Delilah (Pearson) Scott (1870-1939)

PEARSON, SCOTT, KERNS, CRABB

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 12/31/2021 at 16:34:50

From Nevada Evening Journal March 16, 1939 (page 3)

Funeral Services Held Wednesday for Mrs. Scott

Special to the Journal:
Maxwell, March 16 -- Funeral services for Mrs. Delilah Scott were held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Church of Christ which was well filled by relatives, old time friends and neighbors.

The rites were in charge of her pastor, Rev. C. R. Neel who read from the 14th chapter of John by request followed by a prayer by the Rev. Judson T. Perkins of the Methodist church. A quartette composed of Mrs. Harold Link, Mrs. C. I. Kirk, Albert Green and Claire Olinger sang three numbers, "The Old Rugged Cross," "Home, Heavenly Home" and "Going Down the Valley."

The pallbearers were H. J. Norton, Joe Young, N. Jay Pearson, Ernest Pearson, Rollie Pearson, T. J. Morrison, Vern Randol and James Ward. The floral offerings were many and very beautiful.

Delilah Scott, born August 17th, 1870, in Peoria City, Ia., departed this life March 12, 1939. Only daughter of Joseph and Juliette Pearson, her father passed away when she was 9 years of age and her mother on December 11, 1925. She grew to womanhood north and east of Farrar. In early youth she united with the Methodist Protestant Buena Vista church that is now Farrar M. P. church. In the year of 1894 she transferred her membership to the Church of Christ at Maxwell to which she had always been a faithful member.

She was married to Marion Scott.

She had been an invalid confined to the home 8 1/2 years and to her bed 1 year. She always wore a bright smile and carried her cross so cheerful, always very patient. Always thinking of others and so happy, thinking of her daughters and brother, Dave.

She was a lovely mother and had the thought that her heavenly father would see her through all her troubles. She was very thoughtful of her brother, Dave, who had always so tenderly cared for her and her family. She leaves her two daughters, Gladys and Mildred and one brother, David Pearson, two aunts of Garwin, Dewey Kerns and sister, Mrs. Cora Crabb of Collins. Out of town friends, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Harlow and Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Miller of Nevada and Claude Baldwin of Mingo.

Burial was made in the family lot beside her father and mother in the Peoria cemetery.

Mrs. Lawretha Young and Mrs. Els Gibson and several cousins besides a host of friends. Relatives from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. Ned Jones of Marion, Mrs. Guy Gibson of Cedar Rapids, Mrs. Emma Welsh, Mrs. Jessie Leslie and daughter and husband of Des Moines; Mrs. Maggie Haines her daughter and Olin Irons.