White, Gertrude Rice 1895-1995

WHITE, RICE, SLOCUM, ABRAHAMS, WETHERALL, VAN LOON, HALLBERG, BLOODSWORTH, BLOMMERS

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 12/1/2007 at 16:16:11

Gertrude Rice White, 99, of Newton died of complications of a stroke Saturday at Skiff Medical Center. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Van Dyk-Duven Funeral Home in Pella, with burial at Bellefountaine Cemetery near Tracy.

Mrs. White was born in Fifield and had lived in Newton 14 years. She was a homemaker and nurses' aide.

Survivors include four sons, Davey Rice and Charles rice, both of Reasnor, William Jr. Rice of Columbia and Theodore Rice of Des Moines; two daughters, Sarah Slocum of Monroe and Viola Abrahams of London, Ark.; a sister, Carrie Wetherall Kasper of Elyra, Ohio; 14 grand children; 30 great-grandchildren; and 15 great-great-grandchildren.

Friends may call at the funeral home this afternoon and Monday until the service begins. The family will greet friends from 6:30 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home. ~ The Newton (IA) Daily News, January 1995
===============================================
Gertrude White

Funeral services for Gertrude Bloodsworth White, 99, of Newton Health Care Center, a resident of Newton since 1980, were held today, Jan. 16, at Van Dyk-Duven Funeral Home in Pella.

The Rev. Andy Kamphuis conducted services.

Burial was in Bellefountaine Cemetery in Tracy.

She died Saturday morning at Skiff Medical Center.

Survivors are four sons and daughters-in-law, Ted and Evelyn Rice of Des Moines, Davie Rice of Reasnor, Charles and Dixie Rice of Reasnor and William and Velma Rice of Columbia; two daughters and sons-in-law, Sarah and Ray Slocum of Monroe and Viola and Vernon Abrahams of Londan, Ark.; 14 grandchildren; 30 great-grandchildren; 15 great-great-grandchildren; and a sister, Carrie Kesper Wetherall of Elyria, Ohio.

She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, three sisters, Julia Van Loon, Pauline Rice and Mary Hallbert, and three brothers, James, Tom and John W. Bloodsworth.

Mrs. White had served as a nurse's aide while residing in California.

The daughter of John W. and Kate Blommers Bloodsworth, she was born July 8, 1895 near Fifield and was raised in Marion County.

She was married to William W. rice in 1917 in Bussey and later to David White.

Mrs. White had resided in Bussey, on a farm near Harvey, Attica, Keosauqua, Leon and the Vinegar Hill neighborhood near Monroe prior to moving in Monroe in 1951.

Later she moved to California, Kansas City, Mo., Eldorado Springs, Mo., Oskaloosa for six years and in 1980 moved to Newton to reside in the Mc Cann Village. ~ The Newton (IA) Daily News, January 1995