Main, Wilma Pearce 1910-1980

MAIN, PEARCE, HARGRAVES, CORDES, MORRISON, FRANK, KELLER

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 10/21/2017 at 11:51:30

The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register
Aug. 4, 1980

WILMA MAIN DIES IN D.M.

Wilma Pearce Main, 70, of Kimberling, City, Mo., died Thursday at their home.

Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. today at the Westover Funeral Home in Des Moines. Graveside services will be held at 3 p.m. at the Westfield Cemetery south of Grinnell.

The daughter of Frank and Ethel Hargraves Pearce, she was born in Grinnell in 1910. She attended rural school here and later graduated from Grinnell High School.

She was married to Ray I. Main, and following her marriage lived in Des Moines. She was employed at the Younkers Department Store in the business office for over 25 years.

Survivors include her husband; two children, Mrs. Meredith Cordes of Lakeland, Fla., and William R. Main of Des Moines; five grandchildren; and her brothers and sisters, William E. Pearce of Jefferson, Mathilda Morrison, Myrtle Frank and George Pearce, all of California, Martin Pearce of Grinnell, Ethel M. Morrison of North Dakota and Gladys Keller of Sigourney.