McBRIDE, Effie Willhite - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Mrs. Effie May McBride, 83, whose trailer home was demolished in the Palm Sunday tornado died at Culver Hospital at 12:05 a.m. Sunday after suffering a broken hip Thursday. She had been residing at the ben Hur Home. A physician said the injuries which she sustained in the April 11 storm which hopsitalized her for 16 days, were not contributing factors to the elderly woman's death. The tornado which struck her trailer east of Crawfordsville was the second one which had radically changed her life. She and her husband, Freeman had operated the McBride General Store in Rob Roy from 1921-1953. On April 9, 1953, a tornado demolished the store and all the personal effects of the McBrides. The oldest of 8 children and the last to survive, she was born August 31, 1881, in Coal Creek Townsip in Montgomery County to John and Mary Emily Fowler Willhite. She married Freeman McBride October 20, 1903, at Stone Bluff. They moved to Rob Roy and started the store in 1921. Her husband died in November 1962. After the tornado destroyed the McBride store at Rob Roy they retired and moved to Wingate. In May ,1964, she moved to Shiloh Hill east of Crawfordsville near the home of a niece, Mrs. Garnal L. Scott. She was a member of the Mellott Christian Church. Survivors include two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Pearle McBride Weigle of Attica and Mrs. Daisy Brandenburg of Mellott; a brother-in-law, Cecil Boze of Crawfordsville, and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband and a foster daughter. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Bright Funeral Home, Rev. E. Leon Willhite will officiate. Burial in Willhite Cemetery near Wingate. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Tuesday.