Stoaks, Edna (Bloom) 1883-1964

STOAKS, BUMPUS, BLOOM, BELL, GOOCH, PHIPPS, OGREN

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Date: 8/28/2010 at 19:58:04

The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register; April 30, 1964

WEDNESDAY RITES HELD HERE FOR MRS. EDNA STOAKS

Funeral services for Mrs. Edna Stoaks, 80, were held Wednesday afternoon form the Smith Funeral Home with the Rev. Morris Hay, pastor of the Hickory Grove E.U.B. church, officiating.

Mrs. Stoaks, a former resident of Grinnell, died Monday morning at a Montezuma nursing home. She had been in ill health for the past year and one-half.

Organ music at the services was provided by Mrs. Rhee Auman. Pallbearers were Barry Bell, Dale Bell, Don Bell, Burdette Phipps, Jim Richardson, and Ronnie Williams. Interment was in Hickory Grove cemetery.

She was the daughter of Bernard and Isabelle Bumpus Bloom and was born Dec. 17, 1883, at Galt, Ill. Her family left Illinois when she was 18 years old to farm in the Hickory Grove area of Jasper county.

In 1906, she was united in marriage with John Bell and to this union were born six children: Mrs. Delmar (Bessie) Gooch of New Sharon; Leo Bell of La Puenta, Calif.; Mrs. David (Irma) Phipps of Minneapolis, Minn.; Miss Alice Bell of Marshalltown; Everett Bell of Des Moines; and Mrs. John (Myrtle) Ogren of Des Moines.

Mr. and Mrs. Bell farmed in the Newburg area until her husband's death in 1921. In 1936, she was married to Linn Stoaks and they continued to live in Newburg until his death in 1938.

Mrs. Stoaks resided in Newburg until about seven years ago when she moved to Grinnell.