Vera Hardisty Mitchell (1989)

BLACK, FAIRHOLM, HARDISTY, HULIN, KILE, MACK, MITCHELL, NIELSEN

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 3/12/2006 at 17:22:29

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, April 26, 1989

Vera Hardisty Mitchell, Winterset

Services for Vera Lettia (Hardisty) Mitchell of Winterset were held Wed. April 26, at the United Methodist Church in Winterset with the Rev. Clarence Lautt officiating. Burial was at the Winterset Cemetery.

Born in Adams County near Carbon, Iowa, Jan. 23, 1907, she was the daughter of the late George Elmer and Margaret May (Mack) Hardisty. She was married to Clem D. Mitchell, May 2, 1931, over the air at Henry Field's Radio Station in Shenandoah, Iowa by Rev. James Pearson. Four children were born to this union: Lorraine Irene Kile, Maurice Dean Mitchell, Marilyn Mae Fairholm and William Clem Mitchell.

Mrs. Mitchell graduated from the Fontanelle High School with a Normal Training Certificate and attended Drake University. She taught school in Adams, Adair, Madison and Dallas Counties, a total of 27 years. Vera and Clem farmed in Adair and Madison Counties. They moved into Winterset in 1959. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women, National Retired Teachers Association and the Democrat Women's Assoc.

Survivors include her husband; sons, Maurice and wife Phyllis Mitchell of West Des Moines, Bill and wife Sharon Mitchell of Winterset; daughters, Lorraine and husband Wayne Kile, and Marilyn and husband Marvin Fairholm of Winterset; eleven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Also four sisters; Florence Nielsen of Winterset, Ida Black of Silver City, Darlene Hulin and Evelyn Hardisty of Council Bluffs.

She was preceded in death by her father, mother, two sisters and four brothers.

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