Etta May Hall Spracklin West 1878-1972

WEST, SPRACKLIN, HALL, GAGE, VANDERHOFF, BUSY, MALONEY

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 3/16/2012 at 00:53:45

Etta May West Rites Monday
Mrs. Robert J. West (Etta May [Hall]), 93, died yesterday, Sept. 7, 1972, at a nursing home in Crosby, Minn. She was a former resident of Estherville.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday in Fuhrman Funeral Home, Estherville, and interment will be made in East Side Cemetery.

She was born Sept. 22, 1878, at Coon Rapids. She was married to Mr. Spracklin who later died. After his death, she was married to Robert J. West and they farmed east of Estherville. He died in 1957. She lived in Estherville for some time, then moved to Minnesota a few years ago.

Survivors include five sons, Ivan Spracklin of Reading, Pa., Robert West of Faribault, Minn., Everett West of California and George West of Adel; four daughter, Mrs. Richard (Birdie) Gage of Owatonna, Minn., Mrs. Blanche Vanderhoff of Roseburg, Ore., Mrs. Fern Busy of Adel and Mrs. Rose Maloney of Lewisville, Minn.; 13 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchildren; and one sister living in California.

Friends may call at Fuhrman Funeral Home, Estherville, after noon on Sunday until time of services. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, September 8, 1972)