Grandgeorge, Beulah Viola Karr (1909-2002)

GRANDGEORGE, KARR, HOUSTON, ALBERTS, BOTTORFF, GRUMMER, AHLERS, FARLEY, MOBERLY, POTTER

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 11/3/2022 at 15:05:00

Daily Freeman Journal
Webster City, Iowa
Wednesday, December 4, 2002

Beulah Grandgeorge, 93, Webster City, died Dec. 2, 2002 at Crestview Manor in Webster City. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Foster Funeral Home, Webster City, with Pastor Ray Artrip officiating. Burial will be in the Graceland Cemetery at Webster City. Visitation will be one hour before the service at the funeral home.

Beulah Viola Karr, daughter of Charles and Margaret Houston Karr, was born Oct. 2, 1909 in Webster City. She attended Webster City schools, graduating in 1926. She then attended Webster City Junior College and Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls. On July 9, 1933 she married Ralph W. Grandgeorge at Webster City. The couple resided in Webster City. She attended Drake University, then taught in rural schools, Fremont #2, Fremont #4 and Pleasant Hill. She taught at Sunset Heights Elementary School for 14 years, retiring in 1971. Mr. Grandgeorge died on May 7, 1990. She had resided at Crestview Manor for the past two years.

Mrs. Grandgeorge is survived by daughter, Joyce Alberts of Cedar Falls; daughter and son-in-law, Beth and Don Bottorff, Webster City; grandchildren, Debra and Jeffrey Grummer, Ames, David and Lynn Alberts of Mountain Lakes, NJ., Steven Alberts of Sandwich, NH; Susan and Paul Ahlers of Fort Dodge; Douglas and Margaret Bottorff, Iowa City, Shelly and Patrick Farley of Webster City; great-grandchildren, Megan, Matthew and Molly Grummer; Michael, Emily and Patrick Alberts, Benjamin and Kate Ahlers, and a sister Eunice Moberly, Pacific, Mo.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her brothers, Paul, Floyd and Lloyd Karr; sister, Anna Potter; and son-in-law Lyle Alberts.