Mabel Florence Bridges

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Mabel Florence Bridges, age 101, former resident of Guest Home Estates and more recently of Fort Scott Manor, died Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008, at Mercy Health Center. She was born July 29, 1906, in Mulberry, Kan., the daughter of Orville James Fulton and Tillie Esther Hunsicker Fulton. Mabel was a 1924 graduate of Fort Scott High School. After graduation, she went to work at J.C. Penney Company. She worked there until she married Wayman Bridges on Jan. 1, 1928, in Fort Scott. He preceded her in death in 1962. She worked at the Western Insurance Company until retiring in 1968. Mabel moved to Reno, Nev., for a period to be with her brother in the motel business. She returned to Fort Scott where she enjoyed volunteer work and bowling. Mabel won the Kansas State Doubles Bowling tournament in 1959. At the time of her death, she was the oldest member of the First Baptist Church.

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