Elizabeth Wherry 1893-1956

WHERRY, CRIPLIVER

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 7/26/2019 at 08:36:02

20 December 1956 - The Tipton Conservative

Death of Mrs. Elizabeth C. Wherry Dec. 12 ended the writing of one of the finest interpreters of midwestern, particularly eastern Iowa life.

Mrs. Wherry, 63, died at University hospital in Iowa City. She suffered a heart attack Dec. 1 and underwent surgery at Iowa City. Mrs. Wherry was believed recovering when she relapsed.

In her final column of "Country Air", which appears in the Dec. 15 issue of Wallaces' Farmer, she wrote of the true meaning of Christmas, telling of a night during her young womanhood following a church program in Tipton.

Mrs. Wherry wrote the column for more than 20 years. She was also a contributor to Successful Farming magazine and was the author of two children's garden books for Better Homes and Garden.

For many years she wrote a column for the farm page of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, "Soul Conservation." She also wrote the script for a program, "Country Neighbors" over WSUI, Iowa City.

Mrs. Wherry was born Jan. 29, 1893, near Tipton as Elizabeth Cripliver, daughter of Jacob and Ella Cripliver. She was graduated from Tipton high school and attended Iowa State Teachers college at Cedar Falls.

Don L. Wherry and she were married March 31, 1914, at Tipton. They farmed three miles southwest of Wyoming from 1920 to 1943. After retiring from the farm, Mr. Wherry taught vocational agriculture and mathematics in Monmouth and Mechanicsville high school.

Mrs. Wherry was active in Farm Bureau and 4-H girls work in the 1930s and early 1940s. She was county field woman for the old Triple A from 1938 to 1941. She was a member of the first Iowa dairy industry commission.

After the death of Mr. Wherry, Mrs. Wherry went to Iowa City where she was house mother for Gamma Phi Beta sorority for several years.

She moved to Mount Vernon where for two years she was house mother for the girls in Peiffer hall at Cornell College.

Three years ago she returned to Anamosa.

Funeral services were held in Anamosa Saturday. Interment was at Wyoming.

She is survived by two sons, John, 37, Des Moines, public relations director for the Iowa Tuberculosis and Health association and Richard, 31, materials engineer in Kansas City, Mo. One brother, Frank Cripliver, lives in Wichita Falls, Texas.