Martha L. (Newman) Tharp (2006)

BEQUETTE, BUTLER, KUBIK, NEWMAN, PHILIPSEN, SWANSON, THARP

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 1/4/2007 at 10:20:28

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, January 3, 2007

MARTHA THARP, Winterset

Martha L. Tharp, 86, died Dec. 28, 2006, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.

Funeral services were held yesterday, Jan. 2, at the First Baptist Church in Winterset. Burial was held in the Dalmanutha Cemetery near Casey. Memorial contributions may be directed to a fund which has been established in her name.

Martha was born Nov. 6, 1920, in Ashland, Kan., to Ralph Blaine and Lillie (Swanson) Newman. She attended Lincoln High School in Des Moines. She was married on April 18, 1938, to I. Dale Tharp. Martha was a homemaker and a member of the First Baptist Church and the Joy Club.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; a son, Ralph Tharp; two sisters, Mildred and Bernadine, and a granddaughter, Tracy.

She is survived by a son, Verlin Tharp of Guthrie Center; two daughters, Patricia Bequette of Patterson and Vickie Butler of Winterset; two sisters, Marjorie Kubik of Cedar Rapids and Virginia Philipsen of Des Moines; a brother, Ralph Newman of Des Moines; six grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildren.

Arrangements were handled by Ochiltree Funeral Service & Aftercare in Winterset.

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