Alma Chenowith Binns

BINNS, CHENOWITH, CLINE, YOUNG, KELLOGG

Posted By: Ida Morse (email)
Date: 2/16/2006 at 21:42:45

Winterset Madisonian August 16, 1934, Pg 1
Winterset, Iowa

DEATH OF MRS. B. S. BINNS

A brief illness lasting little more than a week, was fatal to Mrs. B. S. Binns, who died at her home in Winterset August 7. She was 68 yars old.

Mrs. Binns was born Alma Chenowith, in Marion county, on January 27, 1866. As a young woman she went to Missouri, and there was married to Frank Cline on March 8, 1885. They settled in Otumwa (Ottumwa), Iowa, living there for 17 years, later moving to Burlington, where Mr. Cline died. Seven years later she married B. S. Binns of Winterset, and moved to this city. She was a member of the Episcopal church, being affiliated at Ottumwa and Burlington.

Mrs. Binns is survived by her husband, two sons, John Cline of Illinois, and George Cline of Michigan and two sisters, Mrs. William Young and Mrs. Sadie Kellogg, both of Winterset.

Funeral services were held last Friday at 9 a.m. from the Tidrick funeral home, in charge of the Rev. L. H. Lanning, pastor of the First Methodist church. Burial was made at Ottumwa, with the Rev. L. H. Matheus, rector of the Episcopal church there, in charge of the grave service.