Lillie Weaver Barto, 1870-1953

BARTO, WEAVER

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Date: 10/13/2018 at 12:28:02

Lillie Weaver Barto, 1870-1953

The Moville Record

Pioneer Moville Woman Laid To Rest Wednesday

Word reached Moville Sunday of the death about 10 that morning, of Mrs. Lillie Barto, 83, who had been in failing health or many months. She passed away in a Sioux City Nursing Home, where she had been cared for during the past three weeks, following a long stay in the hospital there. She had suffered a stroke on Friday evening.

Funeral services were held in the Federated Church on Wednesday afternoon, with Rev. Carl Riggs of the E.U.B. Church, officiating, in the absence of the pastor. Music was a duet composed of Mrs. Wayne Luse and Mrs. Wm. Green, who sang ‘Crossing the Bar;, and ‘Sweet Hour of Prayer’. Mrs. R.E. Richards was at the organ. Members of Arlington Chapter, O.E.S., and of the Rebekah Lodge attended the services together. Interment was in Arlington cemetery, under the direction of the McCulloch Funeral Home. Pallbearers were Harry Stephenson, F.H. Rebelsky, Jack Horton, Sr., Kermit Oliver, Francis Coughlin and H.F. Felhaber.

Lillie Weaver was born at Dakota, Ill., September 9, 1870, the daughter of Levi and Christinna Weaver. At an early age she moved with her parents to Montgomery County, near Red Oak, Iowa.

On January 26, 1888 she was united in marriage at Morton’s Mill, Ia., to Daniel E. Barto. The next fourteen years they resided at Biddick, Ia., where together they operated a small store and blacksmith shop, and where her husband was also post master.

In 1902 Mr. and Mrs. Barto moved to Moville, where they spent the remainder of their lives. About three years after coming to Moville they bought an interest in the Hall Hardware store, and in 1915 they bought the remaining interest in the store, which they operated together until the death of Mr. Barto on May 29, 1944. Following his death Mrs. Barto continued to operate the store until she retired in 1950. Since that time her health had been rather delicate.

In January of the year that Mr. Barto died, the Bartos celebrated their fifty-sixth wedding anniversary. Mrs. Barto was a member of the Congregational Church. She was a charter member and a Past Matron of the Arlington Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, and a member of Belvidere Rebekah Lodge of Moville.

Survivors are one niece, Mrs. Ray Goltry and family, and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Lena L. Weaver, all of Red Oak, as well as a few more distant relatives and a host of friends.