Mary Ann Guest Bravender 1891-1973

BRAVENDER, GUEST, CLIFFORD, CHRISTENSEN, VAUGHN, ANDERSON, SEVOLD, ELLIS

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 7/4/2014 at 16:32:09

Ex-Armstrong Resident’s Funeral Set Wednesday
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday for Mrs. Mary Bravender, 81, of Spencer at the Lightle-Hayes Funeral Home in Spencer. Burial will be in the Armstrong Grove Cemetery.

Mrs. Bravender died Sunday afternoon, Feb. 25, 1973, at her home in Spencer, after having been in failing health for the past few years.

Mary Ann Guest was born March 12, 1891, to the late John and Catherine Guest at Leeds, Iowa. She came with her parents as a child to Armstrong where her father managed the lumber yard.

She married the late Roy Bravender June 27, 1912, at Armstrong**. They lived in Swea City for several years where they owned a men’s clothing store. After her husband’s death, Mrs. Bravender moved to Spencer.

Mrs. Bravender is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Clark Clifford, and one son, Roy, both of Spencer; three grandchildren and five sisters, Mrs. Cassie Christensen of Ringsted, Mrs. Ethel Vaughn of Elmore, Minn., Mrs. Boyd Anderson of Sheldon, Mrs. Oscar Sevold of Philadelphia and Mrs. Emerson Ellis of Madison, Wis. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, February 27, 1973)

**Ray Bravender and Miss Maynie Guest, of Armstrong, were married by Rev. H.C. Hurd at the Christian parsonage Thursday afternoon. (Estherville Democrat, Estherville, IA, July 3, 1912)

Armstrong
Last Thursday afternoon Roy A. Bravender accompanied by his sister, Miss Mildred, and Misses Florence, Ethel and Mayme Guest took an auto to Estherville for the purpose of taking the latter unto him as his life partner.

Mr. Bravender and Miss Guest were quietly married at Estherville at one of the parsonages in the presence of only a few relatives and friends.

They took the evening train to Spirit Lake where they remained for a few days, later on coming to Armstrong to live.

Both parties are from Armstrong’s best families, having long ago lived here and brought up in the Sunday school of the Methodist church and educated in the public schools. Words cannot speak of them too highly and we wish them the best the old world gives. (Vindicator and Republican, Estherville, IA, July 10, 1912