What happened to Elizabeth Alexander?

[rowanali]

Elizabeth was born 12th Jan 1876 near Tomintoul in Scotland to Thomas Gordon Alexander (ploughman) and Ann/Annie (nee McHardy).  She had 3 siblings, but by the age of 7 her mother had died  and the siblings were split up.  Elizabeth and brother John went to live with paternal grandparents in Moray. She never married (or at least not until 1940!) In 1914 she immigrates to USA and in 1920 she is living with her sister Christina (and Christina's husband William McGregor) in Cook, Chicago where she appears on the census returns until at least 1940.  She is a registered nurse.  Her sister in USA (Christina) dies in 1938 and her 2 UK siblings will die in 1950s in Scotland.  On 2nd June 1950 she travels first class to Scotland via Liverpool - presumably to visit ailing siblings.  I can't find any trace of her after this.  Did she travel back to US?  I think she was naturalised as she is listed as American on the passenger list.  Can't find passport application either though.  And no death for her so far.  Would love to find out where she did her nurse training but not sure those records are kept anywhere (UK?/USA?). There is an impressive monument to the family in Scotland which she must have had inscribed for her parents and her 3 siblings.
Any help with this gratefully received - forgive if I'm missing something obvious as I am not very used to American records.

[CaroleW]

She was 74 when she travelled from the US to Scotland.  Depending on when her last sibling died - and assuming she remained in Scotland to nurse them she would have been "knocking on" a bit to return to the US

EDIT

Incoming passenger list shows she travelled from Montreal & gives an address in Glasgow

[rowanali]

I know, 10 years earlier she was 64 and was still working 44 hour week in public health.  She had been in US since 1914, so don't know that she would want to bide in Scotland at such a late stage in her life.  She may not have been nursing them, maybe just a visit before she got too old to travel. 

[CaroleW]

See my edit above.  Did her siblings die in Glasgow?

[CaroleW]

SP shows 2 possible deaths for her name & age in Lanarkshire - 1954 & 1961

[rowanali]

One sister died in US (Christina), her other sister (Susan McHardy) and brother (John McHardy Alexander) died in Scotland (1954 and 1952). The address on the incoming to UK is 5 Chisholm Street and was their family 'base' in Glasgow - so many of them lived and died there - McHardy's - siblings, cousins over a long period of time.

[rowanali]

Thanks for checking SP.  I have looked and checked the most likely ones and haven't found her there.  She isn't either of the 2 in Lanarkshire

[CaroleW]

Wonder why she ws travelling from Montreal rather than the US

[shellyesq]

This 1964 death record was attached to a family tree on Family Search & seems to match her parents. The birth date is off, but she seemed to be younger in at least one census record, so the informant may not have known.  https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2MX-MTYT  (I suspect the transcription of this record was bad, since it references Forest Park, Illinois and Forest Home, Ithaca, Tompkins, New York, which are nowhere near each other.  It looks like it's available in a Family Search Center or Family Search affiliate library, if you wanted to see the image.)

Wonder why she ws travelling from Montreal rather than the US

It may have been cheaper coming from Chicago.