Wilma Alberta Bickford

BICKFORD, STEPHENS, ISETT, MOLLE, MATTHEWS, GRIFFITH, SKELLY, MADDUX

Posted By: Judy Kelley (volunteer) (email)
Date: 4/29/2009 at 13:25:14

Muscatine Journal, June 4, 2002

MEDIAPOLIS, Iowa - Wilma Alberta Bickford, 85, formerly of Wapello, died Sunday, June 2, 2002, at Prairie Ridge Care and Rehab, Mediapolis.

Services are 2 p.m. Thursday at the Dudgeon-McCulley Funeral Home, Wapello. The Rev. Kenneth Frans will officiate. Pallbearers are Jeff Molle, Luke Molle, Mason Matthews, Richard Isett, Dennis Molle, Gavin Hjerleid, Ed Jurgill and Larry Bickford. Honorary pallbearers are Bill Ives, John Cutkomp, Raymond McCulley, Delno Stineman and Fred Peterson.

Burial will be at Wapello Cemetery, Wapello.

Visitation is 10 a.m.-8 p.m. today, with family present 6-8 p.m., at the funeral home.

A memorial has been established for the Wapello Volunteer Fire Department, the Wapello Rescue Unit and the Wapello community Ambulance Service.

Mrs. Bickford was born March 16, 1917, in Wapello, the daughter of Sidney T. and Adah J. Stephens Isett.

She married Lyle H. Bickford Sept 28, 1937, in St. Louis, Mo.

She was a homemaker and worked at Hedges Drug Store and Stella's Smart Shop, both in Wapello.

She loved birthdays or simply reasons to celebrate. Her family came first.

She loved to cheer on her grandsons, the home team or participants at sporting events. She enjoyed dancing, growing roses, bike riding, swimming, gardening, cooking, baking, boating and camping.

She was a former member of a sewing club and card club; life member of the DAV Auxilliary, Burlington; former member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxillary, Wapello; and member of the Merrymakers Club, Wapello.

Survivors include her husband; two daughters, JoEllen Molle and Kay Matthews and husband Richard, all of Wapello; three grandsons, Jeff Molle and wife Tish, Luke Molle and Mason Matthews, all of Wapello; a nephew, Richard Isett of Salem, Ill; and two nieces, Barb Griffith of Yarmouth and Grace Skelley of Bluffton, S.C.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a granddaughter, Monica Kay Matthews; a sister, Harriet Maddux; and three brothers, Joe Isett, Gene Isett, and Ewing Isett.