Zella Coventry

COVENTRY, OLDAKER

Posted By: Bob McCleary (email)
Date: 9/18/2018 at 12:08:02

Wapello Republican, January 3, 1935, page 1

Word was received here yesterday of the death of Mrs. W. R. Coventry, who passed away at the Springfield, Ill., hospital, December 31, following an operation ten days prior for the removal of a tumor.

Zella Oldaker was born at Milo, Iowa, August 17, 1865 and was married to the Rev. W. R. Coventry twenty-five years ago. Their union was blessed with two children, Leonard and Gladys, both students at the University of Illinois, Urbana. Mr. Coventry was pastor of the First Presbyterian church in Wapello for seven years and he and his wife visited here last fall. At that time Mrs. Coventry appeared in the best of health hence the news of her illness and death came as a great shock to their legion of friends here. For the past eight years they have resided at Virden, Ill.

Funeral services were held from the First Presbyterian church at Virden, January 1 at 9 a.m. conducted the Rev. Carl Attig of Edwardsville, Ill., and interment made in the I.O.O.F cemetery at Milo, Iowa.