Carrie L. (Root) DRAVES

VAN VALKENBURGH, ROOT, DRAVES, ROTHER, KIBSGAARD, HAIN, MCLAUGHLIN, BARZ, BARTZ, LARUE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:51

August 15, 1889 ----- September 5, 1987

Carrie L. Draves, 98, a former Dows resident, died at the Belmond Care Center on Saturday morning, September 5. Funeral services were held from First Lutheran Church in Dows on Monday afternoon at 1:30. Rev. Roger Dykstra officiated and burial was in Vernon Township Cemetery southwest of Dows. The Willim Funeral Home of Clarion was in charge of the arrangements. Special music at the service was by Curtis, Paula and Suzzanne Rother. Casketbearers were: Robert Draves, Jeff Hain, Randy Kibsgaard, Mark McLaughlin, Jon and Curtis
Rother.

Carrie L. Root was born at Sumner on August 15, 1889 and was the daughter of Thomas and Laura Van Valkenburgh Root. As a child, her family moved to Dows where she grew to womanhood. On November 27, 1907 she was married to Charles August Draves at Dows. They farmed in the Dows area until moving to town in 1961. He died in 1973. In 1975 she moved to Belmond to the McBurney Apartments and lived there five years before entering the Belmond Care Center.

Survivors include a son, Harold of Galt, two daughters; Florence Barz of Latimer and Margaret Bartz of Alexander, three grandchildren, seven great grandchildren, three great, great grandchildren and one step-great great grandchild, a brother, Herbie Root and a sister; Alta LaRue, both of Shell Lake, Wisc. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, three brothers, two sisters, a son, Floyd, one grandson and two great grandsons. Mrs. Draves was a member of First Lutheran Church in Dows.

Wright County Monitor -- Clarion, Iowa
September 10, 1987