Isaac Berry (1835-1927)

BERRY, ELZY, STILLMAN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 11/5/2018 at 00:07:02

From Nevada Evening Journal and The Nevada Representative November 4, 1927 (page 1)

AGED RESIDENT BURIED TODAY

ISAAC BERRY, NEARLY 93 YEARS OF AGE, DIED HERE ON WEDNESDAY

Isaac Berry, 92, for over a third of a century a resident of Story county, died Wednesday afternoon at the home of his son Isaac Berry, Jr., 536 Ninth street, and the funeral services were held this afternoon at 2:30 from the Morfoot Funeral home, after which the body was interred in the Nevada cemetery. Mr. Berry, suffering from senility as well as from the effects of other complications, had been failing for some time. His age was 92 years, 8 months and 27 days.

Mr. Berry was born at Foltner, Illinois, and lived there for many years. He came out to Iowa about 33 years ago and for some time was located on a farm near Colo, after which the family moved to Nevada and located in a home corner Fourth and Avenue F, where they lived for many years, or until the home was broken up.

A few years ago his wife, Ellen Berry, became mentally unbalanced and was sent away for treatment. She is now in the Story county infirmary.

He leaves besides his wife, two sons and two daughters. The sons Fred and Isaac Jr., of this city, and the daughters are Mrs. Rachel Elzy who lived in Nebraska, and Mrs. Susie Stillman of near Des Moines.

Mr. Berry was an industrious, honest man, faithful to all trusts and had many friends among the people of the city for whom he had worked and gained an acquaintance. Truck gardening, hunting and trapping took up most of his time and during the days that he was physically fit, through that means he managed to care for his family.

Members of the family will receive the sympathy of the community in their hour of bereavement.