Alberta McDonald Binns

BINNS, MCDONALD, NELSON, VEED, BERGMAN, HART, VIOLET, CREGER, MITCHELL

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 2/7/2006 at 16:40:20

ALBERTA BINNS, Texas

Winterset Madisonian
August 31, 2005

Alberta Binns, 89, of Sugar Land, Texas, died Aug. 28, 2005, at the Rosenberg Health & Rehab Center in Rosenberg, Texas.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 1, at the First Baptist Church in Winterset with the Rev. Dr. John Shaull officiating. Visitation will be held today (Wed. Aug. 31) from noon to 8 p.m. at Collins Oak Park Chapel in Winterset where the family will receive friends from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Burial will be at the Winterset Cemetery.

Alberta Binns was born July 12, 1916, in Winterset to Fletcher and Carrie (Violet) McDonald. On May 4, 1937, she married Eugene C. Binns in Des Moines. Alberta had been a homemaker and also farmed with her husband. She was a resident of Madison County for 83 years before moving to Adel in 1999 and then to Texas in 2001. She ws a member of the Worthington United Methodist Church in Madison County.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, two brothers, Roy McDonald and Clarence McDonald; and two sisters, Gladys Nelson and Pearl Veed.

She is survived by one daughter, Emma Jean Bergman and husband Clifford of Sugar Land, Texas; two sisters, Blanche Hart of Phoenix, Ariz., and Edna Creger of Des Moines; one grandaughter, Kelli J. Mitchell and husband Dan; and two great-grandchildren, McKenna L. Mitchell and Morgan T. Mitchell.