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Omer Berry (1972)

BERRY, COLE, FARR, PETERSON, SHACKELFORD

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 4/6/2010 at 15:31:46

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, January 12, 1972
Page 8

Omer Berry Dies At 73

Omer Berry, well known Monroe township farmer, died this Monday, January 10, at the Clarke County hospital. He was 73 years of age.

A son of Charles A. and Clara Shackelford Berry, he was born in Monroe township Feb. 3, 1899. He spent his entire adult life in that community north of Lorimor.

On Feb. 12, 1924, he married Thelma Cole at Creston.

Surviving are his wife and four children, Charles, of Winterset, Robert, of Ankney, Mrs. Kathryn Farr, of Winterset, and Lester of Albuquerque, New Mexico; sixteen grandchildren, and five great grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Lyle Davis and one brother, Orra Berry, of Winterset.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Olga Peterson.

Funeral services for Mr. Berry will be held at 2 p.m. this Thursday, Jan. 13 from the Watts - Soll Funeral home in Lorimor, with the Rev. M. Stanley Ballard officiating. Burial will be in the Winterset cemetery.

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