Vesta (Vanscoy) Killam (1940)

BRADSHAW, FOWLER, KILLAM, LYNCH, VANSCOY

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 6/26/2007 at 16:55:15

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, April 24, 1940

MRS. ROY KILLAM DIES

Funeral Rites at St. Charles Methodist Church This Thursday at 2:30 p.m.

Mrs. Roy Killam, well known Madison county resident, died at her home in Des Moines early Tuesday morning after an extended illness. She was 54 years of age.

Her funeral services will be held at the St. Charles Methodist church, Thursday, April 25, at 2:30 p.m. and burial will be in the cemetery nearby.

Mrs. Killam was the former Vesta Vanscoy. She was born July 27, 1885, near New Virginia, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Vanscoy. In 1892 the family moved to Woodburn, where she attended school. Later they moved to St. Charles, and here she continued through high school.

On May 29, 1908 she was married to Charles LeRoy Killam and they made their home in and near St. Charles, until 1936, when they moved south of Van Meter. Her failing health caused them to leave the farm, and she entered a hospital in Des Moines, February 26, 1940. A few weeks later she was taken to their new home in Des Moines, where she passed away April 23.

Mr. and Mrs. Killam were the parents of nine children, Twila Fay, infant of eighteen days, preceding the mother in death.

She leaves her husband, five daughters, Norma, Helen, Ethelyn, Arline and Charlotte, and three sons: Wilton with his wife, Cleo and two children, Catherine and Kenneth who live near Rippey, and Carl Warren and Edward. She also leaves three sisters, Mrs. Laura Fowler, Mrs. Leona Lynch and Mrs. Metta Bradshaw.

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