Ethel Lail Armstrong, Great Bend, Kanasas passed away July 20, 1974. She was born April 8, 1894 in Shamrock, Missouri, the daughter of Joseph Samuel and Martha A. Dillard Lail. On March 3, 1917 she was married to William S. Armstrong who passed away February 23, 1960. Ethel attended William Wood College of Fulton, Missouri and was a graduate of the University of Missouri of Columbia. At the end of the second term of her teaching career, she joined her husband in Colorado. In 1924 she and her husband returned and became partners in the mercantile business with her father J.S. Lail in his country store in Shamrock, Missouri. After her husband's death in 1960, due to poor health she moved to Kansas to reside with her daughter Billie Sue. Survivors include two daughters, Billie Sue Reiter, Great Bend, Kansas and Betty Frances Nudelman, St. Petersburg, Missouri, A son Larry Armstrong of Minnesota and a sister, Mrs. Frances Northland, Acala, Florida. She was also survived by eight grandchildren. Funeral services were held at Liberty Christian Church of which she was a member.
Source: The Shamrock, Page 50
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