Minnie E. (Copeland) Wilson (1945)

ANDERSON, BEAM, COPELAND, HOGELUND, LAIRE, LOWMAN, MEWHIRTER, MURRELL, NELSON, WESTOVER

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:04:40

The Sun
Red oak, Iowa
Thursday, January 25, 1945
Page 5, Column 6

Mrs. Minnie Wilson Buried Wednesday

After An Illness of Several Months Red Oak Woman Dies Sunday at Home of Mrs. Sam Stennett.

Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie E. Wilson were held from the Bileau & Thomas garden chapel at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 24, with Rev. Guy J. Fansher of the Methodist church officiating. Pallbearers were Frank Craig, Dale Petty, Lester Shires, Frank Wenberg, George Marsh and Ray Anderson. Music was by Mrs. Orrin Carmichael, soloists, with Mrs. Ray Cozad at the organ. Mrs. Frank Wenberg and Mrs. Verni Combs took care of the flowers. Burial was in Lowman cemetery.

Mrs. Wilson was born Aug. 21, 1872, in Wapello county, Ia., a daughter of Charles and Martha Copeland. She was married to Job S. Wilson Aug. 21, 1887. Her husband died Dec. 4, 1926. Nine of their 11 children survive as follows: Mrs. Luther Anderson, Mrs. Earl Lowman, Mrs. Harry Laire and Russell Wilson of Red Oak, Mrs. Otto Nelson, Aunsville, Ore.; Mrs. Ed Murrell, Mrs. Everett Beam and Gordon Wilson of Winterset, Ted Wilson of Lorimor. Three stepchildren are Mrs. Jesse Mewhirter, of Griswold, Scott Wilson of Elliott and Mrs. Clyde Hogelund, Bloomington, Neb. Thirty-two grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, one brother, Ed Copeland of red Oak, and a sister Mrs. Myrtle Westover of Grant, also survive.
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Transcriber's note: Per the husband's obituary, the Wilsons lived in Madison County from about 1918 until his death in December 1925.

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