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- [S7580] Find a Grave: HARRELL Deborah Massey 1920-1993, Deborah H "Debbie" Harrell Miller Rice Massey AKA Frankie Miller.
BIRTH 9 Aug 1920 DEATH 13 May 1993 (aged 72) BURIAL Sunset Memory Garden Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana MEMORIAL ID 101301517
DEBORAH HARRELL never married Leland Ross Holliday, but was in an ongoing relationship with him from about 1938 until she shot him in 1950.
She married Harlan Miller in 1942, left him in 1948, and divorced him in 1949. During that time, she went by the name of Frankie Miller. Holliday also divorced his wife about 1949. On 19 March 1950, Frankie found Holliday with another woman and shot him in a jealous rage. At a sensational trial in Frankfort, Indiana, Frankie testified that Holliday had tortured her, and showed the all-male jury where he had burned her with his cigarette. She was convicted of Manslaughter and was sentenced to the Indiana Women’s Prison for a term of 2-21 years.
After she was pardoned in 1952, she went back to being called Debby and married a man named Rice. She later married Robert Henry Massey, and they were still married when she died on 13 May 1993.
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- [S1746] Newspapers.com: Obituary of Deborah Massey • Kokomo Tribune - May 1993, (Name: Kokomo Tribune; Location: Kokomo, Indiana; Date: 15 May 1993;), Deborah Harrell Massey Obituary.
Deborah Massey, 72, 1530 Meadowbrook Drive, died at 9:07 pm Thursday, May 13,1993, at Saint Joseph Hospital and Health Center.
She was born Aug 9, 1920, in Tamms IL, a daughter of Richard E and Minnie J (Batty) Harrell. Nov 24, 1956, in Kokomo, she married Robert H Massey, who survives.
She was a homemaker, who had worked approximately 15 years at Union Carbide at Haynes Stellite and as a manager at Massey Carpet Serging. She was a member of the Stellar Club and Maha Shrine Guild. Also surviving are a brother, Woodrow Harrell of Hanaford CA; a sister-in-law, Ellen Harrell of Hanaford; a sister, Dickie James of Auburndale FL; a brother-in-law, Charles James of Auburndale; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by three sisters, Opal Martin, Gussie Tomlinson and Mildred Bennett; and a twin brother, Alfred Harrell.
Services will be at 10 am Monday at Ellers Mortuary Webster Street Chapel. The Rev Harold Williams will officiate. Friends may call from 2 to 4 pm and from 6 to 8 pm Sunday at the funeral home. Burial will follow at Sunset Memory Gardens Cemetery.
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