Burgess,Laura Isabel (Cameron) 1894-1951

BURGESS, CAMERON, FERGUSON

Posted By: Jill McCarville (email)
Date: 3/11/2014 at 16:30:54

MRS. J.H. BURGESS DIED EARLY MONDAY AFTER LONG ILLNESS

Funeral Services Today in Burgess Home With Rev. E.F. Byers in Charge of Services

Mrs. J.H. Burgess,57, well-known Cresco woman, died in the Burgess home Monday morning at 6:00 after a lingering illness.

Funeral services are being held this afternoon (Wednesday) at 2:00 in the Burgess home. The Rev. E. Forrest Byers, pastor of the First Congregational church, will conduct the services, and burial will be in Oak Lawn cemetery. The Bradley Funeral home is in charge of the funeral arrangements.

Mrs. Burgess, the former Laura Isabel Cameron, daughter of John and Martha Cameron, was born in Winneshiek county March 6, 1894. At the age of nine, following the death of her father, Laura came with her mother to Cresco, where she had since lived.

She was graduated from the Cresco high school and attended for one year the University of Iowa, Iowa City, where she was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She then returned to Cresco to be with her mother.

She was married to Joseph H. Burgess April 22, 1916, in Cresco.

Mr. and Mrs. Burgess established a home in Cresco, and they became the parents of two children, Jane, now Mrs. Gerald Ferguson of Arcadia, California, and John of Cresco.

It was pointed out by the Rev. Mr. Byers that "the Burgess home has always been a center of hospitality for young and old, a home of cheerful and gracious living which Mrs. Burgess believed essential to spiritual and material well being."

Mrs. Burgess was an active member of the Cresco Congregational church, the P.E.O. and Entre Nous to which she contributed materially so long as health permitted.

Mrs. Burgess is survived by her husband, her two children, and three grandchildren.

Howard County Times June 13, 1951
Transcribed by Jill McCarville from the files of Janice Sowers

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