Alta (Stanley) Welch (1936)

BAKER, FRY, JACOBS, STANLEY, WELCH, WILLIAMSON

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 5/20/2007 at 19:20:54

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
April 1936

ALTA STANLEY WELCH

Time, the inevitable, the inscrutable, has turned the page of a life dearly beloved and death has thrown its dark shadow over another home lately graced by the presence of a sweet wife and mother.

Alta Stanley, daughter of Josiah and Sarah Stanley was born August 11, 1888 at the farm home four miles north of Earlham, Iowa.

She was the youngest member of a family of ten children seven girls and three boys. One sister and brother having passed on before her birth and one sister later.

She grew to young womanhood in Earlham. The family moving from the farm to town in 1902.

In the year 1904 she graduated from the Earlham Academy, later studying at Penn College and afterward teaching in the public schools in Iowa and Colorado.

In 1914 she was married to O. S. Welch at Hotchkiss, Colorado. One daughter, Martha Shirley was born to this union 17 years ago.

Her daughter, husband, four sisters and two brothers and a large company of relatives mourn the loss of mother, wife and sister.

Her sisters and brothers are as follows: Mrs. J. H. Williamson of Earlham, Mrs. Esla Baker of Osklaloosa, Mrs. Savannah Fry of Ames, Mrs. Lawrence Jacobs of Hotchkiss, Colorado, Charles Stanley and Ira Stanley of Earlham.

Mrs. Welch underwent a major operation at the hospital in Winfield, Kansas on March 18. It was believed at first that she was making a satisfactory recovery but pneumonia developed. She passed away Monday morning March 23 shortly after nine o'clock.

Funeral services were held in the Episcopal church at Winfield Monday evening with Rev. E. F. Wilcox, rector officiating. Services in Earlham conducted by Rev. Mrs. Lena Lescault Hadley of Des Moines were held at the Friends church Wednesday afternoon, March 25. Interment was in the Earlham cemetery.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 2, 1936
Page 9

Week’s Letter from Earlham

Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the Earlham Friends church for Mrs. Alta Stanley Welch, who passed away Monday, at Winfield, Kansas. Mrs. Lena Hadley of Des Moines had charge of the services. Burial was in the Earlham cemetery. Mrs. Welch was a sister of Mrs. John Williamson, and Charles and Ira Stanley of Earlham.

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