Ogilvie, Bessie G. (or J.) 1886-1972

OGILVIE, YOUNG, PERKINS

Posted By: Mary Holub, volunteer (email)
Date: 9/25/2011 at 22:51:48

From: Le Mars Daily Sentinel, April 10, 1972

Bessie G. Ogilvie

Bessie G. Ogilvie, 86, 208 First Ave. SE, died Saturday, April 8, at Floyd Valley hospital after an illness of two months. She had been hospitalized three days.

Funeral services will be Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Mauer funeral chapel with Rev. Ralph Nelson officiating. Burial will be in the Le Mars Memorial cemetery under direction of the Mauer funeral home.

The former Bessie G. Young, she was born March 20, 1886, in Le Mars, a daughter of the late David and Annie (Perkins) Young. She married John Stewart Ogilvie March 20, 1913, in Le Mars.

Mrs. Ogilvie was a homemaker and a retired longtime bakery operator. She and her late husband operated the Vienna bakery on Plymouth St. NW for many years.

She was a lifelong resident of Le Mars and was a rural school teacher before her marriage.

Mrs. Ogilvie was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers and her husband in 1961.

Survivors are a son, Donald of San Pablo, Calif.; a daughter, Mrs. Harold (Annia) Stark of Iowa City and four grandchildren.