Venus L. (Clark) Birdsall (1927)
CLARK, BIRDSALL, CLANTON, JOHNSON, AYERS
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:03:26
Atlantic News Telegraph
Atlantic, Iowa
Monday, March 7, 1927
Page 1, Column 6YOUNG MOTHER IS DEAD HERE FROM FLU-PNEUMONIA
Mrs. John T. Birdsall Dies Three Weeks After Birth of Daughter. Funeral Tomorrow.
Mrs. John T. Birdsall, Highland addition, died yesterday afternoon at the family home after an illness of about four weeks with flu and pneumonia. She had been in a critical condition since the birth of a baby daughter three weeks ago. The little girl is getting along nicely. At the time of her death, the deceased was 30 years, 4 months and 6 days old.
Deceased, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Clark, has lived in Atlantic for over twenty years and is well known here. She is survived by her husband, one son, 5 and two daughters, one 2 years old and the other three weeks old, together with her parents, her maternal grandmother, Mrs. I. N. Clanton, and two sisters, Mrs. L. Johnson and Mrs. John Ayers, of this city, and one brother, Merle Clark, at home.
She was married to John P. Birdsall in Atlantic Oct. 9, 1919.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon at the Atlantic Congregational church, the Rev. L. A. Spooner officiating. Interment will be made in the Atlantic cemetery.
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