Bale, Margaret K. (Jess) 1895-1987

BALE, JESS, VANDEHAAR, THOMAS, SNOOK, MOORE, FLAMME

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 9/28/2004 at 20:32:16

Margaret K. Bale

Colfax - Margaret K. Bale, 91, of Colfax died Wednesday, July 22, at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines.

Her funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, at the Walters-Coburn Funeral Home in Colfax. The Rev. Eldon Nolte will officiate and burial will be at the Colfax Cemetery.

The family visitation will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to the Colfax Senior Citizen Center.

Mrs. Bale is survived by one son, Earl of Colfax; two daughters, Bonnie (Mrs. Oren) Vandehaar of Mitchellville and Juanita (Mrs. David) Thomas of Healdsburg, Calif.; 11 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Henrietta (Mrs. Bert) Snook of Newton.

She was preceded in death by her husband, John T. Bale; her parents; one son, John Bale Jr.; one daughter, Nadine Moore; four brothers, Carl Jess, John Jess, Ferd Jess and Harry Jess and a sister, Olga Jess.

The daughter of Peter and Frederica Flamme Jess, she was born Oct. 15, 1895 in Davenport.

She married to John T. Bale on Jan. 19, 1916 in Newton. ~ The Newton Daily News, Newton Iowa, July 24, 1987, page 2.