Saturday, September 29, 2018

Lulu Ethel Countess (1884-1953)

Lulu Ethel Countess was born on 24 March 1884 in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware. She died on 11 January 1953 in Sacramento, Sacramento, California. She is buried in East Lawn Memorial Park in Sacramento, Sacramento, California.

Lulu Ethel Countess' birth certificate

Lulu Countess' birth register

Lulu Ethel Countess' headstone
The Morning News, 12 January 1953
Miss Lulu E. Countiss, 69, formerly of Wilmington, died Saturday in Sacramento, Calif., where she had lived for the past 12 years.
   Miss Countiss was the daughter of the late John and Louisa Countiss. While living in Wilmington she was employed for a number of years by the DuPont Company, retiring because of illness. She was a member of Old Swedes Church and its Woman's Auxiliary.
   Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Edith Schaal, with whom she made her home in Sacramento, and three cousins, Mrs. May Elliott of Philadelphia, Harold Wilkins of Elsmere Manor, and Mrs. Florence Palfry of Brookland Terrance.
   Funeral services will be held tomorrow at the Andrews & Greilich Funeral Home, Sacramento. Interment also will take place in that city.

PARENTS
John Henry Countess
Louisa E. Wilkinson

SOURCES
  • 1900 census, Wilmington Hundred, Precinct 56 Wilmington City Ward 7, New Castle, Delaware
  • 1910 census, Wilmington Ward 8, New Castle, Delaware 
  • 1920 census, Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware
  • 1930 census, Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware 
  • 1940 census, Wilmington Rep. District #3, New Castle, Delaware
  • Find A Grave 
  • The Morning News (Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware) 12 January 1953 
  • The News Journal (Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware) 12 January 1953
  • The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, California) 12 January 1953 

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