BLOES, Jessie (Bird) 1902-1995

BLOES, CUMMINGS, BIRD

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 12/18/2009 at 14:24:51

Jessie Bloes

OSAGE

Jessie Bloes, 93, of Oxnard, Calif., formerly of Osage and Waterloo, died Wednesday (Aug. 2, 1995) at her daughter's home in Oxnard, Calif.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Osage, with the Rev. Dennis Cahill officiating. Burial will be in the Sacred Heart Cemetery.

Visitation will begin 2:30 p.m. Monday at the Champion Funeral Home, with a 3 p.m. rosary and a 7:30 p.m. wake service.

Jessie Bloes was born July 18, 1902, on the family farm north of Osage to William Cummings and Clara Cummings (nee) Bird. She was educated in the Osage Schools.

She married John Bloes on Jan. 15, 1923, in Osage. They lived for a short time in Osage, then moved to Waterloo where John was employed by John Deere. Jessie moved to California after John's death in 1983. She lived with her daughter, Kathryn.

She is survived by her daughter, (Mrs. Ernest) Kathryn Sampson of Oxnard, Calif.; six grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; four sisters, Clara Tyler of Osage; Martha Haehn of Grand Meadow, Minn.; Frances Diedrich of Burlington, Wis., and Ellen Enfield of LeRoy, Minn.; and one brother Ralph Cummings of Osage.

Mason City Globe Gazette, 8/08/1995