Mrs. Nell Kuttruff

KUTTRUFF, STEDMAN, MEADOWS, BUSSE, WILSON, GREGORY, HITCHCOCK

Posted By: Jean Wenke, volunteer
Date: 3/25/2009 at 15:07:02

Nell Stedman, daughter of William Asa and Amy Smith Stedman was born in Bonaparte, Iowa, July 7, 1880 and passed from this life at Graham hospital, Keokuk, Sunday night, Feb. 6, 1949, at the age of 68 years and seven months.

Nell grew to womanhood in Bonaparte, attended the public school and was for a time an employee of Meek Bros. Clothing factory. Later she went to Chicago and established a dressmaking shop in Highland Park, Ill., which she operated for eighteen years.

December 21, 1912, she was united in marriage with Charles Knuttruff of Gilman, Ill. In June of 1945 she retired from her work in Highland Park and she and her husband moved to Bonaparte, to the property in the east part of town which they had recently purchased. She enjoyed this new time, spending much time with her flowers during the summer and in beautifying the place. She was a charter member of the Sunshine Society and when she returned to her home town resumed her activities in that society, and in the other departments of the Presbyterian church with which she has always been affliated, being at the time of her death the treasurer of the Ladies Aid. She was also a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and of the Community Club. Her helpfulness in all these organizations will be greatly missed.

Of her immediate family she leaves to mourn her husband, Charles Kuttruff, two sisters, Mrs. Cora Meadows of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Jennie Busse of Kahoka, Mo.; an aunt, Miss Hattie Stedman of Los Angeles, Calif.

Other m4embers of her family who were very near to her and helpful during her failing health were her nieces and nephews, Mrs. Florence Wilson and Mirs. Hazel Gregory of Kahoka, Mo., Miss Helen Busse of Twin Falls, Idaho, Miss Amy Busse of Springfield, Ill., Asa Busse of Mayfield, Ky., and Fred Busse of Los Angeles, Calif. Also the cousins, Mrs. Edna ... of Peoria, Ill., Wm. Stedman of Chillicothe, Ill. And Mrs. Hitchcock of Battle Creek, Mich.

Together with the relatives and some friends who will regret her going are her patrons and friends of Highland Park, Ill., who for many years depended on her artistic ability in her dress shop there.

Funeral services are 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 9 in the Presbyterian church, Bonaparte, with the pastor, Rev. C.F. McMican in charge. Interment in Bonaparte Cemetery.

From Dorothy Watson's scrapbook, Bonaparte, Iowa Library