AG was with them for the European part of the trip. While on the trip Alma asked to have her will sent to her, and I wonder if it was so she could update it due to Fred's death:
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We have death notices or obituaries for four out of the five siblings. So far I don't have anything for Eva. The pages on this website are:
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