Cora May (Worley) Wadsworth (1872-1954)

LINDEE, MARTIN, MCCLEERY, PETERSON, REICHTER, SLOCUM, WADSWORTH, WORLEY, ZINSER

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July 22, 1872 --- November 23, 1954

WADSWORTH – Mrs. Cora May Wadsworth, 82, of 4524 Whitewood Ave., died Tuesday in a Los Alamitos sanitarium. She was born in Panora [Panola], Ill., Mrs. Wadsworth came from Dumont, N. J., to Long Beach in 1949.

Surviving are two daughters, Miss Blanche Wadsworth, Lakewood, and Mrs. Howard Slocum, Menlo Park; two sons, Hal B. Wadsworth, Long Beach, Dr. Lincoln B. Wadsworth; three brothers, the Rev. Lou Worley, Jesse M. Worley and George W. Worley.

Service will be today at 1:30 p. m. in the White Funeral Home, Bellflower, with Rev. Wilford R. Hall officiating. Interment will be in Goldfield, Iowa.

Long Beach Independent
Long Beach, California
November 27, 1954

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The Goldfield Chronicle

Former Resident Buried In Goldfield

Funeral services for Mrs. Cora Wadsworth of Long Beach, Calif., former Goldfield resident, were held at the Kastler Funeral Home in Eagle Grove Wednesday morning at ten o’clock. Burial was made at Glenwood cemetery in Goldfield.

She is survived by two sons, Hal of Long Beach, Lincoln of New York City and two daughters, Miss Blanche Wadsworth of Long Beach and Mrs. Howard Slocum of Fresno, Calif.

Eagle Grove Eagle
Eagle Grove, Iowa
December 2, 1954

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LAST RITES HELD

EAGLE GROVE—Funeral services for Mrs. Cora Wadsworth, 80, of Bellflower, Calif., were held Wednesday at the Kastler Funeral Home in Eagle Grove. Interment was in the Goldfield Cemetery. Mrs. Wadsworth, who had resided in California many years, died there Nov. 23. She was a former resident of Goldfield. Survivors include two sons and two daughters.

Globe-Gazette
Mason City, Iowa
December 4, 1954

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The Goldfield Chronicle

Out-Of-Town People Attend Wadsworth Rites

A dinner was served at the Verven Reichter home Wednesday for out of town relatives and friends attending funeral services for Mrs. Cora Wadsworth, which were held Wednesday morning at Kastlers Funeral Home in Eagle Grove.

Here for the services were Mrs. Wadsworth’s four children; Lincoln of Dumont, N. J., Miss Blanche Wadsworth and Hal Wadsworth of Long Beach, Calif.; Mrs. Howard Slocum of Fresno Calif.; also A. L. Lindee, George Worley, Sr., George Worley, Jr., and Mrs. Cresse McCleery of Des Moines, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Zinser of Faulkner, Mrs. R. L. Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Asa Reichter of Eagle Grove, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Peterson of Clarion.

Obituary

Cora M. Worley was born July 22, 1872 at Pannala [Panola], Ill., and died at Long Beach, Calif., Nov. 23, 1954.

She had six brothers and one sister. In Sept. 1893 she was married to Ephraim Wadsworth of El Paso, Ill. To this union were born five children all of whom survive except Prudence who died in infancy.

Most of Mrs. Wadsworth’s eighty-two years were spent in the Goldfield community. Mr. Wadsworth passed away in 1914 after a lingering illness of four years. Mrs. Wadsworth and the family continued to live at the farm home east of Goldfield for many years. In 1949 she went to California to be with her children. During the last two years her illness required the care of a nursing home.

Besides the children and grandchildren Miss Blanche Wadsworth, of Long Beach, Calif., Hal and Edna Wadsworth and Sandra of Long Beach, Calif.; Evelyn and Howard Slocum, Roger, Bradley and Gregory of Menlo Park, Calif., and Lincoln and Juanita Wadsworth and Lincoln, Joan and Carol of Dumont, N. J. Mrs. Wadsworth is survived by three brothers, George Worley of Des Moines; Rev. Lew Worley of Muskogee, Okla, Jess Worley of San Diego, Calif., also by a sister-in-law, Mrs. Tillie Zinser of Fort Dodge.

Funeral Services were held at Long Beach, Saturday, Nov. 27 and at the Kastler’s Funeral Home in Eagle Grove Wednesday morning with her son Rev. Lincoln Wadsworth in charge of the service after which interment was made in Goldfield cemetery.

Pall bearers were Otto and Alex Matson, Richard and Verven Reichter, Don Martin and Howard Harvey.

Mrs. Wadsworth was for many years a very active member of the Goldfield Baptist church, always giving first place to the interests of her family and her church. Her children through her son who conducted the service on Wednesday pay grateful tribute to the influence of Christian parents. Her example as a true Christian lives on.

Eagle Grove Eagle
Eagle Grove, Iowa
December 9, 1954

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[Transcriber’s Note: Transcribed as published. The deceased’s place of birth was taken from the 1880 U.S. Federal Census for Panola Township, Woodford County, Illinois, 11th & 12th day of June, 1880.]