Eda Leelna (McKean) Baart (1884-1944)

BAART, MCKEAN, MADSEN, MENTZER, RUGGLES, WOOD, WADSWORTH

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 12/28/2013 at 22:49:23

From Ames Milepost May 1944

MRS. EDA BAART

Mrs. Eda Baart, former resident of Nevada, died May 4 at Carroll and the body was returned to Nevada.

Mrs. Baart, who was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist denomination, lived at the corner of Eighth and J Avenue during her residence in Nevada.

The bocy was brought to Nevada where the services were held at the Morfoot Fueneral Home Sunday afternoon. Burial was in the Nevada cemetery.

Mrs. Baart, a native of Pennsylvania, came to Iowa the age of 20 and had spent most of her adult life in this state. She was active in gospel work and literature ministry in Iowa, and had taught church school in New York and Iowa.

She was born Eda Leelna McKean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David McKean, in Pennsylvania Jan. 26, 1884. In early girlhood she and her parents were baptized in the Seventh Day Adventist faith. Her father died when she was 15 years old.

Mr. Baart leaves four daughters: Mrs. David Madsen, Glen Lake, Minn.; Mrs. Harold Mentzer, Napa, Calif.; Mrs. Lee Ruggles, Denver, Colo.; and Marie Baart, San Gabriel, Cal.; three grandchildren; her mother, Mrs. Anna Wood, Nevada; one sister, Mrs. G. W. Wadsworth, Titusville, Pa.; and one brother, Stephen H. McKean, Atlanta, Ga.

Mrs. Madsen, who is a registered nurse, arrived in Carroll Monday night and assisted in her mother's care. Mr. and Mrs. Mentzer and baby daughter, Lorraine, came later.

Mrs. Baart had bee a cripple during the last 14 years of her life. She had resided at 815 North Clark street in Carroll the past five years.

Death came to Mrs. Baart at noon Friday at the St. Anthony Hospital, where she had been a patient for 13 days. She had been ill the past two months.