Lolah Aletha (Goodridge) Shearer (1953)

BAILEY, DAY, GOODRIDGE, SHEARER, SMITH

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 7/26/2007 at 20:46:08

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, September 9, 1953
Section 2, Page 1, Column 5

MRS. EMERY SHEARER OF MACKSBURG DIES

Death Occurs at Memorial Hospital at Age of 47 Years

Mrs. Emery Shearer of Webster township died at the Madison county Memorial hospital in Winterset last Friday, Sept. 4 after an extended illness. She was 47 years of age.

Mrs. Shearer was born at Thayer July 28, 1906, a daughter of Torrey and Nellie Goodridge. Her early life was spent in Lorimor, where she graduated from high school with the class of 1925.

She married Emery Shearer on April 26, 1925. They were parents of four children, one son, Wayne dying in infancy.

Mrs. Shearer was a member of the Lorimor Methodist church, Order of Eastern Star, Woman's Relief corps of Macksburg and the Wayside Garden club and took an active interest in many community affairs.

Besides her husband, she leaves a son, Dean, at home; two daughters, Mrs. George Bailey of Winterset, and Mrs. Verle Smith of Waukee; a sister, Mrs. Robert Day of Thayer; a brother, Floyd Goodridge of Des Moines.

Funeral services were held Sunday from the Macksburg Methodist church, conducted by the Rev. C. M. Rowe. Burial was made in the Lorimor cemetery.
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Coordinator's note: First and middle name taken from the Iowa Birth Record for son Wayne Emery Shearer.

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