Edna (McKean) Baart (1884-1944)

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

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 6/28/2014 at 12:06:03

From Carroll Time Herald May 4, 1944

Mrs. Eda Baart Funeral Rites To Be Saturday

Funeral services are to be held at 4:30 Saturday afternoon at the Huffman Funeral Home for Mrs. Eda Baart, of 815 North Clark street, who passed away yesterday noon. The Rev. Robert Fuller of Atlantic, minister of the Seventh Day Adventist Church will officiate.

The body will be taken to Nevada, where services will be held at the Morfoot Funeral Home Sunday afternoon. Burial will be in the Nevada cemetery.

Mrs. Baart, a native of Pennsylvania, came to Iowa at the age of 20 and had spent most of her adult life in the 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 Leela McKean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Hall McKean, in Pennsylvania Jan. 28, 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.

Mrs. 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, Calif.; three grandchildren; her mother, Mrs. Anna Wood, Nevada, Ia.; one sister, Mrs. A. G. Wadsworth, Titusville, Pa., and one brother, Stephen H. McKean, Atlanta, Ga.

Mrs. Madsen, who is a registered nurse, arrived here Monday night and assisted in her mother's care. Mr. and Mrs. Mentzer and baby daughter, Lorraine, came last night. Mrs. Baart's mother is also expected to arrive for the services.

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

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