FORD, Bessie Margaret (Lack) 1911-1946

FORD, LACK, TRESEMER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 4/4/2010 at 17:37:47

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Funeral at Orchard for Former Resident

ORCHARD, IOWA - Funeral services for Mrs. Carroll Ford, 35, will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Champion funeral home, with burial in the Orchard cemetery. She died Saturday at a sanatorium at Oak Terrace, Minnesota, where she was a patient for nearly a year.

Surviving are her husband of Minneapolis, her mother Mrs. Horatio Lack of Orchard, two sisters,
Mrs. Tom Tresemer of Orchard and Marilyn Lack of Mason City; and five brothers: Howard, John, Julian, Robert, and Harold, all of Orchard.

[Mason City Globe-Gazette, Monday, February 25, 1946]

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Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon at the Champion Funeral Home in Osage for Mrs. Carroll Ford, who died Saturday at a sanatorium at Oak Terrace, Minn. The Rev. Ross Hartman officiated at the services.

Margaret Bessie Lack, second daughter of Grace and Horatio W. Lack, was born in Orchard on February 20, 1911. She attended the Orchard school and graduated with the class of 1937. The same summer she enrolled in the University of Wisconsin and graduated with a B.A. degree in 1931.

In the fall of 1932 she began teaching the Grant school. One year later she accepted a teaching position in Orchard, where she taught for eight years. She attended church and Sunday school in the local church and at one time was assistant Sunday school superintendent.

She had a keen interest in traveling and visited many places of interest.

On May 10, 1942, she was united in marriage to Carrol A. Ford of Minneapolis, formerly of Orchard. They went at once to their new home in Minneapolis.

On March 9, 1945, she entered a sanatorium at Oak Terrace, Minn., and died at the same place February 23, 1946.

Surviving are her husband; her mother, five brothers, John, Howard, Julian, Robert, and Harold Lack; and two sisters, Blanche Tressmer and Marilyn Lack, all of Orchard.

[This obituary was in my grandmother Anna Matson Richardson's scrapbook. Newspaper unknown.]

Submitted by Darla Richardson Donovan 4/2011

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The Orchard Cemetery listing on IaGenWeb shows:

FORD, Bessie Margaret 1911 --- 1946