Higginbotham, Thelma 1902-1986

HIGGINBOTHAM, WEAVER

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Date: 2/13/2004 at 21:10:23

LeMars Sentinel, 14 Jan 1986

THELMA HIGGINBOTHAM

Thelma Higginbotham, 82, of LeMars died Monday ( Jan 13, 1986 ) at Floyd Valley Hospital in Lemars after a brief illness.

Funeral will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Mauer - Johnson Funeral Home in LeMars. Rev. Debra Warnes will officiate. Burial will be in the Kingsley cemetery.

Mrs.. Higginbotham, the former THELMA WEAVER , was born Nov. 18, 1902 in Iowa to Frank Weaver and Mabel ( Parker ) Weaver Maywall. She attended meridian Schools, she married Arthur Higginbotham Oct. 14, 1921, at Storm lake. The couple lived most of their married life in Kingsley. He died in 1966 and she moved to LeMars in 1968.

Survivors are three daughters: Dorothy Nitzsche of LeMars, Mrs. Robert ( Carol ) Badgerow of Harrison, Ark., and Mrs. Wayne ( Kathleen ) Wenzel of Fairmont, MN.: two sons, Arthur E. of McPherson, Kan., and James R. of Colorado Springs, Colo.; a brother Wilbur of Stuart, Fla.; 28 grandchildren and mant great - great grandchildren, She was preceded in death by her parents, two sons and two daughters.