BEAMAN, Etta F. (1869-1958)

BEAMAN, KERR, PUFFER, CUMMINGS

Posted By: Hancock Co Genealogical Society (email)
Date: 5/2/2015 at 14:58:21

Former Britt Resident Dies in Algona

BRITT - Funeral services for Etta F. Beaman, 89, former resident of the Corwith LuVerne community, who died Tuesday at an Algona nursing home following a long illness, will be Friday at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church, Corwith. A prayer service will precede it at the Boughton Funeral Home, Britt. The Revs. C. M. Peters and Perry Carlson will officiate.

Mrs. Beaman was born June 29, 1869, in Indiana. On Sept. 11, 1888, she was married to Charles Beaman at Martinsville, Ind. They farmed in Indiana and Illinois and came to the Corwith community in 1896. Her husband died in 1939.

She is survived by three sons, William, Britt; Bruce, Kankakee, Ill., and Emery, Corpus Christi, Tex.; two daughters, Mrs. Donald (Hester) Kerr, Corpus Christi, and Mrs. Rex (Jewell) Puffer, Britt; 31 grandchildren, 52 great grandchildren; and a brother, Ezra Cummings, Cloverdale, Ind. Four children preceded her in death.

Burial will be in Corwith Cemetery.

source: Mason City Globe Gazette, 10 Dec 1958, page 15, col 5-7