Pearl E. McMillin Matthes 1886-1971

MATTHES, MCMILLIN, KINCAID, LEACH

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 12/30/2011 at 23:32:46

Thursday Rites for Mrs. Matthes
Pearl [McMillin] Matthes, 84, a former Estherville resident, died Sunday, Dec. 26, 1971, at Clinton, Mo.

She was born Feb. 20, 1887 [per gravestone, 1886], at Joliet, Ill., and was educated in the Joliet area.

She was married to Frank Matthes in 1903 in Illinois.

They moved to a farm in Kansas following their marriage and lived there for a short time. They then moved to a farm east of Estherville. In 1952 Mrs. Matthes moved to Clinton, Mo.

She is survived by three sons, Francis of Superior, and Leonard and Wayne of Clinton, Mo.; one daughter, Margaret Kincaid of Conroe, Tex.; 24 grandchildren, a number of great-grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Alta Leach of Joliet, Ill.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, one daughter, one grandson and a number of brothers and sisters.

Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Reese-Henry Funeral Chapel at Estherville with the Rev. Robert Karl Miller officiating.

Burial will be in East Side Cemetery. The body will lie in state at Reese-Henry Funeral Home until time of service.

Pallbearers will be Verle Matthiesen, Rex Anderson, Clyde Hall, Gus Knudson, Cecil Seeliger and Elvin Clabaugh. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, December 29, 1971)