Caroline (Carrie) Mayer Witt (1972)

WITT, MAYER, BAKER, BEATTY, KETCHUM

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 6/1/2006 at 13:33:12

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
October 11, 1972

MRS ORA (CARRIE) WITT Of Macksburg Dies

Mrs. Ora Witt of Macksburg died Friday, Oct. 6, 1972, at Madison Manor in Winterset, where she had spent the last seven years. She was 84 years of age.

Mrs. Witt was a native of South Dakota, where she was born at Wakonda on Dec. 6, 1887. She was married to Ora Witt on Dec. 12, 1905. They lived near Wakonda until moving to Iowa in 1910.

Most of her life was spent near Macksburg, and later on a farm in Webster township. She was a long-time member of the Methodist W.S.C.S. at Macksburg.

She leaves her husband, Ora Witt of Macksburg; two daughters, Mrs. Myrtilla Baker of Macksburg and Mrs. Helena Beatty of Butler, Pa.; a son Robert Witt of Macksburg; four grandchildren; five great grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Ella Ketchum of Vermillion, S. Dak.

(Note: Burial was made at Moon Cemetery)