Gravina Ellen (Allen) Jeffers (1933)

ALLEN, JEFFERS, MCKERN

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:02:51

The Evening Nonpareil Newspaper
Council Bluffs, Iowa
Monday, January 30, 1933

Stricken with heart disease, Mrs. Gravina Ellen Jeffers, 64, a resident of Council Bluffs for fifty-five years, died at her home at 2204 South avenue at 1:45 a.m. Monday, She had been ill one day.

Born in Madison county, she came to Council Bluffs in 1878.

She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Florence McKern, one son, Earl Jeffers: two brothers, A. D. Allen and Charles Allen: ten grandchildren and one great grandchild, all of Council Bluffs.

The body was removed to Woodring’s mortuary.
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The Evening Nonpareil Newspaper
Council Bluffs, Iowa
Thursday, February 2, 1933

Funeral services for Mrs. Gravina Ellen Jeffers were held Wednesday at 2 p. m. at Woodring’s chapel. Rev. M. B. Pringle of the First Christian church officiated. Music was furnished by Mrs. R. D. Phinney and Mrs. J. W. Tionor, accompanied by Mrs. R. O. Williams. Pallbearers were Frank Allen, Donald Allen, Alfred Allen, Maurice Woolhiser, Harold McKern and Emil Graalfs. Burial was in Walnut Hill cemetery.

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