Lela H. Frederick

FREDERICK, ELLSTON, GRIMES

Posted By: Ida Morse (email)
Date: 3/23/2006 at 22:06:58

Earlham Library Obituaries, August 1994
Earlham, Iowa

Lela H. Frederick

EARLHAM-A funeral for Lela H. Frederick, 105, of Earlham was held Aug. 8, 1994 at the Church of Christ here, with burial following at DeSoto Cemetery at DeSoto. Mrs. Frederick died on Aug. 5, 1994 at Earlham Health Care Center, where she had lived for three years.

The daughter of Samuel and Rebecca Ellston, she was born at DeSoto on Jan. 16, 1889. She married John Frederick on Feb. 24, 1914. She taught Sunday School at the Earlham Church of Christ for many years.

She was preceded in death by her parents; by a brother; by a sister; by her husband, John, in 1960; and by a son, Wilbur, in 1993.

Survivors include a daughter, Esther Grimes of Earlham, and many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.