Bertha "Ozark Sally" Bickford (d. 1990)

BICKFORD, HENDRIX, YOUNG, KRAMER

Posted By: Janet A. Brandt (email)
Date: 9/15/2013 at 11:01:26

Bertha "Ozark Sally" Hendrix Bickford

Widow of Dillon Bickford

Bertha "Ozark Sally" Bickford, 76, of Onslow, died Monday, Nov. 12, 1990 at St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids.

Funeral services were held Thursday, Nov. 15 at 10:30 a.m. at Hayden Funeral Home in Wyoming, with the Rev. Frederick Kramer officiating. Burial was in the Clay Cemetery.

Visitation was Wednesday, Nov. 14, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Bickford was born March 31, 1914 in Washburn, Mo., the daughter of Roy and Mona Young Hendrix. She married Dillon Bickford on Feb. 18, 1929 in Depew, Okla. They lived in Oklahoma and Texas until 1933 when they moved to a farm in the Monmouth area. In 1943, they moved to a farm in the Onslow area where they remained. Mr. Bickford died in December 1974. Mrs. Bickford remained on the farm until her death.

She was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church of Onslow.

Survivors include one daughter, Bercitis (Mrs. Vernon) Miller of Onslow; three sons, Edwin and J. E. both of Onslow, and Donald of Wyoming; seven grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren; two step great-grandchildren; one sister, Theresa (Mrs. Claude) Barker, Maquoketa; and one brother, Curt Hendrix of Van Buren, Ark.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, three brothers and two sisters.