FLORENCE MCBETH 1904-1980

MCBETH, RHOADS, ROQUET, DINSMORE, COCHRANE, KOOL, MORROW, NILLES, ALDRIDGE, DAVIS, SWANSON

Posted By: Dana Roquet (email)
Date: 10/15/2010 at 19:14:09

OBITUARY

Patriot Chronicles
What Cheer IA
Nov 13, 1980

--Mrs. Florence A McBeth--
Mrs. Florence A. McBeth. 76, of Fremont, died Thursday, Nov 6 at her home.

The daughter of Francis A and Lena Dinsmore Rhoads, she was born January 28, 1904, in Fremont and lived in the Hedrick Communities most of her life.
On July 28, 1920, she was married to Roy McBeth in Ottumwa. He preceded her in death December 24, 1979.
Surviving are five sons, Waldo, Earnest and Charles of Ottumwa, Dale of Sioux Falls, S.D., and Kenneth of Upper Marlboro Md., four daughters, Mrs. Helen Cochrane and Mrs. Ruth Kool of Oskaloosa, Mrs. Marjorie Morrow of Ottumwa and Mrs. Anna Nilles of What Cheer; 23 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; four brothers, Floyd and Ward of Fremont, Raymond of Oskaloosa and Lowell of Ottumwa; five sisters, Mrs. Hazel Aldridge, Mrs. Laura Roquet of Fremont, Mrs. Lucille Davis of Canon City, Colo., Edna Rhoads of Phoenix, Ariz. and Eva Swanson of Hedrick.