Blanche Katherine McNerney

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CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
APRIL 6, 1938

DEATH OF MRS. R. K. HALLETT
PROMINENT CARTHAGE WOMAN BORN HERE 47 YEARS AGO

Funeral Services for Daughter of Mrs. P. J. McNerney
Will Be Friday Afternoon

Mrs. Blanche Kathryn Hallett, wife of Ralph K. Hallett, passed away shortly before 8 o'clock this morning at the home of her mother, Mrs. P. J. McNerney, 1615 Grand Avenue. She had long suffered from a heart disease.

Born in Carthage August 15, 1890, Mrs. Hallett grew up here and was graduated from the Carthage High School in 1909. That fall she entered the University of Missouri at Columbia and received both her A. B. degree in the college of arts and science and her B. S. in education there in 1913. The following year, Mrs. Hallett taught in the high school at Lamar and in the fall of 1914 she was elected head of the history department in the Carthage High School, which position she held until 1917.

On July 14, 1917, Blanche McNerney was married to Ralph K. Hallett in San Francisco, California where Mr. Hallett was employed as a civil engineer for the Hercules Powder Company. Later they were returned to Carthage by the company. In 1928 they moved to Wilmington, Delaware and while Mr. Hallett was doing construction work near New Brunswick, New Jersey, Mrs. Hallett attended Rutgers College of New Jersey at New Brunswick where she recieved her master's degree in guidance in 1929. She was one of the first four women to receive a degree from Rutgers, which is a men's school.

Mrs. Hallett, a member of a prominent pioneer family of Carthage was a leader in clubs and other organizations of the city. She was a charter member of the Junior Tourist club and of the Joplin-Carthage branch, American Association of University Women. She also served as president of both organizations.
Mrs. Hallett was active in Parent-Teacher Association work in the city and served one year as president of the General Council and it was under her guidance the free milk fund for underprivileged school children was started.
She was for many years active in the First Methodist Episcopal Church and Sunday school.
Mrs. Hallett was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at the University of Missouri.

She is survived by her husband, Ralph K. Hallett

two sons;
Ralph Jr., a sophomore at Westminister College,
Fulton, Missouri
Joseph, a cadet at Wentworth Military Academy,
Lexington, Missouri

her mother; Mrs. P. J. McNerney

her sister; Miss Martha McNerney, both of Carthage

Mr. Hallett, who is superintendent of the Soil Conservation Service at California, MO. and the two sons arrived here early this morning.

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Home she occupied from 1913:

The land was acquired in 1893 and the house built sometime after that for $6,000 by S. H. Houser. Shortly after completion Houser, a foundry owner, declared bankruptcy. Purchased by P J McNerney in 1913 who removed the turret in the 1930s because of a water leak problem, owned till his widowed wife died in 1952. (is currently, Grand Avenue Bed and Breakfast)

(Medical):See attached sources.

Blanche married Ralph King Hallett, I on 14 Jul 1917 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA. Ralph (son of Charles Russell Hallett and May King) was born on 27 Jul 1888 in Toronto, Woodson County , Kansas, USA; died on 18 Jan 1973 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA; was buried in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA, Los Angeles National Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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