Odessa (Beckley) Riddlesbarger (1888-1974)

RIDDLESBARGER, BECKLEY, BALL, BAUM, PEIRCE, PIERCE, EMDE

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 2/1/2014 at 14:41:27

From Nevada Evening Journal May 1974

ODESSA RIDDLESBARGER

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at the United Methodist Church with Rev. Marvin Hulse officiating for Mrs. Odessa Riddlesbarger, 1047 G Place, Nevada, who died Wednesday evening at the Story County Hospital where she had been for the past 1 1/2 months. She was 85.

Born June 30, 1888 in Cambridge, she was the daughter of David and Lena Beckley and had been a resident of Story County her entire life time. She was a member of United Methodist Church in Nevada.

She is survived by one brother, Roy Beckley of Ladysmith, Wisconsin; five sisters, Mrs. Lyda Ball of Nevada, Mrs. Don Baum of Des Moines, Mrs. Roy Peirce of Winter Park, Florida, Mrs. Alice Emde of St. Louis, Missouri and Miss Mabel Beckley of Barrington, Illinois.

She was preceded in death by her parents, one sister, and her husband, Lee who died in 1942.

Burial will be in the Nevada Cemetery.