Alta WEBSTER 1876-1962

BELL, DIMMITT, HEMPY, HOUGH, HOWSE, KING, NEWBY, POWELL, TAYLOR, WILLEY

Posted By: L.K. Newby (email)
Date: 10/28/2007 at 19:16:30

China Aide dies at 85

Tues Jun 19 — Word has been received of the death Alta Almyra (Newby) WEBSTER, on Sunday, June 17 in Sacramento California.

A native of Lee County, Iowa, Mrs. Webster was the second daughter of Mathew and Martha (Powell) NEWBY and member of the Clay Grove M.E. Church. She graduated from Iowa Wesleyan Academy in 1895 and from Iowa Wesleyan College in 1899, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. From 1900 to 1902 she taught at the Mount Hamill Preparatory School. [See Link below]

In 1903-1904 Mrs. Webster trained and became a Missionary for the M.E. Women’s Foreign Missions. By 1905, she sailed to China to begin her work at Baldwin School in Nanchang China. She married Rev. James B. Webster in Chinkiang, China, Sept 25, 1912.

Mrs. Webster served as a missionary in China for 20 years and returned to this country in 1925 when her late husband, James B. Webster, joined the faculty of what was then the College of the Pacific in Stockton. He died in 1929 and for several years after that Mrs. Webster remained at the school as house mother in a men’s dormitory. Later she managed a women’s social club in Stockton until her retirement in 1947.

She died in a local hospital, about four months after moving to Sacramento to live with her son, Dr. Charles M. Webster, a physician at 6611 Swenson Way. The funeral will begin at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Harry A. Nauman & Son Funeral Home, followed by a private cremation service.

Besides her son, she leaves a daughter, Esther (Webster) HOWSE of Stockton; a sister Ada (Newby) WILLEY of Burlington, Iowa; a brother Edwin NEWBY of Riverton, Wyoming; six grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Besides her husband she is preceded in death by two sisters: Annie (Newby) BELL and Mary (Newby) TAYLOR; one brother: Dr. Joseph M. NEWBY and three half-sisters: Ida Belle (Hempy) HOUGH, Olive (Hempy) DIMMITT and Ella Mae (Hempy) KING.

[This was transcribed for Lee county Iowa genealogy purposes, the news clipping was found among other family scrapbook items gathered by Mrs. J.M. Newby, 1882-1964. Compiled from Burlington Hawkeye and Sacramento Bee obituaries]

Mt.Hamill Class circa 1902
 

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