Lamb, Rosa Belle Wicker – 1886-1935

ANDERSON, LAMB, OGBURN, SMITH, WICKER

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 7/13/2021 at 21:35:35

In the vicinity of Vandalia 48 years, 11 months and 20 days ago there was born a baby girl to Mr. and Mrs. Joshua and Eliza Wicker and this little girl grew to womanhood in the same community. They named her Rosa Bell and when she came to the age of twenty years she was united in marriage to Mr. Jess Lamb on July 17, 1906, and in all they were the parents of six children, but two of them died in infancy while Garrison and the Mrs. Grace Anderson still survive, living in Des Moines, and Wynona and Roscoe still are near the town of Runnells.
Mrs. Lamb has been in poor health for four and one-half months but perplexing the home doctors she was taken to Iowa City where she there underwent an operation yet to no avail and Mrs. Lamb died at the age of nearly 49 years, too young and needful to leave the children and the two grand-children and the husband.
She was a sister to Mrs. Maxwell Smith of Vandalia and to Roy Wicker near Mitchellville and a step-mother to Mrs. Rolla Ogburn of Prairie City and a relative to many and a friend of all who knew her.
The services were conducted at Vandalia, Iowa, in the presence of a large circle of friends conducted by Earl Warren of Ivy assisted in reading and prayer by Evangelist A. R. Kepple of Kansas City and singing was by a quartette by Kepple, Mrs. Erskin, Miss Daugherty and Warren with burial at Vandalia cemetery.
Source: Altoona Herald; July 4, 1935, page 4