Norma Ruth (Godden) WILDIN

GODDEN, WILDIN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/28/2007 at 14:06:37

Mrs. G.E. Wildin, Cresco, Is Victim of Heart Ailment

Young Mother Succumbs at Hospital Here Wednesday Morning; Is Survived By Husband, Two Children

Having suffered from a heart ailment the past four years, Mrs. George E. Wildin, of Cresco township, passed away at the Kossuth hospital here Wednesday morning at 6:45 o'clock. She was brought to the hospital on Sunday, July 11, [1943] but all medical treatment was of no avail and she gradually failed until death came yesterday. Funeral plans at this writing are mede for Friday afternoon from the presbyterian church here, with Rev. C.C. Richardson in charge and interment in Riverview cemetery.

Native of Burt

Deceased was born Norma Ruth Godden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Godden, at Burt, August 21, 1909. She was married at Clarion, Iowa, in 1925 to George E. Wildin. For a year they lived at Lyons, Iowa, and then they came back to Kossuth and located in Cresco township, in the Cresco church neighborhood, where they have lived ever since. To them were born a daughter, Margaret, and a son, James.

Survivors
Mrs. Wildin is survived by the husband, the two children, her father, J. J. Godden, and one brother, James Wayne Godden, now with the Seabees of the navy and located in the Pacific area. Her mother Mrs. J. J. Godden, preceded her in death last fall. The family is trying to contact James, thought he could not get here in time for the funeral. Mrs. James Godden, since her husband enlisted last January, has been helping in the Wildin household and is making her home there.

Unknown source, ca. July 1943