Enos, Esther Verle (Stevenson) 1903 – 2001

ENOS, STEVENSON, WALTERS, HEATER, MCFARLANE

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:22

Source: Riceville Recorder; Apr. 5, 2001 Page 13
from Elma library collection assembled by Marian (Marr) McGee
Transcribed by Joy Moore

Services held for Verle Enos, 97
Esther Verle Enos, daughter of Matthew Gray and Edith (Walters) Stevenson, was born August 21, 1903 at Maple Leaf, Iowa. Verle passed away Monday, March 27, 2001 at the Riceville Community Rest Home at the age of 97.
Funeral services were held 2:00 p.m. Saturday, March 31, 2001 at the Saratoga Presbyterian Church, with burial in the Saratoga Cemetery. Pastor Tim Sir presided with the Conway Funeral Home in Riceville assisting with the arrangements.
Verle, as she was known to everyone, attended rural school and high school at Elma, Iowa. She did some substitute teaching and helped at home.
Verle and Henry Enos were married October 12, 1926 at the Little Brown Church, Nashua, Iowa and moved to the farm north of Saratoga, Iowa. They lived on this farm for several years and then moved across the road where Verle lived until she entered the Howard County Residential Care Facility in January of 1994. She entered the Riceville Community Rest Home in September of 1999.
Verle was a very active lady, she was a 4-H leader, did sewing for the soldiers in World War II, was active in the church, loved to visit, eat out and go shopping, she also liked to travel with her friend Nellie Miles and they attended many Elderhostels. She was a very good seamstress and sewed for many people.
She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, four brothers, Lynn, Ben, Robert and Ross Stevenson; and two sisters, Olive Heater and Leone McFarlane.
She is survived by one brother, Kenneth Stevenson of Lime Springs, and nieces and nephews.

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