Alma Catherine Julian 1887-1965
JULIAN BABBE
Posted By: Connie J Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/1/2012 at 19:15:11
Mapleton Press
24 June 1965Alma Catherine Julian, daughter of Margaret and John Babbe, was born July 12, 1887, near Danbury, Iowa She grew up on a farm in Woodbury county and was the oldest child it a family of six children.
She taught school in a rural Danbury school for a short period of time before attending a business college at Denison, Iowa. After completion of this schooling she took a bookkeeping position at Larrabee, Iowa, for a short time and later did bookkeeping for a grocery store and the county treasurer's office at Rock Rapids, Iowa.
After her marriage to Clarence Julian on August 25, 1925, at Ida Grove, Iowa, she and her husband moved to Yankton. South Dakota, where they lived until 1943 when they moved to Sioux City In 1945 they moved from Sioux City to a farm near Danbury and lived on this farm for five years before moving to a home in Mapleton. Although she had been handicapped since birth she became very talented at bookkeeping, sewing, and painting.
Mrs. Julian died June 17, 1965 at the Correctionville nursing home at the age of 77 years, II months and 5 days.
Funeral services were held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, June 19, 1965, at the Walter Chapel in Mapleton. Rev. Byron .Ayers, pastor of St. John's Methodist church, officiated. Interment was in the Heisler cemetery at Mapleton under direction of the Walter Funeral Service.
Pallbearers were Lawrence Otto, Earl Otto, Leo Davis, Gilbert Babbe, Everett Durston and Carl Treiber.
Survivors include her husband, Clarence; two sisters, Mrs. Charles Wacker of Ida Grove, Iowa, and Mrs. Louise Treiber of Battle Creek, Iowa; two brothers, Arnold
Babbe of Mapleton and Lawrence Babbe of Danbury. She was preceded in death by her parents and one sister.
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