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I'm hoping to contact the surviving relatives of Mrs. Isaac Terborgh (née Thompson), who was killed in a car accident in 1946. Her obit is below. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Mrs. Isaac Terborgh Killed In Accident Near Medina (Ohio?)

Memorial Service Held in First Church Monday for Well Known Former Resident. Memorial services were held in First Church Monday for Mrs. Isaac Terborgh, well known former Oberlin resident who died Saturday after being struck by an automobile as she was crossing a highway near Medina. Dr. W. F. Bohn officiated at the services here. Private burial services will be later. Mrs. Terborgh was born July 31, 1864, in Benzonia, Mich., the daughter of retired African missionaries. When she was 15 she moved with her family to Oberlin, where she attended Oberlin High School[, graduating in 1883,] and graduated from Oberlin College in 1888. She was a teacher in Oberlin for several years and later taught in Wymore, Neb. In 1894 she was married to Isaac Terborgh, a graduate of the Oberlin Theological Seminary. Mrs. Terborgh lived the life of a small town minister’s wife until 1905 when her physician recommended a drier climate to alleviate a chronic bronchial irritation, and the family moved to a farm in Alberta, Canada.
Their farm, 27 miles from a railroad was in the wilds of Canada. In the frontier community, Mrs. Terborgh taught the first school organized in the region. She conducted Sunday school classes and organized literary societies, choruses, and amateur theatricals.
In 1916 the family moved back to Oberlin where they continued to live until 1941, when they moved to St. Cloud, Fla. Mr. Terborgh died early in 1946.
Mrs. Terborgh was visiting a niece near Medina at the time of the accident which caused her death.
Surviving are a brother, John Winter Thompson of St. Charles, Ill., three daughters, Mrs. William C. Childs of Westfield, N. J., Mrs. John Murray of Blackburg, Va., and Mrs. Robert Rowe of Metuchen, N. J., and a son, George Terborgh, Arlington, Va.
Oberlin News-Tribune, Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, July 3, 1947, p. 1.

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Name: George W. Terborgh
Race: White
Birth Date: 6 May 1897
Birth Location: Portland, Michigan, USA

Enlistment Date: 28 Aug 1918
Enlistment County: Elgin
Enlistment State: Ohio
Enlistment Division: National Army

Comments: 159 Depot Brigade to 22 Sept 1918; Medical Department to Discharge Private, first class 1 March 1919. Honorable discharge 14 June 1919.

Washington Post - Tuesday, March 14, 1989
George W . Terborgh , 91, who was research director of the Machinery & Allied Products Institute in Washington for nearly 30 years before retiring in 1970, died of cardiac arrest March 11 at his home in Arlington. Between 1930 and joining the Institute in 1941, he had been a research economist with the Federal Reserve Board and a member of the staff of the Brookings Institution here. Dr. Terborgh was born in Michigan and reared in Alberta, Canada. He was an Army veteran of World War I. A 1922 graduate of Oberlin College, he received a master's degree in economics from the University of Chicago and a doctorate in economics from Brookings. Before returning here in 1930, he had taught at colleges and universities in the West and Midwest. He was the author of 12 books on economics. He was a member of the Cosmos Club, the American Economic Association, the National Association of Business Economists and the National Association for the Advancement of Science. His wife, Dorothy, died in 1979. Survivors include two sons, Eliot, of Atherton, Calif., and John, of Princeton, N.J.; a daughter, Anne Terborgh of Arlington; two sisters, Ruth Murray of Blacksburg, Va., and Rose Child of Northfield, Minn., and three grandchildren.