Mrs. Emma Wood

WOOD, EMERSON

Posted By: Cindy Bray Lovell (email)
Date: 2/6/2009 at 20:26:30

MRS. M. WOOD,
65, SUCCUMBS

Funeral Rites to Be
Held Tuesday at
Church at Burchinal

Mrs. Emma Wood, 65, wife of Mervin Wood, Burchinal, died at a Rochester, Minn., hospital at 1:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon following an illness of several years. She had been at the hospital one week.
Mrs. Wood was born Sept, 19, 1872, at Volney, Iowa. Surviving Mrs. Wood are her husband, three brothers, William Emerson, Lake Park, Iowa, H. W, Emerson, Winnebago, Minn. and Gordon Emerson, Palo Alto, Cal. She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers.
Mrs. Wood was a member of the Methodist church of Burchinal. She had resided there for the past 40 years.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at l:30 o'clock at the Methodist church at Burchinal, with the Rev. Mr. Wardell of Swaledale in charge. Burial will be at Elmwood cemetery in Mason City.
The body will lie in state at the Patterson funeral home until 12:30 o'clock Tuesday when it will be taken to the church at Burchinal.

From the Globe-Gazette (Mason City, Iowa)

July 31, 1939

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