Mary Etta "Etta" (Rinehart) Carver (1877-1934)

RINEHART, CARVER, SCHOONOVER, FLEMING, COUGHENOUR, SMITH

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 3/13/2021 at 11:11:00

From Nevada Evening Journal May 16, 1934 (page 3)

Funeral Services for Well Known Woman

Special to the Journal.
Colo, May 16--Funeral services were held at the Methodist Episcopal church here Sunday afternoon for Mrs. Etta Carver, whose death occurred here Friday afternoon.

The service was in charge of her pastor Rev. Schuermann and the songs used were those selected by the woman before her death. They were "Rose of Sharon", "Beautiful Land", and "Goodnight and Goodmorning." The singers were Mrs. Nellie Lounsberry, Mrs. Mary Wilson, Chas. Wilson and John Lounsberry.

The pallbearers were Gus Hall, Geo. Rae, Harry Ransom, Alva Gearhart, Chas. Reed and Chas. Yeager.

The members of the O. E. S. held a beautiful service at the cemetery.

The floral offerings were many and were taken care of by Mrs. Pauline Olson, Mrs. Myra Evans and Mrs. Hattie Gearhart.

Relatives from a distance were Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Cozzens, daughter Doris and son Charles, Mrs. E. B. Carver of Clinton, Iowa, Mrs. W. A. McKibben of Nevada, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Lynch, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Stover and Willard Montgomery all of Marshalltown, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Rinehart of Ames, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Rinehart and Adelaid of Hollandale, Minnesota, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Stanton, Ed Carver of Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Coughenour, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Coughenour and Ronald, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd McIntyre, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Boster all of Maxwell and Miss Pauline Martin of Marshalltown.

Mary Etta Rinehart, daughter of Simon P. and Elizabeth Rinehart, was born in the Dalton neighborhood, August 7, 1877 and died at her home in Colo, Iowa, May 10, 1934 at the age of 56 years, 9 months and 3 days. She was united in marriage to Roy Francis Carver, August 29, 1900, and they made their home at Colo most of their married life. They lived in Jewell and Stanhope for a few years in the early part of their married life.

To this union were born two children, Zola Zoo and LeRoy Vance, the latter died in infancy. She is survived by her husband, one daughter Zola of Colo, three sisters, Mrs. E. D. Schoonover and Mrs. C. F. Fleming of Colo, Mrs. A. F. Coughenour of Maxwell and one brother Sherman D. Rinehart of Colo. Besides these there are many friends and other relatives.

Those preceding her in death are her parents, one child and two sisters, Mrs. Merelia J. Smith and Mrs. Emma M. Coughenour and one brother Marion Ellsworth.

She was a member of the Isabel Chapter 271 of the O. E. S. Lodge of Colo. She was a charter member of the B. F. T. club of the Colo community. As a young girl she accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior and united with the Dalton United Brethren church. Later she transferred her membership to the Methodist Episcopal Church of Colo to which she remained faithful to the end.

Mrs. Carver was a woman very much interested in her home and the interests that centered there. Her love for the beautiful is revealed in her interest in music and in flowers. To these she devoted much of her leisure time.

Her religious faith brought to her much comfort and strength during her last weeks of illness and suffering. Christ was a very present help in time of her greatest need.