Abstract of Death Record of Emma (Gibson) Calkins Waggoner Boll, 1898-1975

This abstract was contracted from a professional researcher by a Calkin's cousin --

Death Record 

Source: L.A. County D/R  D1975 0021735

Decedent: Emma Boll

Personal: Female, Cauc, Widowed, 76

Address: 110-D W Maple, Glendale, CA

DOB: 9-3-1898                   POB: KS

Occupation: Companion, 20 yrs

Industry: Mary Gower, Companion

Father: C.L. Gibson, b. KY

Mother: Ella Gurwell, b. KS

In County: 32 yrs

In California: 43 yrs

Citizenship: USA

DOD: 5-7-1975, 8:55pm

POD: Glendale Convalescent Hosp; Glendale, CA (409 W Glenoaks Blvd)

SSN: 565-09-9843

Spouse: -----

Informant: Walter D. Calkins, 110-D W Maple; Glendale, CA

Disposition: Cremation, Westwood Memorial Park

Funeral Director: Westwood Village Mortuary

Cause of Death: Metastatic Carcinoma of breast, 18 mos

Contributing Cause: Left Carcinoma of breast, 2 yrs

Other: -----

Autopsy: No

Emma Gibson Boll was my great-aunt on my mother's paternal side.


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Treasure Chest Thursday: Emma's Mug, Part 2

In a previous post I lamented not knowing where was my mug that was hand-painted by my great-aunt Emma Gibson.  So my brother sent me pictures of his.

Well I found mine!  Here are pictures of my ceramic mug hand-painted by my great-aunt Emma Gibson Calkins Boll, who passed away in 1975 age seventy-seven.  This mug is about fifty-one years old.  Amazing it is still intact.

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Emma Waggoner Calkins Boll (nee. Gibson, 1898-1975)

My grand-aunt Emma.  My mom's aunt on her father's side.  Everyone loved Emma.  She was charming and giving, loving and caring, especially for her family.

She grew up around men.  She was the middle child with two older brothers and two younger brothers.  Her mom died when she was only twenty, and only had her father.  She was married three times.  I was told she did not have good taste in men until her last husband Gordon Boll.  With her second husband she had her only son Walter Delbert Calkins, Jr. (1919-1998).  There were no closer mother and son.  She spoiled him, and he worshiped her.

Emma was an extremely talented artist.  She made little coffee mugs for my younger brother and I after he was born.  Handpainted them, and wrote our names on them.  Perhaps my greatest regret is not taking better care of that mug.  I have lost track where it is or what happened to it.

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Gibsons

Here we have a picture of my great-grandfather and his five surviving children and one grand-child.  From left to right Wallace "Hoot" Gibson (1905-1968), Leo Gibson (1892-1967), Emma Gibson Boll Calkins Waggoner (1898-1972), Ira Gibson (1890-1966), my grandfather Bruce Gibson (1902-1994), and my great-grandfather Charles L. Gibson (1858-1938).  In front is Emma's son Walter D. Calkins (1919-1998).

At the time of this picture the family could have been in Kansas, Oklahoma, or Arizona.  Most likely Arizona, looking at g-grandpa's arm and seeing he has already has his stroke.  This is probably my grandfather's logging business, and those are his trucks lined up in the background.

A lot more research is required here.  And later I will have to post more on the difficulty in tracking down my g-grandfather.

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