Isadora “Dora” (Pierce) Roberts (1861-1939)

PIERCE, ROBERTS, SMALLDRIDGE, PURCELL

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 12/21/2021 at 11:58:16

From Nevada Evening Journal January 9, 1939 (page 1)

Iowa Falls Woman Died at Home of Daughter in Nevada

Mrs. Dora Roberts, 78, of Iowa Falls, died Saturday evening at 6:30 at the home of her daughter Mrs. G. C. Smalldridge in Nevada from a stroke of apoplexy which she suffered following a long siege of creeping paralysis. She had been very seriously ill since the first of November.

Mrs. Roberts, a native of Williamsburg, Indiana, where she was born January 4th, 1861, came out to Iowa Falls when a girl of ten years and ther she was married to Edward James Robert and her home had been in or near Iowa Falls since.

Funeral service will be held this afternoon at 2:00 at the Wood's Funeral home at Iowa Falls, with Rev. Cushman of the Iowa Falls Congregational church in charge. Burial will be in the Iowa Falls cemetery where the husband was buried ten years ago.

She leaves two daughters, Mrs. G. C. Smalldridge at whose home where she died and Mrs. Alice Purcell of Oklahoma City, who had been here since Christmas. Two other children have passed away

Among other relatives here were Mrs. Arthur Westbury of Iowa Falls, Mrs. Sheila Hagman of Chicago, Robert Thomas of Buffalo, N. Y., who was here last week and L---- Thomas of Waterloo [the remainder is unreadable.]