Marsh, Ida Ophelia Moot (1881-1944)

MARSH, MOOT, HARDY, KNAUPP, GOULD, MCBETH

Posted By: Kendra McCormick (email)
Date: 4/21/2006 at 17:26:22

Mrs. Marsh, Age 62, Dies

Funeral Services to be Held Here Sunday Afternoon.

Mrs. C. A. Marsh, 62, died Suddenly Wednesday afternoon at her home in Webster City. The cause of death was a heart attack. Mrs. Marsh had been in ill health for years.

Funeral Services will be at the Foster funeral home on sunday afternoon begining at 2:30 p.m.
The Rev. J. J. Share will officiate. Burial will take place at Oak Grove Cemetery, south of Lehigh.

Mrs. Marsh was born Ida Ophelia Moot(e) on June 26, 1881 in Manson, Calhoun County, Iowa to Pharo(ah) Moote and Isabella (Belle) McBeth. Ida was reared in Manson and went to school there and graduated from the local high school.

Around 1903 Ida moved to Fort Dodge and met Charles Albert Marsh the man she would marry on December 21, 1904. Ida moved to Lehigh with Charles and raised seven children and farmed for nearly 35 years.

From 1932-1939, Ida and family moved to Dayton, Iowa. In 1939, they moved to Webster City. Charles A. Marsh is employed with an implement company headed by Mary Ostlund.

Ida was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers: Johnnie and Guy Moote. (Ida was 17 when her mother died and had to help raise her young siblings.) Ida was about 21 when she lost her father to smallpox.

Ida is survived by her husband and seven children: James T. Marsh of Anthony, Kansas; Mrs. Belva Marsh Hardy of Hammond, Indiana; Miss Thelma
Marsh of Portland, Ore; Mrs Paul (Opal) Knaupp, also of Portland; Mrs. Ramona Marsh Gould of Gladstone, Ore; Charles (Chuck) Marsh of Alva, Oklahoma; and John M. Marsh who is stationed at Camp LeJune, N.C. with the U.S. Marine corps.

She is also survived by 7 grandchildren. Other survivors include:one brother, Truman Moote of Tulsa, Oklahoma;two sisters, Mrs. Wallace Shearer and Mrs. Belle Moote Boyer both of Hillsdale, Oklahoma and many relatives and friends.

Ida was a member of the Methodist faith and was a bapitized Christian. She belonged to the Eastern Stars in Lehigh.

Ida was a kind, caring and generous woman who will be missed by family and friends.

Source: The Daily Freeman-Journal, Webster City, Iowa June 22, 1944.

Submitted by Great-Granddaughter, Kendra McCormick