Jessie Mable Wilder Igou 1881-1950

IGOU, WILDER, SMITH, TUPPER

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 7/3/2010 at 10:25:48

Mrs. Igou, Longtime City Resident, Dies
Mrs. Ed [Jessie Mable Wilder Igou] Igou, 68, long time resident of Estherville, died last night at 9 o’clock in Holy Family hospital of cancer.

She had been suffering from the disease for a number of years, and had been failing rapidly since undergoing an operation about a year ago.

She had a relapse about Christmas time, then in May returned to Estherville from Ames where she had been living since four years ago. She had been hospitalized since Sept. 7.

She was born Sept. 22, 1881, and came to Estherville more than 35 years ago. Her husband, Ed Igou, formerly was a carpenter and for 21 years worked for Mahlum and Anderson furniture store in Estherville, He died about 10 years ago as a result of a heart attack. The Igous were members of the Presbyterian church.

Survivors include two children, a son Raymond Igou at Anthony, N.M., and a daughter, Edith, Mrs. A. Philbert Smith of Caldwell, N.J. Two children died in infancy.

Mrs. Igou went to Ames from Estherville about four years ago to live with her sister and her mother, but had returned here in May, living at the Mrs. Alice Tupper residence.

Services will be held tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. in Sternborg funeral chapel with the Rev. Frielle E. Conaway officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, September 16, 1950)