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Title
William F. Gettle, Robert Gettle, and William F. Gettle Jr. attend the funeral of their wife and mother, Glendale, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued
July-August 1935
1935-07/1935-08
Publication Information
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information
US
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Fleeta Beatrice Gettle has been entombed at the Gettle family section of Fore Lawn Mausoleum beside her infant son who passed in 1931. She is survived by her husband, four children, and a brother and sister.
Mr. Gettle walks down a brick path with his arm around Robert. William Jr. walks behind them. Other unidentified people walk on the same path as the Gettles, and some watch them from the grass.
Photograph appears with the article, "Mrs. Gettle Laid To Rest," Los Angeles Times, 31 July 1935: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: 1441 - Mr Wm F. Gettle at wife's funeral [stamped:] Aug 8- 1935
Handwritten on negative: Mr. Wm F. Gettle
Text from newspaper caption: William F. Gettle, accompanied by two of his children, Robert Girten Gettle, center, and William F. Gettle, Jr., are shown here leaving the Little Church of the Flowers, at which funeral services were conducted yesterday for Mrs. Gettle.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_7972
ark:/21198/zz002dfrrw
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Memorial rites & ceremonies--California--Glendale
Children--California--Glendale
Widowers
Gettle, William F., 1887-1941
Gettle, William Frank, Jr., 1926-2002
Getty family
Gettle, Robert Girten, 1927-1969
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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