Pearson, Ruth E. 1904-1991

PEARSON, HANSON, ZERLEY, ZARLEY, BAIR, GEARHART

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 7/10/2007 at 20:41:38

Ruth E. Pearson

Funeral services for Ruth E. Bair Pearson, 87, formerly of Midtown Apartments, were held today, Feb. 4, at Wallace-Pence Funeral Home.

The Rev. Ray Barnett pastor of the First Christian Church, conducted services. Burial was in Newton Union Cemetery.

She died Friday morning of heart failure at the Bernard Zerley home in rural Monroe where she was making her home.

Survivors are two cousins, Ethel (Mrs. Hollis) Hanson of Mingo and Lavon (Mrs. Bernard) Zerley of Monroe.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Ollie, March 7, 1983, and a brother, Virgil Bair, April 21, 1983.

Mrs. Pearson, owner-operator of a nursing home in Albia for several years, was a member of the First Christian Church.

The daughter of Leon and Dela Gearhart Bair she was born Jan. 28, 1904 in Newton and attended Jasper County rural schools.

She was married to a Ollie Marion Pearson June 5, 1939 in the Des Moines.

Mrs. Pearson, who had lived in Jasper County, most of her life, lived in Albia and in Kellogg where she resided until 1987 when she moved to Midtown Apartments. Following a short period she moved to the Zarley home. ~ The Newton (IA) Daily News, February 1991

Transcriber note: Note two spelling of Zarley and Zerley. Obit typed as written.