Lela (Dearth) Sanders 1902 - 1921

SANDERS, DEARTH, KLEIST

Posted By: Linda H. Meyers (email)
Date: 7/26/2008 at 19:25:22

YOUNG MOTHER IS CALLED HOME

Mrs. Lela Sanders, 19, Dies at Home of Sister South of Ames At An Early Hour Today.

Mrs. Lela Sanders, 19, died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Paul Kleist, five miles southeast of Ames, at 5:00 o'clock this morning, the result of complications setting in after child birth.
Mrs. Sanders is survived by her husband, one sister, Mrs. Kleist, and one brother, Mr. Dearth, of Minnesota who is here to be present at the funeral services, also her father, J. C. Dearth, living eight miles northeast of Ames.
Funeral services will be held at the Pleasant Grove church Thursday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock, Rev. Wissler, of Gilber, in charge. Interment will be made in the Pleasant Grove cemetery.

--from the Ames Daily Tribune 4/27/1921