Ellen Jane (Smith/Smithers) Berry (ca. 1851-1939)

SMITH, SMITHERS, SHANDELMEIER, SHANDLEMEIER, EPPERLY

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 11/5/2018 at 12:01:16

From Nevada Evening Journal February 27, 1939 (page 1)

Mrs. Ellen Berry Died Sunday; Funeral Tuesday

Mrs. Ellen Berry, 88, who had lived the most of her life in Story county, died Sunday afternoon at 5:30 at the Story County Home where she had been confined since July 26, 1925 having been transferred there from the state hospital for the insane at Clarinda, where she had been committed for treatment November 21, 1922.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock at the Morfoot Funeral home and burial will be in the Nevada cemetery.

She was the widow of the late Isaac Berry who died in 1927. Her marriage to Mr. Berry was her second and she leaves at this time two sons and one daughter in Nevada, they being Fred Shandlemier, generally known as Fred Berry, Isaac Berry and Mrs. Susie Epperly.