Elva Violet Cornish

Territorial Women's Memorial Rose Garden

ELVA VIOLET BURLESON CORNISH

Violet was born 3 April 1913 in Humboldt, Arizona, the daughter of Elve Lessard Breckenridge and Joseph L. Burleson.

She and her husband, Keith, a grademan with the Yavapai County Highway Department, lived, in the early 1950s at 301 Navajo Drive.

Violet was the owner and proprietor of Maggie's Steak House on 504 E. Sheldon Street. Violet had two daughters: Dorothy June Lorance and Margaret Frances Loman. She was a Christian Scientist.

Violet died in Prescott and was interred at Mountain View Cemetery on 19 September 1956. Her mother, Elva Breckenridge, her grandmother Virginia Lessard and four great-aunts are also represented in the Rose Garden.

Donor: Elva Breckenridge

NOTE: Above info came from FAG contributor-Sharla(#46940689)

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Parents:

 Joseph Lafayette Burleson (1889 - 1953)

 Elva Violet Lessard Breckenridge (1894 - 1973)

Siblings:

 Elva Violet Burleson Cornish (1913 - 1956)

 Beatrice Lee Burleson Gill (1914 - 1999)*

 Hazel Anna Burleson (1922 - 1923)*

 Ina Mae Breckenridge Rubi (1933 - 2011)**

*Calculated relationship

• *Half-sibling

Burial: Mountain View Cemetery Prescott Yavapai County Arizona, USA

Created by: Betty Record added: Dec 17, 2010 Find A Grave Memorial# 63001361