Frances Evelyn (Macumber) Shade (1956)

CARLSON, MACUMBER, SHADE

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 12/10/2006 at 15:26:45

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, August 15, 1956

MRS. REXFORD SHADE OF POCAHONTAS DIES

Mrs. Rexford Shade, formerly of this community, died July 19 at her home in Pocahontas, it was learned here this week. She was 43 years of age, and had been in ill health for several years.

Mrs. Shade was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Macumber of this community. She attended school here, and Simpson college in Indianola. Before her marriage she taught in the schools of Madison county.

She leaves her parents; her husband; four children, Gary, George, Marilyn and Roger; a sister, Mrs. George Carlson of Des Moines; and three brothers, Robert Macumber of Lorimor, Roland Macumber of Macon, Mo., and Morris Macumber of Norfolk, Va.

Funeral services were held from the Catholic church in Pocahontas with burial in the cemetery there.