Bertha McKinzie

MCKINZIE, BENNETT, JONES, WALLACE, WEAVER, HUFFMAN, CRESWELL

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Date: 2/16/2006 at 12:09:53

BERTHA MCKINZIE

Creston News
3 August 1989

Bertha B. McKinzie, 89, of Crest Haven Care Center in Creston, formerly of Macksburg, died Wednesday morning, Aug. 2, 1989 at the care center.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at the United Methodist Church in Macksburg. The Rev. Kathy Raines will officiate the service with burial in the Moon Cemetery, Macksburg. Visitation will be after 9 a.m. today until time of services. A family night will be from 7-8 p.m. today at the Keating-Lindsay Golden Rule Funeral Home at Creston.

Mrs. McKinzie was born Sept. 3, 1899 in Adams County to James R. and Lillian (Jones) Bennett. She married Harmon Andrew McKinzie Feb. 22, 1920 in Winterset. She was a lifetime resident of Macksburg. She participated in the family hog business, buying and trucking hogs herself to Ottumwa and Omaha, retiring in 1974. She was the Winterset Covered Bridge Festival queen in 1977. She was a member of the Macksburg United Methodist Church, Hawthorne Rebecca Lodge of Macksburg, Women's Relief Corps No. 322 of Macksburg and a past 4-H leader.

Survivors include a daughter, Marian L. Wallace of Creston; seven grandchildren; 14 great grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; a brother, Alden (wife Madaline) Bennett of Des Moines; and three sisters, June (husband Glen) Weaver and Edith Huffman of Creston and Edna Creswell of Dexter.

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; a son, R. Byrle McKinzie; two sisters, Elsie and Florence; and six brothers, Ralph, Louis, Bernard, Glen, Francis and Harold.