Florence Estella GABRIEL^[1]

1920 - 2011  (90 years)

• Name	Florence Estella GABRIEL
  Nickname	Flossie
  Birth	9 Sep 1920	Wilmington, New Castle Co, DE   [1, 2]
  	Flossie was delivered at 6:15pm on 9 September 1920 by Dr. Paul R. Smith at 9 West 27th Street, her parents' Wilmington, Delaware home.
  Gender	Female
  Occupation	1942 - 1946	Richmond City, VA
  	During 1942 and 1943, Flossie was employed as a clerk at Morris Plan Bank in Richmond, Virginia. She was employed as a stenographer in the Richmond offices of the Virginia State Highway Department from 1944 through 1946.
  NCHG	Sep 1976
  	Following her September 1976 divorce from Ted, Flossie legally changed her last name from "Baumgartner" to "Bumgarner".
  Death	20 Jun 2011  [2]
  	Flossie died on 20 June 2011. She was 90 years old at the time of her death. Her last residence was Snow Hill, North Carolina.
  funeral	22 Jun 2011	Lenoir County, NC   [3]
  	A graveside funeral service was conducted at 2:00pm on Wednesday, 22 June 2011, at Pinelawn Memorial Park in Lenoir County, North Carolina by Rev. R. Martin Armstrong of Calvary Memorial United Methodist Church in Snow Hill, North Carolina.
  Burial	22 Jun 2011	Lenoir County, NC   [3]
  	Interment followed in the Gabriel family plot at Pinelawn.
  Person ID	I28562	mason
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	Paul Hermann GABRIEL, Sr.,   b. 4 Feb 1899, Wilmington, New Castle Co, DE d. 8 Jul 1981, Morehead City, Carteret Co, NC (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Florence Estella LOGUE,   b. 11 Nov 1899, Wilmington, New Castle Co, DE d. 15 Dec 1985, Greenville, Pitt Co, NC (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	26 Nov 1919	Wilmington, New Castle Co, DE   [4]
  	Rev. T. P. Mordecai, Presbyterian minister, married the couple at 7:45pm on 26 November 1919 at the Wilmington, Delaware home of the bride's parents. James Logue, the bride's father, Myrtle Major, the bride's sister, and Fred Gabriel, the groom's brother, stood as witnesses to the ceremony.
  Photos » Slide Show		Flo & Paul, c.1919.
  		Florence Logue Gabriel, wedding portrait, 1919.
  		Paul, Sr., Paul Jr., Flossie & Flo Gabriel, 1923/1924.
  		Flo & Paul, Sound View Park home, January 1962.
  		Paul & Flo, Sound View Park, NC home, c. 1976.
  Family ID	F1493	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ted Tenny BAUMGARTNER,   b. 10 Nov 1921, Sebring, Mahoning Co, OH d. 18 Jan 1977, Kinston, Lenoir Co, NC (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	6 Apr 1948	Richmond City, VA   [5]
  	The couple was married on 6 April 1948 by Rev. John Jacob Scherer, Jr. at First English Evangelical Lutheran Church in Richmond, Virginia.
  Children	1. Richard Tenny BAUMGARTNER   2. Sara Lynn BAUMGARTNER,   b. 4 Oct 1954, Greenville, Pitt Co, NC d. 27 Jul 2014 (Age 59 years)   3. Thomas Paul BAUMGARTNER
  Family ID	F1494	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

• Photos		Flossie, Ward-Belmont Junior College yearbook picture c.1936.
  		Flossie, c.1943.

  
  

• Sources

  [S471] Florence Estella Gabriel, Delaware birth certificate no. 5929 (1920). [S3157] Florence G. Bumgarner. SSDI. Ancestry.com. [S3158] Florence Estelle Bumgarner obituary, The Free Press, (Kinston, NC) 21 - 24 June 2011. [S554] Paul Hermann Gabriel - Florence Estella Logue, Delaware marriage certificate no. 1027 (1919). [S472] Theodore Tenny Baumgartner - Florence Estella Gabriel, Virginia certificate of marriage no. 10093 (1948).