Statler Family Obituaries
Lape, Mary Belle (nee Browning)
JACKSON - Mrs. Mary Belle Lape, 62 years old, died at a Cape Girardeau
hospital Friday afternoon at 1:40 unexpectedly. Mrs. Lape returned last Saturday from
Denver, Colo., where she served as a secretary for the National American legion
convention.
On an excursion up Pike's Peak near Denver on a few hours (????) Mrs. Lape suffered two
attacks in the high altitude, and on Tuesday entered the hospital for a medical checkup.
Mrs. Lape was born Mary Belle Browning on June 8, 1899 at Allenville, a daughter of Wm.
Browning and Flora Belle Dryden Browning. She has lived most of her life in Jackson. She
was married to Cooper E. Lape, who passed away four years ago.
Mrs. Lape was a past president of the local (????). She and her late husband were
philanthropists, practicing a love for their fellow man, especially children.
To her nieces, Miss Rosebud Call and Mrs. Wib Sewing a few minutes before she passed away
she asked that flowers and gifts in her memory be given as monetary gifts to a small boy
on the same hospital corridor whose family needed it for his medical care. The relatives
plan to carry out her wishes.
She is survived by one half brother, Lawrence Call; a sister, Mrs. Wm. Rose, both of
Jackson, and a number of nieces and nephews.
The body is at Deneke-Laird Funeral Home. The Rev. James H. Brown, pastor of Presbyterian
Chruch will conduct the funeral on Sunday at 2:30 o'clock at the funeral home. Interment
will be in Russell Heights Cemetery.
Obituary was found at the Find A Grave website and was printed in the Saturday, September 23, 1961 edition of the Southeast Missourian newspaper.
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