Deere, Opal M. White – 1908-1943

BRAYTON, DEERE, VAN MAANEN, WHITE

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 11/16/2021 at 15:23:13

Mrs. Fred Deere Dies at Home in Newton
Mrs. Fred Deere, 34 years old, mother of three children, died at her home in Newton Monday afternoon, Feb. 15, 1943, after an illness of the past several months, during which she suffered a malignant disease.
Funeral services were held at the Morgan funeral home Thursday afternoon, Feb. 18, at two o’clock, with Rev. Charles Hollis, minister of the Newton Four Square Gospel church in charge. Burial was at the Vandalia cemetery, southwest of Prairie City.
Mrs. Deere had been a resident of Jasper county all her life, and had lived in Newton fourteen years.
The former Opal M. White, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rollie White of Prairie City, she was born Aug. 28, 1908, near Prairie City, where she grew to womanhood.
Dec. 8, 1926, she was united in marriage to Fred J. Deere of Prairie City, and the couple started housekeeping in Newton, where Mr. Deere was employed at the Maytag factory. The Deere home is at 700 E. 6th St. South.
Surviving relatives include her husband, three daughters: Colleen, 14 years old, a student at Newton Junior high school, Normalie, 12, and Joyce Marie, 7, both students at Lincoln grade school; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rollie White of Prairie City; sisters, Mrs. Wilbur Brayton of Newton and Mrs. Wm. Van Maanen of Mitchellville, and one brother, William R. White, of the U.S. Marine Corps stationed at San Diego, Calif.
She was preceded in death by one daughter, Janice Kay, who died at birth Aug. 28, 1941.
She was a member of the Four Square Gospel church and taught a Sunday school class there until last October when she was forced to resign because of ill health.
Pallbearers were Wayne Davis, Clifford Pennock, Ed Stravers, Archie Holman, Ralph McGriff and Marvin Patterson. Songs: “The Eastern Gate” and “A Flower for the Master’s Bouquet,” were sung by Mrs. Wayne Davis and Mrs. Forrest Wing, Miss Inez McNeese accompanist. Mrs. Ed Stravers had charge of the flowers.
The large crowd of friends and relatives who filled the funeral home to capacity and the many beautiful floral tributes spoke of the esteem in which Sister Deere was held in her community.
Source: The Prairie City News; March 4, 1943