Vera Backous ( - 1967)

BACKOUS, LESTER, WILSON

Posted By: Dennis and Gail Bell (email)
Date: 8/18/2005 at 13:00:35

BACKOUS, VERA (MRS. SAMUEL J. BACKOUS) (1903 -1967)

THE NEVADA JOURNAL, Nevada, Iowa, Thursday, May 7 1967. “Mrs. Backous died Sunday. Mrs. Vera Backous, 64, Maxwell, died early Sunday in Nevada. Mrs. Backous had worked for several years at Dillon’s Department store in Nevada. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday from Cooper Funeral Home, Maxwell, with Rev. Dale Ellsworth officiating. A later service has been planned from Salem Evangelical United Brethren Church, Dumont, with the Rev. Rudolph Trusheim, officiating. Burial will be in the Harlan Cemetery, Dumont. Survivors include her husband, Sam; three sons, Elgin Lester of Dumont, Donald Lester, Greene and Jay Lester, Minneapolis, Minn.; eight grandchildren; two great-grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Thelma Wilson, Hackensack, Minn.”