Azle E. Teter 1883-1951

HARRITT, MITCHELL, DORAN, BEARD, KARR, BAUGHMAN, NORRIS, WILBUR

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Date: 7/17/2005 at 18:11:14

From the Knoxville Journal, November, 1951
Obituary
AZLE E. TETER Azel E. Teter son of Samuel E. and Mary Harritt Teter was born in Kingman county, Kansas, January 2, 1883, and died at Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines, October 21, 1951, after several months illness.

The deceased lived in Kansas until the opening of the Cherokee Strip when he moved with his family to Nobel County, Oklahoma. In 1898 his grandfather's health failed and his parents moved to the Teter Homestead north of Knoxville, to care for his grandfather.

In 1909 Mr. Teter moved back to Oklahoma where on December 14, 1911, he was united in marriage to Allie M. Mitchell. To this union were born three children, Lois, now Mrs Robert Doran, of Des Moines; Loy N., of Illinois, and Veva, now Mrs. Ted Beard, of Des Moines. Azle Teter and his family lived in Oklahoma for two years, spent four years in Colorado and the rest of the time farming in and around Knoxville, Iowa

The deceased is survived by is widow, three children and three sisters, Mrs. Tressa Wilbur and Mrs. Cora Karr of Knoxville, and Mrs. Nellie Baughman, of Highland Park, Ill. One sister, Mrs. Wanda Norris, preceded him in death February 28, as did his only brother, William Anderson Teter, who died in November, 1939. During his last illness he was cared for in his home by his wife until his condition became so critical that it was necessary to move him to the hospital, where everything possible was done for him, to no avail.

Funeral services were held from the Re-organized Church of the Latter Day Saints October 24, at 2 o'clock, conducted by Elder John W. Caswell. Interment was made in the Graceland Cemetery.