Woodman, Rosevelle (Mrs. Wentworth O.), 1908-1933

WOODMAN, MILLER, RAY

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Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:38

From the Alton Democrat, July 28, 1933:

FATALLY HURT IN COLLISION
Wife of Hull H. School Coach Dies; On Way to World Fair

Mrs. W. O. Woodman, aged 24, wife of the Hull high school athletic coach, died Thursday last of injuries received when the car driven by her husband collided with one driven by Mrs. F. W. Schaeffer of Plainfield, two miles north of the latter place, on last Wednesday afternoon.

Mr. Woodman has been coach and manual training instructor at Hull for one year, coming to Sioux county from Plymouth, Iowa. All of Mrs. Woodman’s relatives live at Ames, while Mr. Woodman’s home is at Archer. They were en route to the Century of Progress exposition at Chicago when the car driven by Mrs. Schaeffer came onto the highway from a side road. Mr. Woodman and Mrs. Schaeffer were only slightly injured, but Mrs. Woodman suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and a fractured collar bone. The Woodman car struck the Schaeffer car on the left front wheel and overturned twice before going into the ditch. Mrs. Woodman was taken to the Waverly hospital and died at 2 a.m. Thursday morning.

Funeral services were held at the Methodist church at Ames on Saturday, July 22. Those from Hull who attended the services included: Mr. and Mrs. August Oelrich, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Meylink, Rev. and Mrs. R. A. Jager, Mrs. John Loele, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Dykstra and daughters, Angelyn and Helen; Dr. and Mrs. A. N. Overbaugh, L. R. Kooiker, and Mr. and Mrs. B. Wolfswinkel, Mrs. H. Westra, Mrs. H. Hymans and Mrs. F. Lutjens.

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From the Sioux County Index (Hull), July 28, 1933:

Mrs. W. O. Woodman Was Fatally Injured in Accident

Friends here were pained to learn of the death of Mrs. W. O. Woodman of this place at a hospital in Waverly, Iowa, last week Thursday, following an automobile accident of the evening before.

Mr. and Mrs. Woodman left Hull Wednesday morning and were headed for the World’s Fair at Chicago, as per our last issue. They were going to pick up a brother and his wife at Vinton, Iowa, and were as far as Fairfield, Iowa, a few miles north of Waverly, when they were forced off the road by a car coming onto the highway from a side road. Mr. Woodman was driving and the car made several complete turn-overs before stopping. Mrs. Woodman was thrown clear of the car and had her skull crushed and her collar bone broken. She died at a hospital in Waverly, where she was taken following the accident. Mr. Woodman was only slightly injured.

Mrs. Woodman, whose maiden name was Rosevelle Miller, was married to Mr. Woodman June 21st, 1930, and besides the husband, is survived by three brothers, Ray of Sutherland, Howard of Vinton, and Clinton of State Center, Iowa; and five sisters, Ruth and Dora of Ames, Mrs. Edith Christensen of Chicago, Mrs. Margaret Knopp of Ames and Lucille, who lives in Texas.

The funeral was held at Ames, Saturday, from the home, and from the First M. E. Church, of which she had been a member since childhood. The bereaved husband and family have the sincere sympathy of all the Hull friends. [Followed by a list of attendees from Hull similar to the above.]

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From an unidentified newspaper, posted on her FindaGrave.com page:

Sister of C. C. Miller Fatally Hurt in Wreck
Died in Hospital at Waverly Ten Hours After Accident

Mrs. Rosevelle Woodman, of Hull, was fatally injured in an automobile accident last Wednesday afternoon two miles north of Plainfield, while enroute with her husband to attend the Century of progress at Chicago. Mrs. Woodman was a sister of C. C. Miller of this city.

The Woodman car was struck broadside and rolled over into a ditch by a car driven by Mrs. F. W. Schaeffer of Plainfield which came onto Highway 15 from a side road. Mrs. Woodman suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and a fractured collar bone. She was taken from the wreckage in an unconscious condition and removed to a Waverly hospital where she died ten hours later without regaining consciousness. Mr. Woodman suffered numerous cuts and bruises. A coroner’s jury Thursday afternoon held that the accident was unavoidable and exonerated both drivers.

Mrs. Woodman was born at Sutherland, Iowa, Dec. 17, 1907. With her family she moved to Ames about fourteen years ago and graduated from the Ames high school in 1927. Three years ago she was married to Mr. W. O. Woodman in Des Moines, following his graduation from Iowa State College. They resided at Plymouth for two years and moved to Hull a year ago, where Mr. Woodman was a teacher of agriculture in the schools.

Besides her husband Mrs. Woodman is survived by eight brothers and sisters, Miss Ruth Miller, Miss Dora Miller, Mrs. C. H. Leeds and Mrs. D. D. Knapp, all of Ames; Mrs. W. J. Christensen, Chicago; Ray Miller, Sutherland; C. C. Miller, State Center; and Howard Miller, Vinton.

The funeral services were held at the First Methodist Church at Ames with Rev. Walter A. Morgan in charge. Burial was in the Ames cemetery.

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A brief article in the Sioux Center News, July 20, 1933, adds her husband’s full name, Wentworth Woodman, and says they were traveling with her sister and brother-in-law.

FindaGrave.com has Rosevelle Miller Woodman, born 1908, died 1933 (with a photo of her headstone), buried in Ames Municipal Cemetery.

Her death certificate gives her name as Mrs. Idalia Woodman; born Dec. 17, 1908 in Iowa; parents S[illegible] F. Miller and Idalia Ray; husband Wentworth Woodman; died in Mercy Hospital, Waverly, Iowa, at 2:15 a.m. July 20, 1933; cause, automobile accident, cerebral hemorrhage, broken collarbone.

The Iowa births and Christenings Index on Ancestry.com has her as Idalie Miller, born 17 Dec 1908 in Liberty, O’Brien County, parents Sumner F. Miller and Idaline Nettie Ray.

Her marriage record shows groom Wentworth O. Woodman, age 24, born in and resident of Archer, Iowa, parents A. L. Woodman and Christine Anderson, occupation teaching; bride I. Rosevelle Miller, age 22, born in Sutherland, Iowa, parents S. S. Miller and Idalia Roy, resident of Ames; married 21 June 1930.

Her name is given in the 1910 and 1920 U.S. censuses as Rosevelle I. Miller.

(Her husband returned to teach and coach at Hull High School that fall, but family tree information on Ancestry.com shows that by 1935 he was living in rural Chippewa County, Minnesota, and in 1937 he married Tora C. Solum in Houston County, Minn. He died in Olmsted County, Minn. [probably Rochester] in February 1974.)