CRABTREE, Bertha (1896-1961)

CRABTREE

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes (email)
Date: 7/13/2008 at 11:21:48

The Des Moines Sunday Register; March 26, 1961

BERTHA CRABTREE FUNERAL TUESDAY

Services for Mrs. Bertha Crabtree, 64, of 3934 E. Forty-fourth st., will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Sunshine Open Bible Church. Graveside services will be at 3:30 p.m. at Maple Grove Cemetery.

Mrs. Crabtaree died Friday of a heart attack at her home. She was born in Tama and had lived in Des Moines for 20 years. She was a member of Sunshine Open Bible Church.

Survivors include her husband Clyde; three sons, Howard Norris of Des Moines, Alfred Norris of Pasadena, Cal., and Lee Clyde Crabtree of Des Moines; two daughters, Mrs. Floyd Shuler of Dysart and Mrs. Orla Flowers of Forestville, Cal.; two sisters, Mrs. Clifford Bidwell of Sand Point, Idaho, and Mrs. Alma Beadle of Tama; 21 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren; four step-daughters, Mrs. Harold Redman of Des Moines, Mrs. Della Flowers and Mrs. Esther Crawford of Tama and Mrs. Maxine Varner of Mankato, Minn., and a step-son, Edgar Crabtree of Tama.