Elsie (Berns) Pritchard (1890-1974)

BERNS, PRITCHARD, BILLS, CAMERON, OHLWEILER, SCHMELLIK

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

From Nevada Evening Journal January 5, 1974 (page 1)

Services for area deaths

MRS. ROSCOE PRITCHARD

Mrs. Roscoe (Elsie) Pritchard, 83, of Nevada died Friday evening at the Story County Hospital where she had been a patient the past four days after suffering a stroke.

She was born April 8, 1890 in Des Moines of Fred and Mary Berns, and had lived in Story County for 50 years.

Funeral services are set for Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Memorial Lutheran Church with Pastor Harry Myklebust officiating. Burial will be in the Glendale Cemetery in Des Moines.

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Chester (Gloria) Bills of Nevada, three grandchildren, and Larry Cameron of Des Moines, who was raised in the home. Also, two sisters, Mrs. M.F. Ohlweiler of Nevada; and Mrs. Walter Schmellik of Colo. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband and a brother.

Friends may call at the Ryan Funeral Home on Sunday afternoon.