Esther Marie (Copeland) Pickering (1970)

PICKERING, COPELAND, ALLEN, MCDOWELL, BIRGEN

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 8/29/2007 at 14:28:46

Winterset Madisonian - October 21, 1970
Winterset, Iowa

ESTHER PICKERING OF WINTERSET DIES

Mrs. Raymond Pickering of Winterset died Monday, Oct. 19, at Memorial hospital here. She was 65 years of age.

Mrs. Pickering has been a resident of Madison county the last 21 years. She was the former Esther Marie Copeland daughter of Charles and Rhoda Allen Copeland, and was born June 1, 1905, at Batavia.

She was married at Princeton, Mo., on Sept. 10, 1932, to Raymond Pickering, who survives her.

She was a member of the First United Methodist church of Winterset.

In addition to her husband, she leaves two sisters, Mrs. Dora McDowell of Winterset and Mrs. Alice Birgen of Las Cruces, N. Mex.

Funeral services will be held this Thursday at 2 p.m. from the First United Methodist church, in charge of the pastor the Rev. Newton Coughenour. Burial will be made in the Winterset cemetery.