Effie O. STACKHOUSE

STACKHOUSE, MUILENBURG, MULLENBURG, MYERSON, REANEY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:07:01

August 8, 1883 --- August 11, 1953

Miss Effie O. Stackhouse was born at Hampton, Franklin County, Iowa, August 8, 1883, and died at her home in Bedford, Iowa, August 11, 1953, at the age of 70 years, 3 days.

Her early childhood and public school years were spent in Hampton, but she completed her high school work and was graduated in Pittsburgh, Kans., where her family then resided. She later made special preparation for the teaching profession, graduating from Iowa University at Iowa City. With training in school supervision she was well prepared for her chosen work, which she did for 25 years. Her last years of schoolwork were spent at Goldfield, Iowa, where she served as principal, from which position she was forced to retire because of ill health.

For the past eight years she has resided at the family home in Bedford, where she heroically fought a losing fight in the effort to regain her health.

She leaves to mourn her going two sisters, Miss Alma Stackhouse and Mrs. Rena Mullenburg [Muilenburg], both of the home in Bedford; two nieces: Mrs. Lois Myerson, Evanston, Ill., and Mrs. Avis Reaney, Denver, Colo. Miss Stackhouse became a follower of her Christ quite early in life and had membership in the Methodist church, which she kept up to date by transferring it to the community where she lived and worked. Her final transfer in the Church militant was from Manning, Iowa, back to Bedford, in 1945.

Funeral services were conducted from Wetmore Funeral Home Friday, August 14, 1953, at 2:00 o’clock by Rev. Robt. M. Peters, minister of the Methodist church. Burial was in Fairview cemetery.

Bedford Times-Press -- Iowa
August 20, 1953