Mary A TUCKER

May 7, 1865 - January 16, 1933
Wife of TO Tucker
Mausoleum

*Obituary
Benton County Herald
Thursday, January 19, 1933

TUCKER, Mary GARIETY - A short funeral service for Mrs. Mary Gariety Tucker, aged 67 years, eight months and nine days, well known former Bentonville resident whose death occurred at a St. Joseph, Mo. hospital on Monday morning, January 16th, 1933 following a long illness, was held in the mausoleum at the Bentonville cemetery at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, conducted by the Rev. Dwight E. Lewis, pastor of the Bentonville Christian Church. Interment was in the mausoleum where rests her hus-band, the late T. Omer Tucker, widely known former Bentonville resident and founder of the T.O. Tucker Abstract Company of this place. Miss Mary Gariety was born in Richmond, Virginia on May 7th, 1865. While still a girl she came with her parents to Bentonville, Ark. and continued to live here for many years. She was married here on May 21st, 1887 to T.O. Tucker. There were no children born into their home but they filled this void by adopting a niece of Mrs. Tucker who, as Frances Tucker, was from her adoption as a very small child the greatest joy and pride of their lives, and whose affection for and loyalty and devotion to her adopted parents has ever been as great as if she were their own by birth. In March 1918 Mrs. Tucker was bereft of her husband and since that time had lived in Kansas City with her daughter, Miss Frances Tucker, who for some years has been a teacher of home economics in one of the Kansas City high schools. Mrs. Tucker was reared in the Catholic Church but after her marriage became a member of the Christian Church to which her husband belonged. She leaves to mourn her passing her daughter, Miss Frances Tucker; two sisters, Mrs. B. Shank of Bellingham, Wash. and Mrs. M. Danahy of Kansas City, and a nephew, Dan Danahy, also of Kansas City. She is also survived by many friends including a large circle of old Bentonville neighbors and other good friends here who well remember Mr. and Mrs. Tucker and their daughter.

*Obituary
Benton County Record & Democrat & Sun
Thursday, January 19, 1933

TUCKER, Mary Garity - Mrs. Mary G. Tucker, aged 68, wife of the late T.O. Tucker, for nearly 30 years in the abstract business in Bentonville, died Monday, Jan. 16, 1933 at a hospital in St. Joseph, Mo. after an illness of over a year. The body was returned to Bentonville Wednesday by motor hearse where funeral services were conducted by Rev. Dwight E. Lewis, pastor of the Christian Church, at the cemetery. The body was laid to rest in the mausoleum where her husband was placed 15 years ago. The body was accompanied from Kansas City by Miss Frances Tucker, her nephew, Dan Danahy, Miss Rose Barton and Mrs. W. Mentzel. Mrs. Mary Garity Tucker was born in Richmond, Va. May 7, 1865. When a girl her parents moved to Benton county and located on a farm near Brightwater. Later they moved to Bentonville where she met and married T.O. Tucker May 21, 1887. No children were born to them but they adopted a niece, Frances, who remained with her and cared for her till the last. Mr. Tucker served a term as deputy circuit clerk and later engaged in the abstract business here over a long period of years. At his death, March 19, 1918, the business was purchased by W.E. Patton who has since continued it under the name of T.O. Tucker Abstract Co. At the death of her husband Mrs. Tucker moved to Kansas City where she made her home with her daughter, Frances Tucker, a teacher in the Kansas City public schools. About a year ago she was taken to a hospital in St. Joseph for treatment. Mrs. Tucker was brought up in the faith of the Catholic Church but after her marriage to Mr. Tucker she joined the Christian Church here. Besides her adopted daughter, Miss Frances Tucker, and her nephew, Dan Danahy, she is survived by two sisters, Mrs. M. Danahy of Kansas City and Mrs. B. Shank of Bellingham, Wash.

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