Grace Robbins Wight

WIGHT, ROBBINS, TAYLOR, MILLER, WATTS, WHITE

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 6/19/2006 at 22:18:30

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
- - 1968

MRS. GRACE WIGHT Dies In Idaho

Mrs. Grace Wight, a native of Scott township in this county died recently at St. Marie's, Idaho, where she had gone to make her home with a son. She was 86 years of age.

Mrs. Wight was a member of a pioneer family in this community. She was the former Grace Robbins, daughter of James M. and Thankful Jane Robbins, and was born here March 24, 1882. She attended the Buffalo school and Winterset High school. As a young woman she was a teacher in the rural schools of Madison County.

During her residence here she was a member of the First Baptist church of Winterset.

She was married to Bertram Wight of Winterset in 1902. They lived in Montana until his death in 1924. In recent years she had made her home in Cotter, Ark., until moving to Idaho recently.

She is survived by nine children, Lysle of Mardin, Mont., Joseph of Flagstaff, Ariz., Paul of Spokane, Wash., Richard of St. Marie's, Ida., Mrs. Doris Taylor of Livingston, Mont., Mrs. Marian Miller of Raidersburg, Mont., Robbin of Richland, Wash., Dale of Deaver, Wyo., and Mrs. Maxine Watts of Cleveland, Ohio. She also leaves 32 grandchildren; 32 great grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Paul A. White of Davenport.

Funeral services were held at St. Marie's and burial made at Rockvale, Mont.

(Rockvale Cemetery, Rockvale, Mt.)