Orvetta Vivian (Smith) Lovett (1954)

LOVETT, SMITH, BEARD, REED, LOONEY

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Date: 8/5/2007 at 19:24:59

Winterset Madisonian,Winterset, Iowa
August 18, 1954, page 2

FORMER RESIDENT DIES AT IOWA CITY

Mrs. Orvetta V. Lovett, 39, wife of Dr. Duane W. Lovett of Iowa City, died at the University Hospital in Iowa City, Sunday, following a brief illness. Death was attributed to acute encephalitis

Mrs. Lovett was the former Orvetta Smith born August 7, 1915, at Mackinaw, Illinois, the daughter of P. F. and Adelia Looney Smith. Moving with her parents to Winterset at the age of two years, she spent much of her childhood with an aunt, Mrs. John Beard. She graduated from the Winterset high school in 1935 and was employed at Montross Pharmacy until her marriage.

Her marriage to Doctor Lovett took place August 8, 1937 and the couple had resided in Iowa City since that time. Mrs. Lovett was a lifelong and active member of the Methodist church.

Surviving besides her husband, a son, Charles Dean, 13 and a daughter Marcia Ann, 6, at home; her father, P. F. Smith, her mother. Mrs. Adelia Beard, Zimmerman, Minn; two sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Reed, Kevil, Kentucky and Gladys Beard, Princeton, Minnesota; five brothers, Leo Smith, Peoria, Illinois, Earl Beard, Zimmerman, Minn., Guy Beard, Winterset, Eldon Beard, Elk River, Minn., and Marvin Beard of Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Funeral services were Tuesday afternoon at Beckman's funeral home with Rev. Robert R. Sanks of the First Methodist Church officiating. Burial was in the Memory Gardens in Iowa City.