GRABER, Olive Gertrude (SCARFF), 1898-1959

GRABER, SCARFF, ALLENDER, STIPE, WATTS

Posted By: Betty Hootman (email)
Date: 2/22/2012 at 16:57:12

Mount Pleasant (IA) News
Monday, 12 October 1959

Mrs. Elmer Graber Taken By Death

Mrs. Elmer Graber, 61, died Sunday evening at 4:25 in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hasen Stipe, after an illness of several months.

Olive Gertrude Graber, the daughter of John A. and Rosabelle (Allender) Scarff, was born April 1, 1898, in Henry county. She resided in Mt. Pleasant and the surrounding Henry county vicinity all her life.

On Feb. 25, 1925, she was married to Elmer Graber, who survives her.

Also surviving is one daughter Mrs. Hasen (Rosalie) Stipe; one brother, Merle Scarff; and one sister, Mrs. Howard Watts, all of Mt. Pleasant.

Two infant children, her parents, two sisters, and one brother predeceased her.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Crane Funeral Home, with the Rev. Walter Stump, former pastor of the United Missionary church at Trenton, officiating and the Rev. Walter Gray of Wyman, assisting.

Interment will be in Forest Home Cemetery.

The family will receive friends at the Crane Funeral Home, Tuesday evening from 7:30 to 9.