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Portrait of Eleonora Kirstine Jensen Purcell
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Eleonora Kirstine Jensen Purcell

October 20, 1890 – October 29, 1958
Lived 68 years
Morris Hill Cemetery · Boise Ada County, Idaho
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Services for Eleanor K. Purcell, 1706 West Jefferson street, will be held Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at Summers chapel with Dr. Frank L. Rearick officiating. Interment will be at Morris Hill.

Mrs. Purcell, who died Wednesday night in a Boise hospital, was born Oct. 20, 1890 at Myrtle, Minn. She had been a resident of Boise for 35 years. Before coming here she resided in Eureka, Calif. She was a member of the Presbyterian church.

Mrs. Purcell is survived by two sons, Merlin and Robert Purcell, both of Boise; a brother, Lawrence Jensen, Eugene, Ore., and a sister, Mrs. Josephine Burnette, also of Eugene, and three grandchildren.

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1890
Born October 20
1892
Eleonora was 2 when Ellis Island opened to welcome immigrants
1903
Eleonora was 13 when the Wright brothers made the first powered flight
1914
Eleonora was 24 when World War I began in Europe
1928
Eleonora was 38 when Mickey Mouse debuted in "Steamboat Willie"
1939
Eleonora was 49 when "Gone with the Wind" premiered in Atlanta
1944
Eleonora was 54 when Allied troops landed at Normandy on D-Day
1951
Eleonora was 61 when "I Love Lucy" debuted on CBS
1958
Passed away October 29, age 68
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