Elizabeth Rebecca (Emery) Morfoot (1863-1933)

EMERY, MORFOOT

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 6/20/2021 at 20:24:28

From Nevada Evening Journal June 2, 1933 (page 3)

MORFOOT FUNERAL HELD TUESDAY

BELOVED WOMAN LAID TO REST IN PERRY CEMETERY AFTER SERVICES HERE

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon for Mrs. C. E. Morfoot, 70, who died very suddenly from a heart attack at her home 724 J avenue, at an early hour Tuesday morning, May 30.

The funeral was held at the Morfoot Funeral home, where she had her home for many years, until about four years ago, when the elder Morfoots occupied the residence at 724 J avenue, next door west of the longtime residence.

Her pastor, Rev. J. O. Simon of Memorial Lutheran church was in charge of services and the songs were by voices of the same congregation. The floral offerings were very beautiful and bore testimony to the very high esteem in which the deceased was held among the people of the community in which she has lived for a quarter of a century.

Following the service here, the body was taken to Perry, where interment was in the family lot by the side of her son Walter who had died in infancy and her mother who passed away a few years ago.

Mrs. Morfoot, whose maiden name was Elizabeth R. Emery, was born between Dixon and Sterling, Illinois, May 23, 1863 and had reached the age of 70 years and one week, when she was so suddenly summoned by the Messenger of Death.

The father passed away when she was about ten years of age. The family moved to Perry in 1883. Three years later she was united in marriage to Charles E. Morfoot, at Boone, Iowa, and two sons were born to them. One son Walter died when 13 months old and second son Clarence E. Morfoot, with the husband and father survives her. There were two brothers but one of them W. J. Every preceded her in death, while the other -. C. Emery lived at Coe Harbor, N. D.

She became affiliated with the Lutheran church at Prairieville, Illinois, in her girlhood days and her faith and fellowship had continued in that denomination throughout her life.

While she was faithful in her church connections, her principle interests were in the home and there she was found almost constantly, her home and married life being an ideal one.

Mrs. Morfoot was a woman of very outstanding character and was highly respected in the circle of friends that she had acquired during the twenty-five hears that she had lived in Nevada.

Here her home was; here were her husband, son and close friends and here her influence had long been felt.