Emily (Fortney) Welch

WELCH, FORTNEY, TEMPLE, JOHNSON

Posted By: Angie Jameson (email)
Date: 6/15/2006 at 13:52:02

From the Adair County Free Press:

“Funeral Here for Mrs. Donald Welch. Funeral services for Mrs. Donald Welch, 28 were held Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock at the Bickford Funeral home in Greenfield. The Rev. Frank Jacobs, Methodist pastor, conducted the services. Music was furnished by Mrs. Anton Lambi and Mrs. PL Bickford, with Mrs. Arley Nelson as accompanist. The selections were “In the Garden and “Beautiful Isle”. Those serving a casket bearers were: Denzil Cunningham, GG Weaver, Rex Denton, Wallace Martin, Phillip Connelly and Orville Weber. Members of the Sinner Motor Co, where Mr. Welch is employed attended in a body. Interment was in the Greenfield Cemetery. Emily Etta Welch was born in Manhatten, Kansas September 24, 1921 and passed away Tuesday morning, April 25, 1950 at their home in Greenfield. She was one of five children born to Mrs. And Mrs. A L Fortney. Her death came as a shock to her family and many friends although she has been in poor health for some times, and having several severe attacks of illness. During the war, she did war work, serving in the employ of the Boeing Air Craft Company of Seattle Washington. And on September 26, 1942 she was united in marriage with Donald Eldon Welch, and after the war in fact September 1945 came with her husband to Greenfield, which has since been her home. One son Donald Eldon was born to Eldon and Emily and which was one of the brightest spots in her life as she was not only fond of but nearly worshiped him. And although she has suffered much illness, she was most patient and loving to her family and friends. For a good many years she has been a member of the Baptist church, transferring her membership to the Greenfield Methodist church when she came to Greenfield. Besides her husband and small son, she is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Donald I. Temple, and a brother Lowell M. Fortney of Seattle; Mrs. Kathryn Johnson of Muscatine, Iowa; and Billy of Manhattan, Kansas, also other relatives and a host of friends, who are deeply grieved by her untimely passing. Some of those attending the services fro mother vicinities were Mrs. And Mrs. Howard Wood and children of Afton; Mrs. George Lents and Betty Timmons of Osceola; Mr. and Mrs. Wm Nelson and Mrs. M. Davis of Stuart, Ia; Mrs. Wm. Decker and Miss Hilma Osborne of Creston; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Welch and family of Winterset.”