Alice Edna Curry Maves 1879-1966

MAVES, CURRY, FRETTY, TATLEY

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 5/7/2015 at 19:35:52

Mrs. Maves Dies at 87
Armstrong – Funeral services for Mrs. Charles (Alice) Maves, 87, of Armstrong, were held today, at 1 p.m. family service at the Slaba-Reese Funeral Home followed by a 2 p.m. church service at Free Methodist Church, Rev. Willard Madden officiating.

Burial was in the Armstrong Grove cemetery.

Mrs. Maves died Saturday [December 24, 1966] at 9:45 a.m. at the Turner Nursing Home after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. She had been a resident of the nursing home for 13 months.

Alice Edna Curry was born Sept. 12, 1879, at Calhoun, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Curry.

She was married April 8, 1903, to Charles Maves at her parents’ farm home near Calhoun. Mr. and Mrs. Maves operated a general store at Calhoun for a time and later moved to a farm near West Salem, Ill.

They moved in 1914 to a farm near Ashton, Ill., and in 1917 moved to Ringsted where they farmed until they moved to a farm near Estherville. In 1933 they moved to a farm near Armstrong.

After Mr. Maves’ death in 1944 Mrs. Maves lived for a short time on the farm and then moved to a home in Armstrong.

She was a member of the Free Methodist Church and was church officer and active in the women’s organization.

She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Austine (Berniece) Fretty; two sons, Vivian Wallace Maves of Evansville, Ind., and W. Curry Maves of Wilmore, Ky.; three grandchildren; one great-grandchild; one brother, Clarence Curry of Olney, Ill.; and one sister, Mrs. Laura Tatley of Mount Carmel, Ill.

She was preceded in death by her husband, an infant daughter, her parents, one brother and three sisters. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, December 27, 1966)