Thornsbury.Bertha.1972.Lewis-Pike-Floyd.OBIT
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Bertha Thornsbury August 13, 1972 
Lewis-Pike-Floyd County KyArchives Obituaries 

Unknown Newspaper   1972 
 BERTHA THORNSBURY 
A Floyd county woman was killed Sunday afternoon in an auto-truck collision 
while visiting relatives in Lewisburg, Ohio and two others were injured. 
 Mrs. Bertha Thornsbury, 54, of  Melvin died almost instantly when the auto 
driven by her daughter-in-law  Mrs. Roosevelt Thornsbury, of  Lewisburg, 
plunged over an enbankment after having been hit by a truck. A wheel of the 
truck dropped off, causing the collision. 
The driver of the car and the victim's step-daughter,  Miss Margie Thornsbury, 
were  hurt, but not seriously . 
 Mrs. Thornsbury,was a native of pike county, the daughter of the late Will 
and Martha Music Tackett. She was a member of Joppa Regular Baptist Chruch. 
She was first  married to Ottie Little, after whose death in 1941 she was 
married to  John M. Thornsbury  who  also prceded her in death. 
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Hazel Warren  of Milford, Mich,., and two 
sons, Ralph Little, Inkster, Mich., and Rush  Little ,of St. Clair Shores, 
Mich.; three stepdaughters and four stepsons, Margie Thornsbury, of Melvin, 
Mrs. Ruth  Hagelburger, of Ohio, Mrs. Ella Mae Mitchell of New Weston, Ohio, 
Roosevelt Thornsbury of Lewisburg, Ohio ,  Arlin Thorns­bury, of  Waterloo, 
Ia., Donald Gene Thornsbury, of Prestonsburg, and Jimmy Darrell Thornsbury, of 
Melvin; five  brothers and three sisters, Acie Tackett, of Prestons­burg, 
Clarence, Mid and Rans Tackett, all of Garrison, Ky., and Raymond Earl 
Tackett, of Tennessee, Mrs Goldie Mash­burn and Mrs. Birdie Tackett, both of  
Detroit,  Mrs. Marie DePrima, Rochester, N. Y. Six grandchildren also survive. 
 The body was taken Tuesday afternoon from the Merion Funeral Chapel  at 
Martin to Joppa Regular Baptist Church to remain there till the funeral at 10 
a.m. Friday. Burial will be made in the Dry Creek Cemetcry at Topmost . 

Submitted by: Elsa Tackett 
elsa@ekns.net 




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