Notes for Florentina Anna DUPREL

Notes for Florentina Anna DUPREL

SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBER: 504 12 8847 state of issue South Dakota
SOURCE: Florence Yanzick Rapid City SD. 1974, Newspaper obit

Florentina Anna Duprel a daughter of Andre Duprel was born in Chicago Illinois, 12 April 1904. She had six brothers and four sisters and grew up on the ranch home of her parents located 22 miles northeast of Sturgis, South Dakota. her parents moved to Sturgis from Chicago when she was two years old. Somehow Florentina's name was changed to Florence when she started school. Florence completed her first eight years of school at the Meyer school, she then attended Black Hills Teachers college at Spearfish, South Dakota. After returning home from school she taught the rural Smith school at Vale, South Dakota.

Florence married George Yanzick in Lead South Dakota. They lived in Lead for two years, her husband worked for the Homestake Gold Mine. In 1924 George decided to work for the railroad in Casper Wyoming. He was laid offf during the 1929 stock market crash. The 1930 depression years were spent working in different mines located at Drystone and Custer South Dakota. George worked as a Hoist and Pump man and Florence as a stenographer / bookkeeper and time keeper. In 1943 they moved to Cheyene, Wyoming where George worked for the Union Pacific Railroad as a fireman and Florence for the Garlett Drug Company as assistant bookkeeper until after World War II. In 1947 they pruchased a Ice Cream Parlor in Spearfish South Dakota and named it the Sweet Shop. They opened a family shoe store at Sturgis South Dakota under the name of Sturgis Shoe Store. The two of them operated the shoe store until the death of her husband in 1967. Florence sold the store and moved to Rapid City South Dakota were she bought a house and converted it into a duplex.

Written by Florence Duprel Yanzick
Rapid City South Dakota (1973)
RECORDS: Marriage License Lawrence County. Death Record.
BORN: Tue MARRIED: Wed DIED: Mon, Age at death 77 years 15 days