"Miss Julia Etta Shorter, 70, of 210 Madison St., died Tuesday, Nov. 4, 1941, at her home, after a long illness.
She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. C.P. Moore and Mrs. Mary Alice Chase, both of Ithaca; two nieces, Miss Anna Johnson of Ithaca, and Mrs. Edna Pound of Syracuse, and one nephew, William R. Robinson of Ithaca."

"Deaths, Funerals: Miss Julia Etta Shorter," Ithaca Journal, November 5, 1941, 7.