RAINEY, Bertha Bess

RAINEY, STACY, PROCTOR

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Glenwood Opinion Tribune July 7, 1955

Funeral Services Conducted For Mrs. Bertha Rainey

Funeral services" were conducted at 2 p. m. Saturday In Raynor Chapel for Bertha Bess Rainey, who died June 27, at the Good Samaritan Rest Home at Tabor. The Rev. William Lee, pastor of
the First Christian Church, officiated. Burial was in Glenwood cemetery. Music was by Mary E. Logan. Pallbearers were Harry Rainey, Dale Jackson, William Stacy, Ora Benedict, Clell McKlnney and James Scott, Jr. Flower bearers were Phyllis Proctor and Mrs. Robert Carnes.

Bertha Bess Rainey, daughter of A. D. C. Stacy and Ellen Marshall Stacy, was born March 4, 1880 at Marietta, Ohio and died at Tabor, June 27, 1966, aged 75 years, three months and 23 days.

As a baby, she moved to Iowa with her parents and made her home here the rest of her life. On August 23, 1917, she was united in marriage to John Ellis Rainey. To this union one son was born, Alfred E. Rainey Of New Orleans, La.

She was preceded in death by her husband, John, on March 3, 1927. She is survived by her son, M/Sgt. Alfred Rainey and many nephews, nieces and friends. She became a Christian early In her life and was a member of the Presbyterian Church at Sidney, Iowa.