Erma (Robbins) RAMSEY

RAMSEY, TEEL, LUICK, BECKWITH

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/22/2008 at 10:17:10

Wright County Monitor
16 January 1958

Belmond - Belmond friends last week received the sad news of the death of Mrs. Erma Ramsey, 79, of Missoula, Mont., where she had made her home since 1947, after the death of her husband, the late Wallace Ramsey, who was once co-publisher and co-owner of the Independent. Friends of Mrs. Ramsey were informed of her death by her daughter, Mrs. Ruth Teel with whom she had made her home. The funeral was held there on Wednesday of last week. The body was to be cremated and the ashes will be interred in Belmond cemetery this spring, accompanied here by Mrs. Teel and son, Nicky.

Mrs. Ramsey was born near Goodell, June 18, 1878, the daughter of John and Nancy Robbins. On Sept. 10, 1902 she was married to Wallace R. Ramsey, who two years earlier with his brother, Walter C. Ramsey, had purchased the Iowa Valley Press, a local newspaper of that day. Mrs. Ramsey had been afflicted with a heart ailment that was not regarded as immediately serious, and was recently in fairly good health. She was planning one of her trips to Belmond in the spring. While enjoying a walk on that Saturday afternoon, death came to her very suddenly.

The Ramseys were parents of three children, a son and daughter died in infancy. The only surviving child is Mrs. Teel. Mr. Ramsey died in April 1946 and a sister, Mrs. Chester (Vida) Luick, died in August 1952 from injuries suffered in an auto accident. An older sister, Mrs. Della Beckwith, died many years ago in Seattle, Wash. During her 10 years in Missoula Mrs. Ramsey made many friends and was active in the Methodist church there, as here in former years, and will be greatly missed by all who knew her and were privileged to be counted as her friends.