The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, Kansas), 29 April 1956, Sun., p. 45

Funeral Rites Tuesday for Winfield Resident

     WINFIELD, KAN., April 28—Final rites for Frank L. Tannehill, 77, Route 5, will be at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Morris Funeral Home here.
     Tannehill, a retired employe of the American Railway Express Co., died Friday at Newton Memorial Hospital here.
     He was born July 1, 1878, at Owosso, Mich.
     Survivors include his widow; a son, Lowell, and a daughter, Phyllis, both of Winfield; another daughter of Chicago; two granddaughters; and five great-grandchildren.

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The Winfield Daily Courier (Winfield, Kansas), 25 April 1958, Fri.

Mrs. Edith Tannehill
Dies on Wednesday

     Mrs. Edith May Tannehill, 77, widow of Frank Tannehill, died Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Chicago at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Hazel Olsen.
     Mrs. Tannehill, who came to Cowley county in 1946* and had been visiting with her daughter in Chicago since October, had been ill for two months.  She was a member of the Baptist church.  Her husband died April 27, 1956.
     Survivors include 2 daughters, Mrs. Olsen and Miss Phyllis L. Tannehill of Chicago; a son, F. L. Tannehill Jr., of Chicago; 2 sisters, Mrs, Myrtle Mercer of Burden and Mrs. Mabel Eastman of McAllen, Tex.; and a brother, Richard Rhine, Route 5, Winfield.

* An earlier report suggests that Edith Mae had moved to Cowley County as early as 1943.