Huddlestun, Bessie May McConnell (1887-1944)

HUDDLESTUN, HUDDLESTON, MCCONNELL, BRADSHAW, WEIR, NELSON, CROSBY

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 5/11/2017 at 06:50:44

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Thursday, October 19, 1944

FUNERAL RITES ON SATURDAY

Mrs. Shad Huddleston, 57, Died Wednesday at Hospital

Mrs. Shad Huddleston, 57, died Wednesday evening at the hospital where she had been a patient for about a week. She had been seriously ill the past three months.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Foster Funeral home, the Rev. J.A. Farnham officiating. Burial in Graceland cemetery.

Bessie May McConnell, daughter of William and Allie McConnell, was born May 17, 1887 on a farm near Kamrar. When a small child she moved with her parents to a farm six miles south of Webster City, and in this community she attended the rural schools and grew to young womanhood.

Jan. 23, 1908 she was married to Shad Huddleston and they went to farming on the Huddleston farm and on other places in the county. In 1912 they moved to the present home southeast of this city.

Preceding Mrs. Huddleston in death were her mother, who died in 1942, one son, Frank, who died at the age of seven, and one brother. She is survived by her husband, two daughters and two sons, Mrs. Don (Eleanor) Bradshaw of this city; Mrs. Noble (Cora) Weir of Clarion; Robert of Storm Lake and Richard, who is in the army air corps at Pecos, Texas; also the following grandchildren: Donna Bradshaw of this city; Mary and Lanita Weir of Clarion; Andrea and Robert Jr. Huddleston of Storm Lake.

Also surviving are four brothers and three sisters: Mrs. Mable Nelson, Frank McConnell; Mrs. W.H. Crosby, Miss Maude McConnell, all of this city, Harold McConnell of Milwaukee, Wis.; Ralph McConnell, this city; and Earl, with the U.S. army, now located in Holland. There are also several nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Huddleston was baptized in the Methodist faith and was a member of the church here. She had been active in church work as long as her health permitted.

Of a cheerful and likeable disposition, Mrs. Huddleston had many friends who knew her as a dependable neighbor and helper. A good wife and kindly mother who had devoted her main interests to the carrying on of her home, she will be greatly missed in the family circle.

[obituary reads Huddleston but headstone reads Huddlestun]