GREEN, Nellie Belle 1876 - 1926

GREEN, MCCORMICK

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Date: 12/3/2023 at 23:03:12

"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Wednesday, June 2, 1926
Front Page, Column 3

NELLIE B. GREEN DIED IN LA JOLLA

Fairfield Woman Died Monday and Body Will be Sent Here For Burial

Miss Nellie B. GREEN passed away yesterday morning at 9:50 oclock in LaJolla, Calif., where she has been the past 7 months in hopes of betterment of her health. The word was received this morning by Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Shirk. She is the last of the family. The body will be brought back here for burial but definite arrangements have not been made. Miss GREEN was born in this city and has spent the greater part of her life here. She was about 50 years old.

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"The Weekly--Ledger Journal"
Thursday, June 3, 1926
Front Page, Column 3

NELLIE B. GREEN DIED IN LA JOLLA

Fairfield Woman Died Monday and Body Will be Sent Here For Burial

Miss Nellie B. GREEN passed away yesterday morning at 9:50 oclock in LaJolla, Calif., where she has been the past 7 months in hopes of betterment of her health. The word was received this morning by Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Shirk. She is the last of the family. The body will be brought back here for burial but definite arrangements have not been made. Miss GREEN was born in this city and has spent the greater part of her life here. She was about 50 years old.

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"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Saturday, June 5, 1926
Page Five, Column 1

Just Among Ourselves

... --No word has as yet been received as to the arrival of the body of Miss Nellie GREEN, who passed away Tuesday in LaJolla, Calif. ...

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"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Tuesday, June 8, 1926
Front Page, Column 7

RITES TOMORROW FOR MISS GREEN

Cremated Remains Brought From LaJolla By Miss McCORMICK

Funeral services for Miss Nellie B. GREEN who died in LaJolla, Calif., June 1, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 oclock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Shirk, 408 North Main street. They will be conducted by Dr. Thomas Osborn of Mt. Pleasant.

Miss GREEN's remains were cremated and are being brought back by Miss Nina McCORMICK who will arrive tomorrow morning. They will be interred in Evergreen cemetery by the side of her parents, Morrison and Sarah McCORMICK GREEN.

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"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Thursday, June 10, 1926
Front Page, Column 6

LAST RITES FOR MISS GREEN HELD

Services at 4:30 from W. D. Shirk Home; Interment At Evergreen

Funeral services for Miss Nellie GREEN were held yesterday afternoon at 4:30 oclock at the W. D. Shirk home, 408 North Main street in charge of her former pastor, Dr. Thomas Osborn of Mt. Pleasant assisted by Dr. H. B. Scoles. A quartette composed of Mrs. L. W. Van Nostrand, Mrs. Frank Pierson, J. H. Stuckey and Paul Coleson, sang three songs of her choice, "How Firm a Foundation," "Softly Now the Light of Day," and "Beautiful Isle." The following men served as honorary pall bearers, J. Wilbur Dole, Job E. Johnson, Clinton Gray, Orville Coen, Col. Wilson G. Heaton, Ralph M. Munro, M. H. Cuddy, S. E. DuVall, O. F. Fryer and W. D. Shirk.

Interment was made in the Evergreen cemetery.

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"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Thursday, June 10, 1926
Page Two, Column 1

PROBATE OF WILL

State of Iowa, Jefferson County, ss.

To All Whom It May Concern:

Notice is hereby given that an instrument, purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Nellie B. GREEN, deceased, is now on file in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Jefferson county, and that Monday, June 21, A. D., 1926, at 9 oclock a.m., it being the 31st day of the April term, 1926 of said court, has been set for proof and final hearing of same. Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this 10th day of June, 1926.

C. W. Ireland.
Clerk of the District Court.

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"The Weekly--Ledger Journal"
Fairfield, Iowa
Thursday, June 10, 1926
Front Page, Column 7

RITES TOMORROW FOR MISS GREEN

Cremated Remains Brought From LaJolla By Miss McCORMICK

Funeral services for Miss Nellie B. GREEN who died in LaJolla, Calif., June 1, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 oclock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Shirk, 408 North Main street. They will be conducted by Dr. Thomas Osborn of Mt. Pleasant.

Miss GREEN's remains were cremated and are being brought back by Miss Nina McCORMICK who will arrive tomorrow morning. They will be interred in Evergreen cemetery by the side of her parents, Morrison and Sarah McCORMICK GREEN.

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"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Friday, June 11, 1926
Page Two, Columns 4 and 5

OBITUARY

Miss Nellie B. GREEN

Miss Nellie Belle GREEN only child of Morrison and Sarah (McCORMICK) GREEN was born on a farm east of Fairfield, Feb. 8, 1876, died in LaJolla, Calif., June 1, 1926 her parents having preceded her in death fourteen years. She lived most of her life in her cottage home at 411 North Main street, Fairfield, was graduated from the Fairfield High school in the class of 1894 and was graduated from Parsons college in the class of 1898. She was an active member of the Elzevir Literary society. She had a diploma from the Jefferson County Normal institute. Later she took a 4-year course in the University of Chicago in home economics, at the completion of which she received a diploma and at which time the degree of bachelor of education with all its rights privileges and honors were confered on her. She also completed a course in the correspondence-study department of the University of Chicago in English language literature and rhetoric.

Last year she attended a meeting in Washington, D. C., of the National Educational association of which she has been a member for years. She taught a number of terms of school in the country and city and her very highest ambition was along educational lines and for the betterment of mankind. She was very modest and unassuming and that she was a lady of the very highest type in every respect all must gladly admit, those knowing her best and most intimately loving her most and and (sic) the better appreciating of her many and ennobling traits of character. Her kindness and sympathy were clearly shown in her unselfish care and nursing of her aged Uncle Norvill in his lingering last sickness and her "Aunt Harriet," whom she so kindly cared for.

Nellie had been seriously afflicted for a long time and bore her suffering with such Christian fortitude and so uncomplainingly that those around her did not fully realize her condition. She belonged to the M. E. church and had been a christian from childhood. It may interest her friends to quote from letters we have just received from her close friends, Mrs. Elizabeth (Heaton) Whitney and Miss Abigail Heaton, who were near her in California frequently with her. They write thus:

"Nellie has made friends here who were wonderful to her." "Nellie was really a wonderful girl and her mind seemed to grow keener with her illness and she had her mind to the last." "Nellie was one of my very best friends as we had known each other ever since we were in the second primary went through school and college together and were for many years in Mrs. Zimmerman's S. S. class. It is going to be hard for me to adjust myself to an existence in which she does not fill a pretty big part."

I will add ever since she was in California she has had her dear and exceedingly kind friend. Miss Clara Grice with or near her, so that in the closing hour she was (as we all know who knew Clara) kindly cared for And I will further write in losing Nellie it would seem we had lost a child of our own and in these closing days of her life, we have endeavored to carry out her every wish and request since she left us.

Her remains were laid to rest in the Evergreen cemetery with those of her parents.

Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Shirk!

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"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Saturday, June 12, 1926
Page Six, Column 4

COURT CASES

... Last Will and Testament of Nellie B. GREEN, deceased; Will set for hearing on June 21, 1926 at nine oclock a.m. ...

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Note: Buried in Lot 2nd.180.