DeLASHMUTT, Elva: Died 1985
DELASHMUTT, HULL, ROBERTS
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Date: 3/24/2022 at 15:21:30
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1 Feb 1985 page 12 Col 5-6Services for Elva DeLashmutt
MT. PLEASANT - Elva DeLashmutt, 76, rural Mt. Pleasant, died at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday at Henry County Health Center.
Services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at Beatty Funeral Home in Mt. Pleasant with the Rev. Glen Richards officiating. A graveside service will be held at 2:30 p.m. at Cantril Cemetery, Cantril. Friends may call as they desire after 10 a.m. Sunday and the family will receive friends from 2 to 3 p.m. that day.
Mrs. DeLashmutt was born July 16, 1908 at Cantril, the daughter of Lawson and Etta Mae Hull Roberts. In 19 33, she married Robert DeLashmutt. A retired schoolteacher, she had taught for 39 years, first in the Douds, Libertyville and Keosauqua communities, and for the last 20 years at Davenport. She was a member of the Retired Teachers Association of Iowa and the National Teachers Association.
Surviving are a son, Robert L. Rural Mt. Pleasant; three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Source: "Scrapbook 1981 - 1985", Pg. 227,
Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, Van Buren Co., IA
Van Buren Obituaries maintained by Rich Lowe.
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