Brock, Bessie (Dales) 1891-1980

BROCK, DALES, WORTHING

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 4/14/2005 at 16:42:19

Bessie Brock dies on Sunday; rites Tuesday
Mrs. Ira (Bessie) Brock, 88, of Nelson Manor Nursing Home, a lifelong resident of Jasper County and resident of Newton since 1950, died Sunday morning at the nursing home.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Wallace Funeral Home.

Dr. Richard Bentzinger pastor of the First United Methodist Church, will conduct services. Burial will be in Sugar Grove Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. today.

Survivors are three sons, William H. Brock of Mountain Home, Ark., John Worthing Brock of Rt. 4, Newton, and Ragan G. Brock of Rt. 1, Monroe, and two daughters, Mr. E. G. (Marjorie) Yost of Newton and Mrs. Bonnie Seney of Des Moines.

Also surviving are 12 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband in 1937, a brother and five sisters.

Mrs. Brock was a member of the First United Methodist Church and had worked as a volunteer for the Skiff Memorial Hospital Auxiliary.

Formerly she had taught rural schools in Jasper County.

The daughter of William and Jennie Worthing Dales, she was born Nov. 18 1891 at Colfax, was a 1910 graduate of Colfax Community High School and attended Newton Normal College.

She was married Dec. 14, 1912 in Des Moines. ~ The Newton Daily News, Newton, IA, October 6, 1980