Born in Clinton, Kentucky, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Thomas Sanders Gore Jr.
and Katherine (Flanagan) Sanders
Sister of
Thomas Sanders Gore III and Frances F. (Gore) Fishback
Wife of
James Edwin Folkner
— married
29 Apr 1950 in Clinton, Hickman, Kentucky, United States
[children unknown]
Died
at age 96
in Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 19 Apr 2019
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Biography
Mary was the daughter of Thomas Sanders Gore Jr. and Katherine Flanagan.[1][2]
Mary married James F. Folkner on 29 April 1950 at Clinton, Hickman County, Kentucky.[3]
Buried at Chattanooga National Cemetery Obituary April 8, 2013 Chattanooga Times Free Press
Mary Katherine Folkner, 96, devoted mother and loving grandmother, died on Monday, April 1, 2013.
She was born in 1916 in Clinton, KY. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a bachelor's degree in library science and a master's at Western Kentucky. Mary Katherine moved to Chattanooga during World War II while working for TVA as a librarian. Later, she worked at the Chattanooga Public Library. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Chattanooga. She attended the Mary Class Sunday School.
Mary Katherine was preceded in death by her husband of 48 years, James E. Folkner, a World War II Marine Corps veteran, her parents, brother, and sister.
She is survived by her son, James A. and his wife Tracey Folkner and three grandchildren, Jennifer Folkner, James E. Folkner II, and Nicole and her husband, Wesley Walker.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, April 8, 2013 at 1 p.m. at Lane Funeral Home, Ashland Terrace, Chattanooga, TN.
Interment will follow in the Chattanooga National Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 3-5 p.m. on Sunday, April 7, 2013 and 12-1 p.m. on Monday, April 8, at Lane Funeral Home, Ashland Terrace, Chattanooga, TN.
Sources
- ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHLG-QDB : 1 February 2021), Mary K Gore in entry for Thomas Gore, 1920.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMXM-875 : accessed 29 July 2022), Mary K Gore in household of Thomas S Gore, Clinton, Hickman, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 3, sheet 9B, line 78, family 242, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 751; FHL microfilm 2,340,486.
- ↑ "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2D4-F3S1 : 22 July 2021), Jas E Folkner and Mary Katherine Gore, 29 Apr 1950; citing Marriage, Clinton, Hickman, Kentucky, United States, various county clerks and county courts, Kentucky; FHL microfilm 1,843,047.
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