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Clara Virginia (Knox) Bosley (1940)

AMMERMAN, BEAN, BOSLEY, FRANCIS, FREEMAN, KNOX

Posted By: Ida Morse
Date: 1/22/2006 at 16:19:54

Earlham Library Obituaries
Earlham, Iowa
October 1940

MRS. CLARA V. BOSLEY

Clara Virginia Knox eldest child of George Knox and Araminta Ammerman was born in Altoona, Illinois, February 14, 1862 and passed away at Des Moines, October 22, 1940 following a five months illness. When a small child her parents moved to Dexter, and in its public schools and Normal she received her education, afterwards teaching in the vicinity for four years. She was united in marriage to Mont. S. Bosley March 6, 1884 in Des Moines, and to this union were born seven children, one of whom died in infancy. Mr. Bosley passed away in 1927.

Mrs. Bosley spent her entire life in Dallas and Madison counties the last fifty years on the home farm, southwest of Earlham, which she rarely left except for brief periods. However in her busy life she was a good neighbor to all with whom she came in contact and it is as such that she would like to be remembered. She always enjoyed school activities and was a charter member of the Penn Center Social Circle.

Mrs. Bosley is survived by six children, all of whom were able to be with her during her last illness. They are: Mrs. Will Francis of Long Beach, California; Joe of Rochester, Minnesota; Edna of Chicago, Illinois; Mrs. Marjorie Freeman of West Des Moines; Howard of Earlham; and Homer of Des Moines. There is one grandchild Walter Bosley of Earlham, one brother Irvine A. Knox of Felton, Minnesota, one sister Mrs. Emma Bean of Mitchellville, Iowa, with many frineds and neighbors who will miss this long time resident of theri (their) community, especially those of riper years.

When the family came to Iowa they came in a covered wagon.

Funeral from Penn Center Methodist Church conducted by Rev. J. H. Fredline. Interment in Penn Cener Cemetery.

Hymns song were: "The City Four Square", "Beulah Land", and "Nearer My god to Thee." The singers were: Ruth Mapes, Mrs. Roy Imbodeun, Ralph Clague and O. J. DeVault, with Mrs. Ralph Clague at the piano.

Pall bearers were: Raymond Breckenridge, George Werts, Roy Taylor, Walter Piatt, August Bloomquist and Harry Rausenberger.

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