Ressa was born in 1905 in Indiana, USA. Her parents were Gayer Knight and Pearl Trueblood. [1]They were still in Indiana in 1940. She died in Broward County, Florida. When she passed away, she was buried in the Garden of the Last Supper, Tallahassee Memory Gardens, Tallahassee, Florida, next to her husband.
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↑ Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Film Number: 002169928.
"United States Census, 1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7SJ-6DD : accessed 15 May 2015), Russa J Crook in household of Louis G Crooks, Detroit (Districts 0751-0879), Wayne, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0777, sheet 33A, family 5, line 20, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1063; FHL microfilm 2,340,798. * "United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1RK-Y6G : accessed 15 May 2015), Ressa Crooks in household of Lewis G Crooks, Center Township, Delaware, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 18-37, sheet 30B, family 654, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 1038.
Information recorded by Carolyn Martin from grave marker at Garden of the Last Supper in Tallahassee Memory Gardens (cemetery), Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, USA.
"Find A Grave Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVK3-9Z6Z : accessed 15 May 2015), Ressa Jean Crooks, 1966; Burial, Tallahassee, Leon, Florida, United States of America, Memory Gardens Cemetery; citing record ID 33889413, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
"Florida Death Index, 1877-1998," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VV3G-9CB : accessed 15 May 2015), Ressa Jean Crooks, Jul 1966; from "Florida Death Index, 1877-1998," index, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : 2004); citing vol. 2842, certificate number 33083, Florida Department of Health, Office of Vital Records, Jacksonville.
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