Blanche Boren Welty
WELTY, BOREN
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 7/13/2006 at 15:41:57
Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
February 22, 1989BLANCHE WELTY, Indianola
Blanche Louise Welty, age 84, died Feb. 10, 1989, at Charter Hospital in Des Moines.
The daughter of William A. and Cora A. Boren, she was born August 11, 1904 at Knoxville, Ia.
She was a member of the Christian Church in Knoxville, and a graduate of Knoxville High School, teaching country school in Marion county. She attended two years of college at Cedar Falls, and attended Iowa Wesley College of Mt. Pleasant, Simpson, and Drake University until she received her masters degree. She taught grades 1-5 at Swan, Patterson, Peru and Runnells and later taught remedial reading in Phoenix school in West Des Moines.
In August 1942, she married Cressley Dewitt Welty and they made their home in Winterset for several years, moving to Indianola to farm in 1954, where they spent the rest of their lives.
(Note: Burial was at Sunset Memorial Gardens near Des Moines)
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