Margaretta May "May" (Ransom) Welty (1880-1930)

RANSOM, WELTY, MACLEAN, DUNTY

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:12

From Nevada Evening Journal January 8, 1930 (page 4)

WELTY FUNERAL THIS AFTERNOON

NEVADA WOMAN INTERRED IN COLO CEMETERY AFTER FUNERAL HERE

Funeral services for Mrs. Guy Welty who died at her home on Tenth street Monday evening at about 9 o'clock were held at Central Presbyterian church at 2:30 today.

The services was in charge of Dr. R. M. Shipman of Boone, former pastor of the Nevada Methodist church and Dr. W. O. Benthin of the Central Presbyterian church.

Six of the seven brothers of the deceased acted as pallbearers. Following the services at the church the funeral party accompanied the body to Colo when interment was in the family lot in the Colo cemetery.

May Ransom Welty was born November 21, 1880, near Lanark, Carroll county, Illinois, and came to Iowa with her parents in the fall of 1884. They located on a farm near Blairstown, Iowa, where she grew to young womanhood. She was married D. G. Welty on December 24, 1900, at Waterloo, Iowa. They locate first at Collins, where they lived for about two years when they moved to Colo, and came to Nevada in February, 1903.

She leaves a loving husband, three children, Mrs. Helen Schlegel of Chicago, Mrs. Madge MacLean of Nevada and Wayne, a student at Iowa State College and one grandson, John D. MacLean. She also leaves one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Dunty of Fullerson, Md. and seven brothers, Samuel C. of Marietta, Minn, Wm. W. of St. James, Minn., James H. of Cut Bank, Mont., Charles F. of Clear Lake, Iowa, George Edward of Fulton, Ill., Nathan C. of Blairstown, Iowa, Harry E. of Colo, and one half-sister Mrs. Ruth Hansen of Cedar Rapids. One sister Mabel and one brother, Harley preceded her in death.

Mrs. Welty has been ill for several years and had tried many things to improve her health. She spent some time in Montana and Colorado, a few months at the sanitarium at Oakdale, Iowa and some time in California.

She was always interested in Sunday School and church work and became a member of the Presbyterian church and Blairstown and later of Central Presbyterian at Nevada. She was a member of the local chapter of Daughters of American Revolution and Order of Eastern Star of which latter she was past Worthy Matron. A true and loving wife, a devoted Mother and a kind friend to all who knew her.