Becker, Mrs. Jessie 1887-1940

BECKER, CALHOUN

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 3/30/2010 at 12:59:20

LeMars Sentinel
January 19, 1940

Mrs. Jessie Becker Answers Final Call
Member of Well Known Family

Mrs. Jessie Becker, 52, well known resident of LeMars, where she lived the
greater part of her life, died at her home 222 Seventh Avenue SW, Tuesday,
January 17.

Jessie Calhoun was born in Plymouth County July 8, 1887, and with the
exception of fifteen years when she resided in South Dakota, lived in and
around LeMars.

She was married to Nick Becker October 18, 1910, at Elk Point, S.D. She is
survived by her husband, Nick Becker, and three children; Dorothy and Donald
of LeMars, and a daughter, Mrs. Vern Myers, of Bowman, N.D.; her father,
Frank Calhoun, two sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Wilmes, Mrs. Jos. Sutton; three
brothers James, John and Frank Calhoun, of this city.

FUNERAL FRIDAY AFTERNOON

The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock in St. John’s
Lutheran Church. Rev. L.L. Belk, the pastor, will conduct the service.

Nephews will act as pallbearers: Lercy Calhoun, Joseph, Arnold, Francis and
Cecil Sutton and Stanley Wilmes.

Interment will be made in the City Cemetery. The arrangements are in charge
of Wiltgen’s.