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- Billings Gazette
Billings, Yellowstone County, Wy
March 3, 1974
Dockery
Thermopolis, Wyo.
Mrs. Ella Jane Dockery, 95, died Friday in the Wyoming State Sanitarium at Basin.
Born April 22, 1878, in Missouri, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. McCumber. She was brought up in Missouri.
In 1897 she married to H. B. Martin in Colby, Kan. The couple travelled by covered wagon to the Owl Creek Valley, where they homesteaded. Mr. Martin died in 1910.
On May 2, 1921, she married John Dockery in Billings. Mr. Dockery died in 1947.
Mrs. Dockery had lived in the Pioneer Home in Thermopolis before moving to Basin six years ago.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Dora Bales of Baggs and Mrs. Mary Duncan of Thermopolis; six grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and nine great-great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the Mortimore Chapel, with Mr. Larry Bristwo of the Church of Christ officiating. Burial will be in Monument Hill Cemetery.
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