BRERETON, Lula Mae BLAKELEY 1894 - 1984

BRERETON, BLAKELY, BLAKELEY, TURNHAM, RAYMOND, MCDONAD, MCDONALD, MYERS

Posted By: Richard K. Thompson (email)
Date: 6/26/2011 at 17:44:24

Fairfield Ledger
Wednesday December 26, 1984

Lula BRERETON dies at 89

LIBERTYVILLE--Lula M. BRERETON, 89, Libertyville, died Dec. 25, at 4:15 p.m. at the Sigourney Care Center.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Raymond Funeral Home with the Rev. George Koch officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Sigourney Care Center.

Lula M. BRERETON was born March 29, 1895 (sic. 1894), in Jefferson County. She was the daughter of Oscar and Clara TURNHAM BLAKELY (sic. BLAKELEY). She was reared and educated in Jefferson County.

She married Samuel R. BRERETON Dec. 22, 1911, in Fairfield. He died Nov. 23, 1950. Mrs. BRERETON was a member of the Methodist Church.

Survivors included five sons: Clyde and Lloyd, both or Fairfield; William, Libertyville; Paul, Mesa, Ariz.; and Lester, Moline, Ill.; and two daughters, Marjorie RAYMOND, Fairfield; and Mildred McDONAD (sic. McDONALD ??), Marshalltown.

Also surviving are 19 grandchildren, 32 great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandchild; and a brother, Carl, Yuma, Ariz.

In addition to her husband Mrs. BRERETON was preceded in death by two grandsons and nine brothers.

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* Transcribed for genealogy purposes. I am not related to the person(s) mentioned.

Note:
Lula is buried in Evergreen cemetery, Fairfield, Iowa. 4th.044.

This contributor has been in contact with Virgil MYERS, whose wife is a BLAKELEY descendant. The issue was trying to resolve the birth order of Lula and her brother John. After consulting various census records and other materials, it appears that Lula was born first, on March 29, 1894, although her obituary had March 29, 1895 (and misspelled her maiden name as well). Her headstone is engraved with 1894 as her birth year. Conversely, her brother John "Jack" Edward BLAKELEY Sr. (who is buried in Evergreen cemetery in 4th.117) was born September 7, 1895 (his obituary uses that date), but his headstone is engraved with the DOB year of 1894.

This birth order is most consistent with the 1900 and 1910 census reports for the family of Oscar and Clara BLAKELEY of Jefferson county, Iowa.