WHARTON, Florence

WHARTON, JENKINS, CAMPBELL, GILMORE ISBELL, WILKIE

Posted By: Annette Blake
Date: 9/4/2007 at 12:46:56

1924-1994 Cherokee Archives

Florence A. Wharton,69, Aurelia, died Jan. 8, 1994 at the Marian Health Center in Sioux City after a brief illness.

Funeral services were held at 10:30a.m. at the Immaculate Conception Church in Cherokee with Father James Smith and Father Gene Sitzmann officiating. Burial was in Pleasant Hill Cemetery at Aurelia. Wharton- Redig Funeral Home in Aurelia was in charge of the arrangements.

Florence Ann Campbell was born on Dec. 30, 1924, in Cherokee, the daughter of John and Mary Jenkins Campbell. She attended Immaculate Conception Catholic School in Cherokee graduating in 1943. She worked at the Central Trust and Savings Bank in Cherokee until her marriage to George R. Wharton,Jr. of Aurelia. They were united in marriage on May 13, 1949 in Sioux Rapids and made their home in Aurelia. Florence worked at the Farmers National Bank in Aurelia for several years, until the birth of their daughter Julie. Florence and George operated the Wharton Funeral Home until their retirement in 1991. Florence was an active member of the Aurelia community and the Immaculate Conception Church of Cherokee. She enjoyed many hobbies such as sewing,quilting, and was a member of several card clubs.

To mourn her death is her husband George of Aurelia, daughter Julie Wharton of Sioux Falls. SD. Two sisters, Geraldine Isbell of Evergreen, Colo. and Patricia and husband George Wilkie of Larrabee, two brothers, Paul and wife Virginia Campbell of Waterloo and Tom and Tomaline Campbell of Ione, CA, brother-in-law, Dale Gilmore of Ogden, Utah, stepmother, Mary K. Campbell of Cherokee and other relatives and friends.

Preceding Florence in death were her parents, two sisters, Mary Gertrude Campbell and Ellen Gilmore.