Sunday Drive: Spearfish, South Dakota - 1953

The caption on this slide in Dad's handwriting reads "at Florence's Spearfish S.Dak. 53" so have all the information we need.

[From my personal collection]

Florence Christine Weisman (1900-1985) married Mother's older brother Gilbert Grenfell (1901-1928) in 1924 and the couple had a son Milton (1925-2003) and a daughter Joyce who died as an infant in 1926.

[From my personal collection]

Gilbert was killed in 1928 when the tractor he was driving overturned.

Florence became the wife of Ralph B. Courtney (1903-1956) in 1932 becoming the stepmother to his two children by his first wife.

She's buried in Little Dane Cemetery, Saint Onge, Lawrence County, South Dakota along with both of her husbands, her son and his wife, and her stepson.


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Family Friday: Grenfell/Weisman

Bernice Evangeline Grenfell Currey, the mother who raised me, was the middle child between two boys. Her older brother Gilbert Wilfred Grenfell (1901-1928) married Florence Kristine Weisman (1900-1985) on October 25, 1924 in Deadwood, South Dakota. The couple had two children before Gilbert's death which occurred when an eroded stream bank next to the field he was plowing collapsed, causing the tractor to roll over, crushing him.

[From my personal collection]

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