Elma M. (Paulson) BAILEY CROSE

PAULSON, CROSE, EIDE, BAILEY, HEIM, COBB, KNIGHT, OWENS, ROBERTSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:07:00

28 July 1902 ---- 27 December 1997

Elma Paulson was born July 28, 1902, to Emil and Bertha Eide Paulson at Brainerd, Minn. She grew up in Crow Wing County in Minnesota and attended rural school. She was united in marriage to Chester Raymond Bailey in 1920 at Hubbard, Iowa. They lived in Marshalltown until 1930 when they moved to Eagle Grove. He died on August 8, 1944. On May 14, 1955, she was united in marriage to Dennis Crose at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, she lived in Webster City and Des Moines before returning to Eagle Grove in 1977. She moved to Fort Dodge in 1991 and has been a resident at the Humboldt Care Center since March 25, 1994. She was a member of the Juanita Rebeka Lodge in Eagle Grove and Clarion for 54 years, Royal Neighbors, American Legion Auxiliary, Friendly Neighbor Club, and the Methodist Church Circle, all in Eagle Grove.

Elma Bailey Crose died Saturday, December 27, 1997, at the Humboldt Care Center in Humboldt at the age of 95. Survivors include her husband, Dennis Crose of Webster City, 3 daughters, Bertha Heim, Humboldt, Marjorie Cobb and Nina Knight of Fort Dodge; 1 sister, Luella Owens of Brainerd, Minn.; 1 brother, Earl Paulson, Baxter, Minn.; 22 grandchildren; 52 great grandchildren; 13 great-great grandchildren; and 2 nieces and 1 nephew. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Ray; her parents; 1 son, William E. Bailey, 1 daughter, Ileen Robertson; 1 brother, Melvin Paulson; an infant sister, and a grandson, Paul Knight.

Funeral services were held Wednesday (today), December 31, 1997, at 2 p.m. at the Willim Funeral Home in Eagle Grove with the Reverend William E. Ballard officiating. Burial was in the Rose Hill Cemetery at Eagle Grove.

EAGLE GROVE EAGLE --- Eagle Grove, Iowa
December 31, 1997

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source -- Paul Wilde