Carrie Belle (Leas) Scott

LEAS, DUNN, SCOTT, DAVIS, TRIPP, HUFFMAN

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 11/29/2010 at 16:36:52

SOURCE: Waukon Republican/Standard March 1979
Contributor: Connie L. Ellis (Related/Dunn Researcher)

CARRIE BELLE SCOTT DIES IN MINNESOTA

Carrie Belle Scott, 88, died Thursday, March 15, 1979, in the Luverne, MN hospital. She was born to Alburtis and Catherine (Dunn) Leas on April 7, 1890 in Paint Creek Township, Allamakee County, Iowa. In 1910 she went to Ash Creek, Minnesota area and married Rhoda Scott April 20, 1911. They farmed in the Ash Creek and Hardwick, MN areas until moving to Luverne. Her husband died June 1, 1959 and she went to live at the Mary Jane Brown nursing home last November.

She is survived by two daughters, Thelma Davis and Maroe Tripp of Worthington, MN, eight grandchildren, three great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Lee (Gladys) Huffman of Lansing, Iowa and a brother H.Leslie Leas of Monona, Iowa. Three sisters and three brothers preceded her in death. Casketbearers were eight of her grandchildren and burial was in Luverne. Minnesota.