Mrs. Alva E Hesser Mills
HESSER, MILLS
Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 1/5/2015 at 20:20:24
Mrs. Alva E Mills.
Mrs. Alva E. Mills, 91, a Muscatine resident for 30 years, died at 8:55 a.m. Sunday at the Riverview Heights nursing home after an extended illness.
Mrs. Mills was born Jan 26, 1875, at Greenfield, Ia., in Adair County, the daughter of John C and Eliza Reynolds Hesser.
She was married July 1, 1891 to John Mills. She was a member of Calvary Baptist church.
Surviving are four sons, Glenn Mills of Wapello, Emery Mills of Maquoketa, W.D. Mills of Los Angeles, and Harley Mills of Bellflower, Calif., one brother Harry Hesser of St. Paul, Minn., one sister, Nellie Milton of Muscatine; 16 grandchildren, six great grandchildren, and five great great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, one daughter, three brothers, and three sisters.
The body is at George M. Wittich funeral home, where services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday with Rev. Herbert Gotaas officiating. Interment will be at the Drury-Reynolds cemetery at Drury Twp., Ill.
Source: The Muscatine News-Tribune, Muscatine, Ia. 31 Oct 1966.
Muscatine Obituaries maintained by Lynn McCleary.
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