Alma Rawlings 1901-1954

RAWLINGS

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 3/26/2007 at 02:48:11

Onawa Democrat- Onawa, Monona County, Iowa

6 January 1955

Well Known Business, Club Woman Dies

Miss Alma Rawlings, A Resident Of Onawa For The Past 25 Years, Died At A.S.C. Hospital Dec. 29, 1954

She held the office of Deputy County Recorder for ten years and the past 15 years has been with the National Loan Ass’n

Miss Alma Rawlings, daughter of W.H. and Anna Rawlings was born in Castana, Iowa, June 16, 1901. She died on December 29, 1954 in the Lutheran hospital at Sioux City. She was 53 years of age. She had been in failing health for the past two years and had been in the hospital four weeks at the time of her death.

She graduated from the Castana High School. Her church member ship was in the community church in Castana. She was interested in music and studied for some time in Chicago including the pipe organ. In the Onawa Congregational church where she attended, she sang in the choir and served on the music committee.

She came to Onawa as a young woman. She was deputy County Recorder for ten years and for the past 15 years she worked with Harold Boe as assistant secretary and Treasurer of the Onawa office of the National Farm Loan Association. She was a charter member of the Onawa Business and Profrssional Women’s Club and its President for some time. She also was prominent in the Iowa State Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Club, holding various officers in that organization. She was a member of the Rebekah Lodge of Castana.

She is survived by her brother, Fred Rawlings of Omaha, Nebr. and other relatives.

Alma was a woman of integrity public spirit and personal charm. Memorials in her memory were given to the Cancer Fund and to the Congregational church.

Funeral services were held on Friday, December 31, 1954, at 2 p.m. at the Congregational church in Onawa with Rev. Barney Crockett conducting the services. Evan Davies gave comfort in song accompanied at the organ by Mrs. Oliver C. Kelley.

Bearers were Sewell Allen, Wayne Virtue, H. O. Boe, Gordon Oliver, Egon Stangel and John Masters. The Business and Professional Women’s Club attended in a group. Interment was in the Center Cemetery at Castana. Arrangements by the Pearson Funeral Home.