TURNEY, Bella SPIELMAN 1871-1943

TURNEY, SPIELMAN, WHITING, NANES, HIRSHBERGER

Posted By: Richard K Thompson (email)
Date: 8/16/2009 at 11:37:59

Fairfield Daily Ledger
December 4, 1943

TURNEY LAST RITES SUNDAY

Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. for Mrs. Dillon TURNEY at the home, 405 E. Burlington St. where she had come as a bride 49 years ago, and where she continued to reside following the death of Mr. TURNEY in 1931. Friends of the family are invited to attend the services.

Dr. H.C. WHITING, brother-in-law of Mrs. Turney, and Dr. E.A. Piper, pastor of the First Lutheran church, will be in charge. As requested, there will be no music. Mrs. Turney's favorite hymn, "There Is No Death" by Johnstone and Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" will be read.

The pallbearers will be Leonard Frescoln, Glen Sherman, John Barwise, John Montgomery, Edmund Hunt and Leo Thoma. Honorary pallbearers are James Montgomery, Arthur Jordan, Noble Calhoun, Jack Ireland, Walter Hughes, Joe Ball, and Arthur and James Wallbank of Mr. Pleasant.

A son, Lieut. Dillon Spielman TURNEY, U.S.N.R., stationed in Washington, D.C. will be prevented from attending, due to illness. He had, however, been granted two leaves within the last two months to be with his mother in the Iowa Methodist hospital in Des Moines where she had been a patient the past eight weeks. Lieut. TURNEY had returned to Washington only Monday preceding his mother's death the following Wednesday.

Mrs. TURNEY's daughter, Mrs. Kathryn NANES (Mrs. William) of Des Moines arrived in Fairfield Thursday evening accompanied by two of her close friends, Mrs. Robert Bartley and Mrs. Harry Wilson also of Des Moines. Word has been received that relatives in the west will be prevented from attending. Mr. NANES will also be unable to attend due to pressing duties relative to his government work in the east.

Mrs. TURNEY was brought to the Murray Funeral Home Wednesday night. The casket will remain closed at the services, it was stated, in compliance with Mrs. TURNEY's wishes.

Among the out of town people who will attend are Dr. Laura NANES, Pella, sister of William NANES, and the following will come tomorrow from Des Moines, Harry Wilson, Robert Bartely and Mrs. Burton Bristow.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.

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Transcriber note: Bella SPIELMAN TURNEY was the daughter of John A SPIELMAN and Christina HIRSHBERGER SPIELMAN. She was born in 1871 and died in Fairfield, Iowa on December 1, 1943.