Gertrude Elizabeth Kestle Barth 1882 - 1965

KESTLE, BARTH

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/14/2021 at 05:17:08

Sioux City Journal
7 August 1965

Mrs. William Barth, 82, rural Correctionville, died Friday at her residence. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Rock Branch Methodist Church. The Rev. Wesley Frank will officiate. Burial will be in Rock Branch Cemetery under direction of the Walter Funeral Home, Anthon.

Mrs. Barth, the former Gertrude Elizabeth Kestle, was born Sept. 15, 1882, at Shellsburg, Wis. She was married to William Barth Nov. 28, 1901, at LeMars, Iowa. He died in 1941.

She was a member of Rock Branch Methodist Church.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Elaine Thompson of rural Correctionville, with whom she lived, and Mrs. Leta Fay Johnson of Moville; three sons, Orville of Remsen, Iowa, Marall J. of Salix, and Allen E. of Hinton, Iowa; two sisters, Mrs. Bryan Crowell of Hayward, Wis., and Mrs. Lee Monson of' Minneapolis; 10 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.