Pearl (Hormel) Pizer Dolph (1888-1969)

HORMEL, PIZER, DOLPH, TRIMBLE, ERSLAND, SYDNESS, OGLE, RENCH, KALSEM, PRICE, BROWN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Nevada Journal April 14, 1969 (page 1)

Mrs. Pearl Dolph dies here Saturday

A former Huxley and Cambridge resident, Mrs. Pearl Dolph, 80, died at 4:05 p.m. Sunday in the Story County Hospital.

Born in Kearney, Nebraska, Aug. 26, 1888, Mrs. Dolph came with her parents by covered wagon to Story County and lived the rest of her life here.

She is survived by three sons, six daughter, two sisters, a brother, 72 grandchildren and great-grandchildren plus four children by a previous marriage.

Sons include Lester of Bell, Calif., Kenneth of Des Moines and Donald of Utah.

Daughters are Mrs. Lenora Trimble of Sheldahl, Mrs. Ila Ersland and Mrs. Mary Sydness of Huxley; Mrs. Betty Ogle of Indianola; Mrs Juanita Rench of Cambridge and Mrs. Maxine Kalsem of Des Moines.

The four other children are Vern and Glen Pizer of Chicago, Paul of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Mrs. Maude Dolph of Des Moines.

Alva Hormel of Missouri is a surviving brother, while Vinnie Price of Ames and Mrs. Maude Brown of California are surviving sisters.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at Cooper Funeral Home in Maxwell, with burial to be in the Iowa Center Cemetery.