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BISBEE, Virgil Eugene 1869-1943

BISBEE, BUELL, HOUGHTON, JACOBSON

Posted By: County Coordinator (kermit)
Date: 1/11/2016 at 20:46:13

Virgil Bisbee Dies at Stacyville Home

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STACYVILLE - Virgil E. Bisbee, 74, died suddenly at his home Monday. He had been in failing health a long time. Surviving are his wife and 14 children.

The children are Mrs. Cora Olsen, Fargo, N. Dak.; Mrs. Van Alstine, Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. Herb Morse, Spokane, Wash.; Mrs. Lewis Jensen, Billings, Mont.; Mrs. Nick Reis, Billings, Mont.; Mrs. Thomas G. Kelley, Miles City, Mont.; Mrs. L. E. Hough, Los Angeles; Howard Bisbee, Wichita, Kansas; Leonard Bisbee, Los Angeles; Mrs. Raymond Bundlie, Vancouver, Wash.; Raymond Bisbee, Minneapolis, Curtis of Lyle, Minn.; Art of Toeterville, and Bradford of Stacyville. He also leaves a sister, Mrs. A. C. Meyers of Fort Sumner, N. Mex., and one brother, A. C. Bisbee of Lyle.

Mr. and Mrs. Bisbee celebrated their golden wedding in 1939.

Funeral services will be held at Champion funeral parlors Friday afternoon and burial will be at Six Mile Grove cemetery east of Lyle, Minn. The Rev. H. M. Risse of St. Ansgar will officiate.

SOURCE: The Mason City Globe Gazette, 18 Aug. 1943, page 14, column 6

Credit: Kathy Pike, 1/2016
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Virgil Eugene Bisbee -- 1869-1943

Funeral Services for Virgil Bisbee at Osage Friday, August 20

Virgil Eugene Bisbee, 74, died at his home at Stacyville Monday from a heart attack. he had been ill some time, and had never recovered his strength. However, he was about as usual and his sudden death was a great shock to his family. He was about to start with his car on an errand when the attack came.

Mr. Bisbee was born November 4, 1869, in Nevada township, Mower county, Minnesota, the son of Augusta C. Bisbee and Helen Buell Houghton. He spent his boyhood on the farm there.

He was united in marriage to Hannah Jacobson of Lyle, in 1890, and they established their home on the parental farm. They continued to live there until 1910 when they moved to Baker, Montana. In 1932 they returned to Iowa and have lived at various places.

Mr. and Mrs. Bisbee were parents of 15 children, only one of whom preceded him in death. That was Lester Bisbee, who passed away in 1918 from influenza at the age of 18 years.

Surviving is Mrs. Bisbee and children Mrs. Delos Van Alstin (Helen) at Royal Oak, Michigan; Mrs. Cora Olson of Fargo, N. D., and her twin, Curtis Bisbee of Lyle; Mrs. Thomas Kelley (Myrtle) of Miles City, Mont.; Bradford Bisbee of Stacyville; Arthur Bisbee of Toeterville; Mrs. Nick Reis (Irene); and Mrs. Louis Jenson (Marle) both of Billings, Mont., Howard Bisbee of Wichita, Kansas; Raymond Bisbee of Minneapolis; Mrs. Luverne Hough (Lottie) of Los Angeles, California; Mrs. Ray Bundlie (Vivian) of Vancouver, Washington; Mrs. Herbert Morse (Verna) of Spokane, Washington; and Leonard Bisbee of Los Angeles, Cal.

Thirty-five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren also survive; also a brother, Allen C. Bisbee of Lyle, Minn., and a sister, Mrs. William Mayers of Sumner, N. M., Mrs. C. M. West of Mitchell, is a cousin.

Funeral service was held last Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Champion Funeral Home in Osage in charge of the Rev. Harvey Risse of Mitchell and burial was in the Six Mile Grove cemetery east of Lyle.

Source: the St. Ansgar Enterprise, 26 Aug. 1943,

page 1, column 1

NOTE: birth year differs between obituary and headstone

Credit: Mitche Helle, 4/2016

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