PRIEST, Magnolia - Putnam

Mrs. Maggie Priest, age 78, widow of Newton Priest, expired yesterday at 6 p.m. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jess Breese, 1505 Pearl Street. Her husband died in 1948. The body was taken to the Sells & Roe Funeral Home.  Complete funeral arrangements are pending. She is survived by in addition to her daughter, two sons, Roy and Orville Priest, both of Anderson: 17 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.  A niece, Mrs. John T. Rock, Anderson also survives. – kbz

Source: Anderson Herald 10 May 1952 p 2

Last rites for Mrs. Magnolia A. (Maggie) Priest, age 73, who died Thursday at the home of a daughter Mrs. Blanche Breese, 1505 Pearl Street after an extended illness, will be at 3 p.m. today in the Sells & Rowe Funeral Home, where friends are being received. The deceased had been a resident of Madison County for approximately 50 years.  – kbz