Vestus Mae (Whitehurst) LEERAR

WHITEHURST, LEERAR, STUDER, MEYERS, FLEMING, STOKESBARY, KUCH, SCHMID, PLETCHER, SHUJTER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/10/2009 at 11:04:15

Mason City Globe Gazette - Iowa
July 7, 1995

KANAWHA, Ia-- Vestus Mae (Whitehurst) Leerar, 84, died Tuesday (July 4, 1995) at the Kanawha Community Home. Vestus Whitehurst was born Dec. 9, 1910, in Pontiac, Ill. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Ewing Funeral Chapel, Britt, with the Rev. Eldon Elmore officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery, Britt. Visitation is after 3 p.m. today at Ewing Funeral Home, Britt.

Vestus is survived by her husband, Jake Leerar; one son, Leonard Leerar and his wife, Donna, of Britt; three daughters, Dorothy Studer and her husband, Gary, of Corwith; Audry Meyers and her husband, William "Bill," of Corwith, and Deloris Fleming and her husband, Wayne, of Parker, Co.; 11 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; five stepgreat-grandchildren; nine stepgreat-great-grandchildren; four sisters, Ellen Kuch of Britt; Evelyn Stokesbary and her husband, Arvid, of Clear Lake; Gladys Schmid and her husband, Clarence, of Britt, and Irene Pletcher and her husband, Robert, of Forest City; and one brother, Orvin Whitehurst and his wife, Jan, of Clear Lake. She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Blanche Shujter; and four brothers, Glen Whitehurst, John Whitehurst, Mervin Whitehurst and Ivan Whitehurst.