Alice Viretta (May) Lee Jarvill (1863-1946)

MAY, LEE, JARVILL, NELSON, LARSON, MILLER, MCDANIEL

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:11

From Nevada Evening Journal December 18, 1946 (page 3)

Last Rites for Mrs. Jarvill Held Thursday

Milford: Funeral rites for Alice Viretta Jarvill, age 83 years were held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Adams Chapel in Ames with Rev. Hal Riggs, pastor of the U. B. Church officiating. "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" were the songs sung.

Burial was made in Cambridge cemetery at Cambridge, Iowa beside the body of her first husband who passed away in January 1908.* The flowers were many and beautiful. Pall bearers were six grandsons, Earl and Virgil Lee, sons of John Lee and Keith Wayne, Mancel and Lavern Lee, sons of the late Homer Lee.

Alice Viretta May was born Sept. 13, 1863 at Cambridge, Iowa, the oldest of nine children which came to bless the home of John and Luama May. Mrs. Jarvill spent all her life in Story county.

On August 27, 1882 she was united in marriage to Robert Lee and to this union five children were born. Three of these preceded their mother in death. John Lee of Ames and Lillie Lee Nelson of Huron, South Dakota who survives and Lucy who died in 1935 and two sons Homer who passed away in 1940, the other son died in infancy. Then the husband Robert Lee passed away in January 1908.

In May 1909 she was married to Walter Jarvill, taking into her home three small step sons, twins Lloyd now in Neb., Floyd in Ill. and Merle in Sheldon, Iowa. Mrs. Jarvill also leaves to mourn her passing three sisters, Mary Larson and Sarah Miler both of Ames, Rachel McDaniel of Mason City, two brothers, Harve of Ames and John of Boise, Idaho, 15 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren.

The deceased became bedfast in August but at her request her 83rd birthday was celebrated at her home. At this time the daughter Lillie, from Dakota was here. Mrs. Nelson was unable to attend the funeral because of ill health.

In October Mrs. Jarvill was taken to the Mary Greeley hospital in Ames, where she departed from this life Dec. 9. She endured her suffering in a cheerful spirit and nothing pleased her more than to have her family call to see her. She was very fond of little children and she will be greatly missed by all. Alice Jarvill was a member of United Brethren church in Ames.

*SUBMITTER'S NOTE: Alice Viretta (May) Jarvill is buried in the Cambridge Cemetery as beside her first husband, Robert Lee, as Alice V. Lee.