Belva Gardner Warren

WARREN, GARDNER, BISHOP, HARPER

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 7/8/2006 at 10:11:12

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
October 3, 1984

BELVA G. WARREN, Winterset

Services for Belva G. Warren, 89, Winterset, who died Sept. 26, 1984, at the Bethesda Care Center, were held Saturday, Sept. 29 at the Collins Funeral Home with the Rev. Jerry Zanker officiating. Burial was at Barney Cemetery.

Born April 6, 1895 in Madison County, she was the daughter of Samuel and Viola D. Bishop Gardner. She married Lester E. Warren on June 3, 1919 in Des Moines and spent most of her life as a county school teacher and housekeeper.

Mrs. Warren was a member of the Barney Church of Christ and later was a member of the First Christian Church in Winterset. She also was a member of the Barney Ladies Aid and the Sixty Plus Club. She came to Winterset in 1967 from Barney and was at the Bethesda facility since 1980.

Survivors include a niece, Mary Harper of Lorimor; sister-in-laws, Eunice Warren of Winterset and Eva Gardner of Indianola; two grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, a son and a brother.