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INDIVIDUAL NOTES:
Delayed Birth Certificate from Boone County, Missouri:
- Date of Birth was June 17, 1912
- Father was Fred Rigel
- Mother was Leona "maiden name unknown"
- Filed on January 28, 1971
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Article published in the University Missourian, Boone County, Missouri dated January 21, 1912:
Baby Saved by Grandmother
Home of Fred Rigel Damaged by Fire Yesterday
The baby of Mrs. Fred Rigel, wife of a blacksmith here who lives at 605 North Fourth Street was saved from a burning house yesterday afternoon when Mrs. Rigel's mother rushed into the burning house, wrapped the baby in a blanket and carried it out to safety.
Mrs. Rigel and her mother were out in the yard talking to a neighbor when they were warned that their house was on fire. The baby was brought out just before the roof fell in the hall.
The fire which resulted from a defective flue, left the walls badly charred in spite of the efforts of the fire department. Scarcely any of the furniture was saved, however, the loss is partly covered by insurance. The house was owned by Ned Gordon.
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1920 Boone County, Missouri census:
- HH # 294, Columbia Ward 1, Enumeration District # 14
- Lives on Lyon St
- Age 8, single, living with parents
- Attended school in census year
- Born in Missouri, father in Missouri, mother in Missouri
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1930 Boone County, Missouri census:
- HH # 592, Columbia Township, Enumeration District # 12
- Lived on 3rd Avenue
- Surname was "Burks"
- Age 18, widowed. Living with daughter in household of father Fred Rigel
- Able to read and write
- Born in Missouri, father in Missouri, mother in Missouri
- Speaks English
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1940 Boone County, Missouri census (microfilm):
- HH # 405, Columbia Township, Enumeration District 10-15
- Age 28, married to Robert Schneider
- Education level completed was high school, 1st year
- Born in Missouri, residence was Bagnell, Miller County, Missouri in 1935
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Death certificate from Callaway County, Missouri:
- Date of death was August 4, 1980
- Place of death was Fulton State Hospital
- Social Security Number was 490-07-1079D (note: this is actually her husband's Robert Schneider's SSN. The letter D at the end means widowed)
- Cause of death was heart failure due to chronic and severe Huntington's chorea and dehydration
- Widowed
- Occupation was housewife
- Date of birth was June 17, 1911
- Father was Fred Rigel
- Mother was Leona Dunham
- Informant was Bernice Shankar, Route 5, Columbia, Boone County, Missouri
- Burial was in Maple Hill Cemetery in Kirksville, Adair County, Missouri on August 8, 1980
- Undertaker was Davis Funeral Home
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Obituary published in the Kirksville Daily Express, Adair County, Missouri dated August 6, 1980:
Thelma Schneider
Thelma Schneider, 69, formerly of Kirksville, died Monday evening (Aug. 4, 1980) at 6:30 in a hospital in Fulton. Before entering the hospital she had been a resident of LaPlata Nursing Home.
The daughter of Fred and Leona Rigel, she was born June 17, 1911 at Columbia. In 1932 at Columbia, she was married to Robert I. Schneider who preceded her death on Apr. 22, 1959.
Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Shui (Bernice) Shankar of Wichita, Kan. and several grandchildren.
Mrs. Schneider reside in Kirksville for a number of years.
Graveside service will be held Friday afternoon (Aug. 8, 1980) at one o'clock in Maple Hills cemetery. The Rev. John Millsaps, Jr., pastor of the First United Methodist Church, will conduct the services.
The body is at the Davis Funeral Home where it will remain until service time. The casket is closed and will remain closed.
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From Social Security Death Index:
Name: Thelma Schneider
SSN: 500-50-6217
Last Residence: 63501 Kirksville, Adair, Missouri, United States of America
Born: 17 Apr 1911
Died: Aug 1980
State (Year) SSN issued: Missouri (1963)
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Thelma Mae Rigel had Huntington's Disease. This is a hereditary disease that is passed on from one of the parents. She died in 1980 at the age of 69 in the State Hospital in Fulton, Callaway County, Missouri after an extended stay.
She likely contracted this disease from her father Frederick Western Rigel (see his notes for more information). She unknowingly passed the disease on to her one and only child, Ethel Bernice Burks.
Description and Symptoms of Huntington's Disease:
Early symptoms of Huntington's Disease may affect cognitive ability or mobility and include depression, mood swings, forgetfulness, clumsiness, involuntary twitching and lack of coordination. As the disease progresses, concentration and short-term memory diminish and involuntary movements of the head, trunk and limbs increase. Walking, speaking and swallowing abilities deteriorate. Eventually the person is unable to care for him or herself. Death follows from complications such as choking, infection or heart failure.
Huntington's Disease typically begins in mid-life, between the ages of 30 and 50, though onset may occur as early as the age of two. Children who develop the juvenile form of the disease rarely live to adulthood.
Huntington's Disease affects males and females equally and crosses all ethnic and racial boundaries. Each child of a person with HD has a 50/50 chance of inheriting the fatal gene. Everyone who carries the gene will develop the disease.
Huntington's Disease does not "skip" generations.
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