Wert, Ila B. (Baldwin) 1895-1995
BALDWIN, HAY, WERT, LONGNECKER, PAYNE, NORTON
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Ila B. Wert, 100, of Boone died of a heart ailment Thursday [Nov. 23, 1995] at Eastern Star Masonic Home, where she had lived 3 ½ years. Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Farrar United Methodist Church, of which she was a member. Burial will be at Farrar Cemetery.
Mrs. Wert was born in Ira and lived in the Maxwell area most of her life before moving to the care center. She was retired from the Farrar Mercantile Store and was a member of her church’s women’s society, Maxwell Order of the Easter Star and Maxwell Federated Women’s Club.
Among survivors are two daughters, Kathryn Longnecker of Maxwell and Done May Payne of Ogden; a sister Jeanetta Norton of Ankeny; a brother, Claude Baldwin of Mitchellville; four grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends from 2 to 8 p.m. today at Cooper Funeral Home in Maxwell. Memorial contributions may be made to her church or Eastern Star Masonic Home in Boone. ~ Unknown newspaper obituary. ~ Newton Daily News, November 1995.
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The following added 19 Feb 2014Ila B. Wert
Ila B. Wert, 100, of Maxwell, Iowa, died of heart failure on Thursday, November 23, 1995, at the Eastern Start Masonic Home in Boone, Iowa.
Funeral services were held Sunday, November 26, at the Farrar United Methodist church, with the Rev. Penny Hansel of the Loring United Methodist Church officiating. Burial took place at the Farrar Cemetery.
Surviving are two daughter, Done May Payne of Ogden and Kathryn Longnecker of Maxwell Mitchellville; four grandsons; and nine great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband in 1971, and a sister.
She was born on June 27, 1895, to E. H. and Ida B. (Hay) Baldwin. A graduate of Newton High School, she attended the State Teacher’s College in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
On May 16, 1917, she married Clarence H. Wert in Des Moines.
She lived in the Maxwell area most of her life until moving to the Eastern Star Home in Boone three and one-half years ago.
She ran the Farrar Mercantile Store for 51 years.
Mrs. Wert was a member of the Farrar United Methodist Church, the United Methodist Women’s Society, the Maxwell Chapter of the Eastern Star, and the Maxwell Federated Women’s Club.
Memorial contributions to the Farrar United Methodist church or the Eastern Star Home in Boone will be accepted. Newspaper unknown, possibly The Des Moines Register or The Newton (IA) Daily News.
Newton High School Graduates, 1914
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