Rachel Ann Ives
IVES, GOLDSBERRY, WATKINS, CREW, GEE, HATCH, MERRILL
Posted By: Carrie Robertson (email)
Date: 3/19/2017 at 10:11:26
The Marion Sentinel Thursday July 24, 1941
Mrs. Rachel Ives Died Early Tuesday After Long Illness
Mrs. Rachel Ann Ives died at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Dr. Arthur E. Crew home, 1160 Ninth avenue, where she had resided in comfort with her daughter, Mrs. Crew, for a number of years.
She was born in Marion December 28, 1854, the daughter of Alvin M. and Nancy Jane Watkins Goldsberry, and carried in her memory the life story of Marion almost from its beginning. She was married here to Lawson L. Ives March 11, 1875, and though this union connected two prominent early-day families with wide connections through the community. Her husband died in 1928. Two daughters were born to this union, Mrs. Bertha Alice Crew alone surviving; Mrs. Nellie Lucena Hatch dying in Cedar Rapids in 1923. One of Mrs. Ives' five brothers, W.N. Goldsberry, formerly of Central City, but now of Waterloo, also survives. There are six grandchildren: Dr. Phil Crew, of Marion; Mrs. Ruth Gee of Albany, Ga.; Rachel Hatch, of Marion; Mrs. Catherine Hatch Merrill, of San Antonio, Texas; Ezra Keith Hatch of Cedar Rapids, and Jean Hatch of Iowa City. The three great-grandchildren are Joanne and Dianne Crew, of Marion, and Albert H. Merrill of San Antonio.
Mrs. Ives was long a member of the Marion Methodist church, of Marion chapter, No. 183, O.E.S., and until the time of her last illness was an active member of the Reading circle, of which she was a charter member. She was a woman of great charm of personality, keen of wit and with a rare sense of humor, and retained all these faculties until the very last.
Funeral services were conducted this morning at 10:30 o'clock from the Yocom chapel, with Rev. C.V.R. DeJong, pastor of the Presbyterian church in charge. As a preliminary to this service, Mrs. Caroline Hanscom read an original poem as a tribute to the passing of a very dear friend. Burial was made in one of the most beautiful sites of Oak Shade cemetery.
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