Jennie Clara (Shammo) Handsaker (1866-1935)

SHAMMO, HANDSAKER, COOK, BURRELL

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:11

From Nevada Evening Journal September 20, 1935 (page 1)

MRS. HANDSAKER DIED THURSDAY

WELL KNOWN MEMBER METHODIST CHURCH PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME

Mrs. W. H. Handsaker, 69, died at her country home just northwest of Nevada Thursday afternoon at 4:30 of a complication of heart and bronchial troubles from which she had been a sufferer for some time. She was able to be up and dressed the day before her death, but the end came peacefully yesterday evening.

The funeral services will probably be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at the Methodist Episcopal church, of which she was long an active member. The burial will be in the family lot in the Nevada cemetery.

A daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Shammo, to whom she was born 69 years ago on August 31, she came with the family to Story county and settled on the farm in Sherman township, when she was girl of ten.

She was married to William Handsaker February 4, 1891, at the home of her parents.

The family home was on a farm north of Fernald until 1908 when they moved onto a farm just northwest of Nevada. There they lived for six years, after which they moved into Nevada where they lived for fifteen years, returning to the farm five years ago.

She leaves besides her husband and one son, her grandchildren, two sisters and one brother. The sisters are Mrs. Jesse Cook of Nevada, and Mrs. Alice Burrell of Ogden, Utah and the brother Will Shammo of Hudson, Colo. The sister Mrs. Burrel had been here for three weeks assisting in the care of Mrs. Handsaker.