Beryl Gray (Morse) WHITTLESEY

MORSE, WHITTLESEY, DYVIG, SAYRES, STRAND

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/7/2014 at 15:03:11

May 12, 1905 ---- February 26, 1947

Services Held for Sanborn Woman

Mrs. M. Whittlesey, of Sanborn, passed away suddenly on Wednesday, February 26, after a heart attack. Funeral services were conducted at the Methodist Church in Sanborn on Friday afternoon with the Rev. H. Mil Hall officiating. The body was taken to Humboldt Friday afternoon and burial was made in the Union Cemetery located there on Saturday morning. Out of town relatives and friends attending the service were Perry Morse, Gilmore City; Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Morse, Bode; Mrs. Edward Dyvig, Humboldt; Mrs. Lester Whittlesey, Gilmore City; Mr. and Mrs. Elton Sayres, Kansas City; Mrs. William Morse, Des Moines; Howard and Raymond Morse; Will Strand and son, Lawrence, Humboldt; and Miss Florence Whittlesey, of Gilmore City.

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Beryl Gray Morse Whittlesey was born, the fifth child of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Morse, on May 12, 1905, near Pioneer, Iowa. She lived on the farm during her childhood days and attended the country school nearby until 1916 when she stayed with an older sister and had one year's schooling in Ft. Dodge, Iowa. Then her family moved to Humboldt, Iowa, where she finished her high school work with the class of 1924. The next few weeks she taught school in Humboldt county and also attended several terms of teacher's training at Iowa State Teacher's college, Cedar Falls, Iowa. On Jun 25, 1932, she married Max A. Whittlesey, of Gilmore City, Iowa, after which they began farming in that community, where Mrs. Whittlesey was a member of the Methodist church. Later they lived near Goldfield, Iowa, and just previous to coming to Sanborn in 1944, lived two years in Ames. Beryl was always the center of life and interest among her good and true friends. She loved her school children, and most outstanding was her deep interest and devotion to the welfare of her family, in spite of her poor health the last several years. Beryl's passing is greatly mourned by her husband, Max, daughter Marilyn, aged thirteen, Gerald, eleven, and daughter, Meredith, seven; her mother, Mrs. Wm. Morse, three brothers and three sisters.

O'Brien County Bell - Primghar, Iowa
March 5, 1947