Erabelle Marie (Moland) Fletcher (1952)

FLETCHER, MOLAND, MILLS, GORMAN, FEROE

Posted By: Ida Morse (email)
Date: 3/28/2007 at 19:01:48

Winterset Madisonian, November 12, 1952, Pg 1
Winterset, Iowa

INJURY FATAL TO MRS. FLETCHER

Services Friday at Richards and United Brethren Church

Mrs. W. D. Fletcher, member of a prominent Jefferson township family, died at Memorial hospital Tuesday afternoon, of injuries sustained in an automobile collision Monday morning on highway No. 169, three miles north of Winterset. She received a skull fracture in the accident, and died about 28 hours later, without regaining consciousness.

Mrs. Fletcher was 60 years of age. She was the former Erabelle Marie Moland, daughter of John and Anna Moland, and was born May 22, 1892, on a farm near Slater in Story county. As a young girl she was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran church near her home.

After graduation from high school, she attended Iowa State college in Ames, where she studied music.

She was married to W. D. Fletcher on Aug. 5, 1914, and they spent their entire married life on the same farm in Jefferson township of this county. She was a long-time member of the United Brethren church in Jefferson township serving as choir leader, and was active in its women’s organization.

She leaves her husband; five children, A. P. Fletcher of Des Moines, Mrs. Gayla Mills of Winterset, Willis Fletcher of Jefferson township, Mrs. Ruth Gorman of Winterset; and Paul Fletcher, a junior at the Winterset high school. She also leaves a brother, Thomas Moland of Slater; two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Feroe of Des Moines and Cora Morland of Nevada; and nine grandchildren.

Brief funeral services will be held this Friday at 1:15 p.m. from the Richards Funeral home; followed by formal services at 2 p.m. from the United Brethren church in Jefferson township. The Rev. William Suckow of Van Meter will conduct the services. Burial will be made in the United Brethren cemetery near the church.

Note: Burial was in Jefferson-Goar Cemetery