Adaline (Chipman) Brewster 1880-1969

BREWSTER, CHIPMAN, ROBERTS

Posted By: Karen DaPra (email)
Date: 10/2/2001 at 21:57:57

MRS. HARVEY BREWSTER

KEOSAUQUA--Mrs. Adaline Brewster, 89, died about 11:45 a.m. Tuesday at Van Buren County Memorial Hospital, where she had been a patient a short time.

Born Jan. 9, 1880, near Tennessee, Ill., she was the daughter of H. A. and Alice Roberts Chipman. She was married Feb. 22, 1900, to Harvey Brewster. He died May 18, 1942. They farmed near Keosauqua and later moved into Keosauqua. She was a member of the United Methodist Church, a 50-year member of Lynds Chapter of Order of Eastern Star, a charter member of the American Legion Auxiliary and active in the Royal Neighbors of America.

Survivors include several nephews.

The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Keosauqua United Methodist Church with the Rev. Hubert Phillips of Milton officiating. Burial will be in Center Chapel Cemetery, near Keosauqua. The body is at Catcott Funeral Home.

(Photocopy of this obit is located on page 280 of Obit Bk #1 1963-1974 found in the Van Buren County, IA Genealogical Society's collection at the Keosauqua Public Library in July 1999. Name of newspaper and date of obit not given, however handwritten on the obit is "Mch 1969".) ORIGINAL POST 30 Sep 1999.

Her birth & death dates also taken from her headstone at Center Chapel. I would like to correspond with anyone researching this family.