Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963
Name: Everett Walter Haskell
Birth Date: 6 Apr 1894
Death Date: 13 Nov 1960
Cemetery: Forest Lawn Cemetery
Cemetery Location: Erlanger, Kentucky
Enlisted: February 26, 1918
Discharged: July 17, 1919
Corp., US Army, Co. K, 1 Pioneer Inf.
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U.S., Lists of Men Ordered to Report to Local Board for Military Duty, 1917– 1918
Name: Everett Walter Haskell
Gender: Male
Entrainment Date: 26 Feb 1918
Entrainment Camp: Camp Taylor
Local Board: Kenton, Kentucky, USA
Residence Year: Abt 1918
75118. Everett Walter Haskell Jr.
U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Name: Everett L Haskell
Birth Year: 1923
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Connecticut
State of Residence: Connecticut
County or City: New London
Enlistment Date: 16 Feb 1943
Enlistment State: Connecticut
Enlistment City: Hartford
Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Grade: Private
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 4 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Skilled occupations in manufacture of textiles, n.e.c.
Marital status: Single, without dependents
Height: 67
Weight: 118
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U.S. Veterans' Gravesites, ca.1775-2019
Name: Everett W Haskell
Death Age: 73
Birth Date: 7 Feb 1923
Death Date: 31 Dec 1996
Cemetery Address: C/O Lorberg Funl Chapel Inc 829 North West End Blvd Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
Cemetery: Memorial Park Cemetery
Interment Place: Missouri
Notes: SGT US ARMY WORLD WAR II
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U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
Name: Everett Haskell
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 27 Feb 1923
Death Date: 31 Dec 1996
SSN: 407120302
Branch 1: A
Enlistment Date 1: 29 Jan 1943
Release Date 1: 25 Jan 1946
Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Funeral Home
Gertie Mae Haskell, 93, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, February 10, 2025 at Chateau Girardeau.
She was born June 25, 1931 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky to George Raymond and Ola Agnes Henderson Goode.
She and Gerold Donovan Thompson were married in Kentucky and he preceded her in death on June 23, 1974. She later married Everett Haskell on April 15, 1978 in Cape Girardeau. He preceded her on December 31, 1996.
Gertie liked gardening and taking care of plants.
Survivors include five children, Eric (Luella) Thompson of Cape Girardeau, Teri "Schatzee" (Peter) Moore of New Hampshire, Toni Thompson of Lindsborg, Kansas; Mark (Debbie) Thompson of Chilowee, Missouri and Leif (Carla) Thompson of Georgia; eleven grandchildren, Nicole Huff, Shane Thompson, Reece Thompson, Lucas Thompson, Molly Lazar, Cale Holdsworth, Keir Holdsworth, Cody Thompson, Brianna Sievers, Kyia Thompson and Morgan; two sisters, Wanda Davis and Partrcia Levay; and a sister-in-law, Doris Ann Goode.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husbands and nine siblings.
Burial will be at Lorimier Cemetery in Cape Girardeau.
The Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH)
February 7, 1974Betty Ann (nee Dreesman); wife of Everett Haskell; mother of Dale Haskell. Mrs. Sue DeKelver of Madison, Wisconsin, Patricia, Richard, and Scott Haskell; dear daughter of Mrs. A. B. Dressman; dear sister of Mrs. Charles Brown, Mrs. Lee Foltz, Robert and Alfred Dressman and John Dressman; one grandchild.
The Kentucky Post
March 29, 2001Lucille B. Haskell Houston, 91, of Florence, died at 1:10 p.m. Tuesday at St. Luke Hospital West, Florence.
She was a homemaker and a member of Erlanger Christian Church and the Christian Women's Fellowship. She was a former member of the Erlanger Women's Club and a volunteer with Patty A. Clay Hospital, Richmond.
Her husband, Dr. Wilbur R. Houston, died in 1983. A daughter, Sue Ewing, died in 1986.
Survivors include daughters, Caroline Harris of Florence and Nancy Thompson of Dayton; 10 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
May 24, 2006He was known as "Hop" and y'all should know he really put Florence on the map.
Carroll M. "Hop" Ewing was the mayor of Florence for 20 years and among his myriad achievements was an inspired change to a great big sign that still catches the fancy of folks today.
Faced with the fact that the words "Florence Mall" on a water tower were illegal in 1974 because it advertised something that hadn't yet been built, and faced with the fact that Florence didn't have enough money to repaint the entire tower, Ewing came up with the idea of changing "Mall" to "Y'all."
Every day, thousands of people driving past the water tower still get a big kick out of Florence's southern hospitality, courtesy of Mr. Ewing. "Simply put, Hop was a great, great guy," said Florence Council Member Ted Bushelman.
