Ethel Marie (Wellemeyer) BACON

WELLEMEYER, BACON, GRIEWE, CARLSON, JACOBS, HANSON, MOHLER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/9/2010 at 13:10:20

Belmond Independent, Iowa
December 17, 2000

Ethel Marie Bacon, 93, formerly of Klemme, died Dec. 4, 2002 at Good Shepherd Hospital, Barrington, IL. Services were held Dec. 9 at the Klemme United Methodist Church with burial in Ell Township Cemetery. Ethel was born Dec. 7, 1908 in Klemme, the daughter of Arthur and Lydia Griewe Wellemeyer. She attended Iowa State Teachers College (UNI) for two years and taught school near Klemme, Titonka, Buffalo Center and Lake Mills. She married Donald LeRoy Bacon in 1935 in Klemme. They lived in Lake Mills, Thompson and Klemme. They farmed and for a time ran Wellemeyer Furniture.

Preceding her in death were her parents, husband, brother Andrew Wellemeyer, and sister Clarice Carlson. Survivors include her daughter JoAnn (Don) Jacobs of Palatine, IL, and son Charles (Donna) Bacon of Centennial CO; and sisters Ruth Hanson of Titonka and Nora (Dick) Mohler of Florida.