Mrs. C. E. Fish (1896-1936)

FISH, MCINTOSH, BRADKE, MESMITH, PIERCE

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 4/25/2009 at 20:21:57

AMES DAILY TRIBUNE AND TIMES, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Friday, July 10, 1936.

Mrs. C. E. Fish Of Collins Dies At Des Moines

Special to the Ames Tribune.

COLLINS—Mrs. C. E. Fish, 39, prominent in this community, died Thursday afternoon at 4:15 in the Iowa Lutheran hospital in Des Moines. She had been ill for the past month and had been a patient for the past three weeks in the hospital

Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 11 o'clock from the home with the Rev, J. Frank Moore of Manchester in charge. Burial will be in the Evergreen cemetery.

Mrs. Fish was born Ruth McIntosh, at Manchester, Ia., Sept. 17, 1896. She was graduated from the Manchester high school. She is also a graduate of Iowa State college with the class of 1918 and affiliated with the Alpha Delta Phi sorority.

She taught in the Hazelton high school for a year after her graduation from college, and on July 15, 1919 was married to C. E. Fish of Collins, at Manchester.

Mr. and Mrs. Fish had made their home in Collins since their marriage with the exception of two years at Algona.

Surviving are her husband, three children, Margaret Jane, Ruth Ann and Charles Lester, two sisters, Mrs. Juliet Bradke of Edgewobd, Mrs. Gladys Mesmith of Kellogg and an aunt, Miss Julia Pierce of San Pedro, Cal, who came to Collins recently to make her home.

Mrs. Fish was active in church and club affairs during her residence in Collins. She is a member of the Methodist church and its church auxiliaries, of the Order of Eastern Star and the American Legion auxiliary. She was also affiliated with various civic organizations and social clubs.

For a number of years Mrs. Fish had served as correspondent in the Collins territory for the Tribune.