Irma Evans Graves

GRAVES, EVANS, LEE, EDWARDS

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 6/30/2006 at 13:14:04

Winterset Madisonian
June 29, 1966

FUNERAL HELD FOR MRS. GRAVES

Died Monday at Memorial Hospital In Winterset

Mrs. Marion Graves, a long-time resident of Madison county, died Monday at the Madison County Memorial hospital in Winterset. She was 84 years of age.

Funeral services for Mrs. Graves were held this Wednesday afternoon, June 29th from the First Methodist church in Winterset.

Irma Gertrude Graves was born July 30, 1881, in Peoria county, Illinois, the daughter of David Griffith Evans and Cynthia Jane Graves. She was married to Marion R. Graves on Dec. 19, 1906 at Princeville, Ill.

For the past 56 years she had made her home in Madison county. For many years she and her husband lived on a farm in Lincoln township, moving to Winterset in 1948.

She was a member of the Methodist Church, Clover club, a charter member of the Women's Society of Christian Service, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and Royal Neighbors of America.

Surviving, in addition to her husband are five children; Mrs. Aileen Lee of Clarendon, Ill., Mrs. Zella Edwards of Winterset, Harold Graves of Toulon, Ill., Miss Helen Graves of Atlanta, Ga., and Robert Graves of Winterset; and one sister, Miss Leila Evans of Peoria, Ill.; and eight grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two sisters and one brother.

Officiating the funeral Wednesday was the Rev. Everett K. Burham and Rev. Lloyd Knouf. Burial was in the Winterset cemetery.