Hazel Mae Bebout (1967)

BEBOUT, NICHOLS, STEGALL, ZORNES, GILMORE, DAVIS, MCLEOD, SIMPSON

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Date: 5/27/2020 at 06:20:46

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Hazel Mae Bebout was born in What Cheer, Iowa, April 12, 1899 to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nichols and departed this life on March 14, 1967 at the age of 67 years, 11 months, and two days.

She was united in marriage to Clarence Bebout at Knoxville, Iowa, on January 19th, 1917. To this union eight children were born, three of whom preceded her in death: Lester, Lynford, and Lenora, as did six brothers and one sister.

Mr. and Mrs. Bebout quietly observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary this year.

She leaves to mourn her passing her husband, Clarence, and son Francis Bebout of Woodward; daughters, Violet Stegall of Marshalltown, Ruth Zornes of Tucson, Arizona, Rachel Gilmore of rural Linden, Iowa, and Sue Davis of Marshalltown, Iowa; also sixteen grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Two sisters, Emma McLeod of Chariton, Iowa and Florence Simpson of Los Angeles, Calif., survive her as do a host relatives and a great number of friends.

Mrs. Bebout was a member of the Dexter Methodist church and was also a continuous member of the American Legion Auxiliary of Dexter.

For over twenty years Mrs. Bebout was employed at the Chapler-Osborn Clinic in Dexter, where her devotion to duty was apparent to all whom she served.

Final rites were held at the Methodist Church in Dexter on Friday, March 17, with the Rev John Latta officiating. Robert Lawson sang two numbers and Mrs. Keith Chapler played the organ. Interment was in the Dexter cemetery.