Wilbur, Mabell (1876-1963)

WILBUR, RISTRIM, BOWMAN, GROVES

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 5/3/2017 at 18:31:49

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Friday, August 23, 1963

Funeral services for Miss Mabell Wilbur, 87, longtime resident of the Stanhope community, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Methodist church in Stanhope with the Rev. Mardon Williams officiating. Burial will be in the Lawn Hill cemetery near Stanhope.

The body will lie in state at the Foster funeral home until 9:30 a.m. Saturday when the body will be taken to the church.

Miss Wilbur, a longtime resident of the Stanhope community, died at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Hamilton county hospital, following an illness of the past six months.

Mabell Frances Wilbur, daughter of Harvey and Louisa Wilbur, was born June 25, 1876, on a farm near Stanhope and was reared and educated in the Stanhope community.

She later attended Iowa State Teachers college at Cedar Falls, graduating there in 1908. She taught school in the rural schools of Hamilton county for several terms, then taught in the public schools at Avoca, Kellogg and Stanhope. She had been retired for a number of years.

She is survived by one niece, Mrs. Robert (Gayle Ristrim) Bowman of Denver, Colo., and two grand-nieces, Marcia and Lisa Bowman.

She was preceded in death by her parents and four sisters, Mrs. Bessie Ristrim, Mrs. Cora Groves, Miss Hattie Wilbur and Miss Louella Wilbur.

Miss Wilbur was a member of the Methodist church in Stanhope and had held a life membership in the Women's Society of Christian Science.