Bessie J. (Edmunds) NORDSTROM

NORDSTROM, EDMUNDS, SHUEY, MAAKSTEAD, CLARK, CARR

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 6/2/2009 at 10:18:41

Mrs Fred Edmunds and Mrs. Orval Nordstrom

August 12, 1949
Double Funeral Here Saturday

The double funeral services for a Boone mother and daughter will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in the First Methodist church here, with Rev. E. D. Rapp of the Primitive Methodist church in charge. Mrs. Fred Edmunds, 76, died Wednesday evening at her home after a long illness, her death coming shortly after that of her daughter, Mrs. Orval Nordstrom, 43, who passed away in Broadlawns hospital in Des Moines. Both were members of the Primitive Methodist Church here, but because it was thought the church would not accommodate the crowd for a double service, it was decided to hold the rites in the First Methodist church.

August 10, 1949

Mrs. Orval Nordstrom, 327 Benton street, who has been a patient at Broadlawns hospital suffering with incethalitis, a central nerve disorder, died there about 1 p.m. today. She is survived by her husband and two sons, John and Robert of Boone; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Edmunds of Boone; two brothers, Roy Edmunds of Clinton and Harry Edmunds of Des Moines, and five sisters, Mrs. Frank Shuey, Mrs. Wilbur Maakstead, Mrs. Oral Clark and Mrs. Orland Nordstrom, all of Boone, and Mrs. Verne Carr of Ames. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.