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Melvina Reeves Vandeburg (1916)

REEVES, VANDEBURG, VANDERBERG, WILSON

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 12/19/2006 at 21:32:24

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
February 16, 1916

MRS. MELVINA VANDEBURG

This community was deeply shocked yesterday morning by the announcement that Mrs. M. V. Vandeburg had died very suddenly during the night at her home on West Court avenue. Mrs. Vandeburg was in her usual health when she retired in the evening, and was expecting company on the following day. However, she had been subject to heart trouble for some years and her death, on that account, was not altogether unexpected.

Mr. and Mrs. Vandeburg were for many years residents of Webster township, and moved to Winterset when they left the farm a few years ago.

They have three children, Arthur Vandeburg and Mrs. Ray Wilson of this county and Mrs. John Wilson of South Dakota.

Funeral services will be held tomorrow.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, March 1, 1916

MRS. MELVINA VANDEBURG - Mortuary

Mrs. Melvina Reeves was born near Sharon, Pa., Feb. 4, 1845 and passed away peacefully at her home in Winterset, Iowa, Feb. 14, 1916, aged 71 years, 10 days.

At the age of ten she moved with her parents to Rock Island county, Illinois. In 1869 she was married to Martin V. Vandeburg. To this union were born three children: Arthur, a prosperous farmer of Webster township; Minnie Wilson, Lyonville, S. D., who resides on a farm and Jennie Wilson, who resides on the home farm, while she leaves these children and a sorrowing husband she also leaves nine grandchildren to mourn her death; the husband, a companion; the three children, a devoted mother and the grandchildren, a kind grandmother.

After her marriage they moved to Webster township, in Madison county in 1875. In 1903 they moved to Winterset, where she resided at her death.

She was a member of the Evangelical church of Webster township, known as Maple Grove and was a kind and conscientious christian. After moving to Winterset, she united with the Presbyterian church and was a faithful christian and lived an exemplary life.

Funeral services were conducted at the home by her pastor, Rev. Corkey. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Matt. 5:8.

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