Bertha May Cady

CADY, MAGNUSSON, ANDERSON, DELONG, HILL, HATFIELD, FRECH

Posted By: Marlene Skalberg (email)
Date: 8/9/2013 at 13:44:34

Mr. Delmar Cady and Mrs. Glen Wymore received word Thursday morning of the death of their mother and grandmother, Mrs. Bertha Cady, near Nodaway.
Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the Roland Funeral Home in Corning with burial at Villisca. Sincere sympathy is extended to the bereaved.
Adams County Free Press, Thursday, April 7, 1960, page 14
Bertha May Cady, 80, of near Brooks, died Thursday morning, March 31, 1960, at the Rosary Hospital in Corinng, Iowa.
She was born September 18, 1879 on a farm her Geneseo, Illinois. She was united in marriage on November 29, 1898 at Clarinda, Iowa to Stephen Warner Cady, who preceded her in death in 1937. She has lived on the family farm, 5 miles southwest of Brooks, since 1906. She joined the Methodist Church when a young girl and was a life long member.
Surviving her are four daughters, Rosa (Mrs. Norman Magnusson) of St. Joseph, Missouri, Sadia Elvina (Mrs. Theodore Anderson) Bettendorf, Iowa; Virginia (Mrs. Darwan DeLong) of Lamont, Iowa), Ethel Hill, (Mrs. Stanley ) of Bettendorf, Iowa; two sons, Glen G. of Oak Park, Illinois, and Walter T. of Brooks, Iowa; one stepson, Delman F. of Guss, Iowa and a half-brother LeRoy of Minneapolis, Minnesota. 25 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren and other relatives and friends.
Preceding her in death was a daughter Beulah (Mrs. Ira Hatfield) and a sister, Cora (Mrs. C. Frech).
Her life and example of hard work and loving sacrifice for her family and those around her will live as a benediction in the lived of all who knew her.
Funeral services were held at Roland Funeral Home in Coring, Saturday, April 2, 1960 at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. Brown Garlock, pastor of the First Methodist Church at Coring, officiating. Burial was in the Villisca Cemetery. Pall bearers were Ed Bergman, Allen Bergman, James Walter, Glen Wymore, Russell Cady, and Clyde Spring. Music was by Mrs. Esther Roland, Mr. John Riegel, and Mrs. John Champ.
Adams County Free Press, April 7, 1960, page 1