Sunday, June 4, 2023

Pearl Ratcliff Dies of Complications of Influenza, June 4, 1923

Miss Pearl Ratcliff

Miss Pearl Ratcliff of Ratcliff Cove died this morning at an early hour at the home of her mother, Mrs. W.J. Ratcliff after a long illness resulting from influenza, just in the full bloom of young womanhood.

She is survived by her mother, one sister, Mrs. Ratcliff Medford, and one brother, Mr. Mark Ratcliff of Shiprock, New Mexico.

Funeral services will be conducted at the home tomorrow afternoon, at 1 o’clock by Rev. W.M. Robbins, her pastor, and interment will follow at Green Hill cemetery.

Miss Pearl was a fine looking young woman and had many friends and admirers who will greatly miss her in the community.

From the front page of the Carolina Mountaineer and Waynesville Courier, Monday, June 4, 1923

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