Mabel Idella Simpson, GW #167 

Mabel was born on 20 December 1901 in Derry, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania to Norman L. and Sarah “Sadie” F. (Thompson) Morrow.  By the time of the 1910 census the family had moved to nearby Latrobe where her father worked as a station keeper for the railroad.  By 1920 the family had moved to Pittsburgh where her father worked as an engineer on the railroad.  It is likely that Mabel learned of the Gospel Workers through their work in Pittsburgh.  Before 1930 Mabel had married someone with the last name of Simpson.  She appears in the census in Cleveland with the other Gospel Workers.  Apparently the marriage did not go well or she would not have been living with the Gospel Workers in 1930.  She left the Gospel Workers before 1940 when she is listed in the census in Holly Hill, Florida (near Daytona), living with former Gospel Worker Ruth R. Jones.  Mabel did not have any occupation listed, she is listed as married, and she reports she had eight years of school.  By 1950 Mabel and Ruth had moved across the state to St. Petersburg where Mabel is working as a clerk in the bookshop of a Bible Institute.  A google search shows that in 1947 the St. Petersburg Bible Institute was started under the leadership of Dr. Charles M. Leaming.  The school is now known as Florida Beacon College & Seminary in Jacksonville, Florida.  It is a conservative, Full Gospel non-denominational school.  In the 1950 census Mabel’s marital status is listed as “separated,” and she had two years of college.  Mabel died on 22 February 1992 and is buried in Bay Pines National Cemetery, according to a post on Find-a-Grave, but there is no photo of a tombstone.  Mabel’s mother’s died in 1943; her obituary in the “Latrobe Bulletin” lists daughter Mabel with her maiden name and living in Daytona, Florida.