Alverda Florence (Likens) Rankin (1935)

RANKIN, LIKENS, PEEK, NICOSON, MCMILLEN

Posted By: Linda Brittain (email)
Date: 12/9/2007 at 12:34:16

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
August 22, 1935 – page 4

Death of Mrs. Alverda Rankin

Mrs. Alverda Florence Rankin, a long time resident of Madison county, died at the Mercy hospital at Ft. Dodge on August 11. She was 80 years old.

Mrs. Rankin was born near Davenport on June 3, 1855. She was the daughter of Levi and Susan Likens. At the age of 14 years she moved with her parents to Brunswick, Missouri. There she married B. R. Rankin on January 5, 1876. They were the parents of two sons, Orville who died at the age of 17 years, and Frank Rankin, now of Bedford.

A few years later the family moved to Peru. They spent several years there and at Barney before moving to Truro. Mrs. Rankin lived at Truro until a year ago, when she went to Rolfe, Iowa, in company with her granddaughter and family. Her husband died in 1913.

Mrs. Rankin was baptized in the Methodist faith in childhood, and remained a member of that church throughout her life. She was a member of the Eastern Star and the W. C. T. U.

In addition to her son, she is survived by a sister, Mrs. J. O. Peek of Stillwater, Oklahoma, and five grandchildren, Gary Rankin of Truro, Mrs. Geraldine Nicoson of Rolfe, and Dale and Claude Rankin and Mrs. Phyllis McMillen of Bedford.