Mr. Ewing, 81, of Florence, died Tuesday at St. Luke Hospital West in Florence after suffering a heart attack. His death was a shock to his family and friends. "On Monday, he worked all day in the yard, then did some plumbing, took a shower, watched the Reds game on TV and went to bed, just like everything was fine," said Mr. Ewing's daughter, Diane Whalen, the current mayor of Florence. "It had been an ordinary day for him. His death was a complete surprise."
The Henry County native served in the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II and during the Korean War. He taught school many years and retired in 1984 from the Boone County Schools.
Mr. Ewing was the mayor of Florence for five consecutive terms spanning 20 years from 1961 to 1981. As mayor, he was instrumental in bringing the former Booth Hospital to Florence, where today it is St. Luke Hospital West. He was influential in starting the Northern Kentucky Industrial Park Area, setting up a city water and sewer system for Florence and getting Florence Mall built. When the mall opened in 1976, it was the first two-level mall in Greater Cincinnati and all of Kentucky.
The mall helped to transform not only Florence, but all of the surrounding Northern Kentucky region, into an economic juggernaut. The mall led to a complete reshaping of the area's retail landscape. "There was nothing like the Florence Mall anywhere on this side of the (Ohio) River and that definitely opened up a whole new world," said Whalen. "Florence Mall was the catalyst for the regional shopping mecca that we have become."
Mr. Ewing was president of the Boone County Jaycees, a member of Optimist International and worked with the Kentucky State Police to start Trooper Island. He was an active member of Florence United Methodist Church, on the church's board of trustees and helped arrange funding for the Aldersgate senior housing project.
Mr. Ewing raised cattle and tobacco on a farm and enjoyed the farm life. He was handy with woodworking and home repairs. As a summer venture, he did roofing and gutter repairs.
"He was a little bit of everything," said Whalen. "He was almost larger than life. He didn't do things halfway. It was 100 percent all the time. When he believed in something, he gave it his all.
"His favorite thing in the world was family, and he had a huge family." Mr. Ewing was an influential school teacher. "People come up to me and say he was the best teacher they ever had," said Whalen. Whalen said she is constantly reminded of the progress the city made while her father was mayor. "Everywhere I look, I can see his touch," she said.
Bushelman fondly recalled when he and Mr. Ewing hosted a radio program. "We had a heck of a listening audience because Hop would just say whatever he thought," said Mr. Bushelman. "We would play a little music and do a lot of talking. Hop's idea of a radio show was a whole lot of talking and people loved it."
Mr. Bushelman recollected when he collaborated with Mr. Ewing to try to remedy the Florence Mall water tower sign problem in 1974. "I started at the top of the alphabet to try to come up with something and he started at the bottom of the alphabet and came up with Yall," said Bushelman. "I told him, 'Come on, that's not even a word.' He said, 'When I put the apostrophe in there it will be.'
Surviving in addition to his daughter are a son, Alan Ewing of Irving, Texas; daughters, Elizabeth Brown of Hopkinsville, Rebecca Ewing Daley of Erlanger, Carol Robey of Fordsville and Emily Gillum of Walton; stepdaughters, Colleen VanBenshoten and Candice Dawson, both of Florence, and Rebecca Hudson of Milford, Ohio; a brother, Rev. John Ewing of Kissimmee, Fla.; sisters, Nelda Cannon of Louisville and Evelyn Glass of South Carolina; 12 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
The Kentucky Enquirer
March 6, 2015
Mary "Caroline" Houston Harris, 84, of Florence, died Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at Dover Manor Nursing Home, Georgetown, Kentucky.Mary was born on April 12, 1930 in Cincinnati to the late Wilbur R. Houston, MD and Lucille B. Haskell Houston.
She was a homemaker and member of Erlanger Christian Church.
She is survived by son, William (Martha) Harris of Georgetown, daughter Amy (Jerry) Smith of Deltona, Florida, grandchildren, Chance Smith, Jensen Smith, Ben Harris and 5 nieces, 2 nephews and many cousins. Preceded in death by her husband, Ira Richard Harris, sisters, Sue Ewing, Nancy Thompson and 1 niece.
The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
August 14, 2002Nancy L. Thompson, 68, of Bath Township, Ohio, formerly of Erlanger, died Saturday at Hospice of Dayton, Ohio. She was a retired teacher with Fairborn City Schools in Ohio and was a member of Bethel Christian Assembly of God, Dayton, Ohio.
Survivors include her husband, George E. Thompson; a son, Mark H. Thompson of Fairborn; a daughter, Suzanne Meredith of Champaign County, Ohio; a sister, Mary Caroline Harris of Kentucky; and two grandchildren.
Detroit Free Press
January 9, 1983Osborne, Florence P.. Jan. F, 1983, age 62. Beloved wife of Norman Lee Cupelli; sister of Margaret Nieblas.