WATTS, Elizabeth Kathryn (Kempf) 1885-1948

WATTS, KEMPF, MENGEL, ANDERSON, AREND, BURNHAM, ANDERLIK, BLOSS

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Date: 6/17/2011 at 13:43:37

Elizabeth Kathryn (Kempf) Watts 1885-1948

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RITES TUESDAY FOR MRS. GUY WATTS AT WATERLOO

Mrs. Guy Watts of Waterloo, formerly of La Porte City and vicinity, died at Allen Memorial hospital Friday evening at 9:30 o'clock. Death was due to a heart attack following an operation for gall bladder trouble a week previous. She had been in ill health for several months.

As Elizabeth Kathryn Kempf, she was born June 1, 1885, to Adam and Dora (Mengel) Kempf on a farm near Mooreville in Benton County, Iowa, and lived the early years of her life in Bruce Township.

She was married to Guy Watts of this vicinity in Vinton, on November 30, 1904. They armed for a time in Bruce township and later moved to La Porte City where they lived until going to Waterloo to reside in 1922.
She is survived by her husband, three daughters, Mrs. Lane Anderson and Mrs. H. J. Arend of Waterloo and Mrs. K. V. Burnham of Tulsa, Oklahoma; three sisters, Miss Kathryn Kempf and Mrs. Lillian Anderlik, Riceville; and Mrs. Anna Bloss, Osage; one brother, George Kempf, Riceville, and six grandchildren.
Her parents preceded her in death.

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the Kearns Garden Chapel and burial was made in a Waterloo Cemetery.

Relatives from here who attended the services in Waterloo were Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Klar and family; Mr. and Mrs. George Bunz, Sr.; George Bunz, Jr.; Henry Mengel; Archie Mengel; Mr. and Mrs. George Mengel, Jr.; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Fleming; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Thede; Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Dunkelberger; Mr. and Mrs. Loren Dunkelberger; Mr. and Mrs. Geo Vopelak and Mrs. Keith Gravenhorst.

Progress Review, La Porte, Black Hawk, Iowa April 8, 1948

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ELIZABETH KATHRYN WATTS

Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Kathryn Watts, of 1823 Hawthorne Avenue, who died Friday, will be conducted Tuesday at 1 p.m. at Kearns Garden chapel by Rev. Gilbert S. Cox, pastor of First Methodist Church.
Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery

Waterloo Courier, Monday April 5, 1948

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Elizabeth Kemp was born June 1885 in Iowa, the daughter of Adam and Dorothea "Dora" (Mengel) Kempf. (from 1900 US Census)

She married William Guy Watts, the son of William Watts and Hattie (Wilson) Watts. (1925 Iowa Census for parents of the