| Taylor County, Iowa obituaries N-names |
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Neville, Rosana - Rosanna
Luellen, daughter of Delilah and Francis Luellen was born Sept 27, 1868
near New Market, Iowa and passed away at her home in Gravity, March 23,
1936, age -- years, 5 months and 26 days. At the age of 12 years her mother
passed away and she made her home with Lester O'Dell's until her marriage
to Alfred Neville Aug 16, 1899. To this union was born one daughter, Helene
M. Hawn. She also mothered two children of her husband's by his former
wife.
Those left to mourn her loss, her husband Alfred Neville, and daughter
Helen Hawn of Conway. Also one step-daughter, Tillie Price of Toldeo,
Ohio, 2 brothers Loren Luellen of Oklahoma, and Willie Luellen of Colorado.
Seven grandchildren, many nieces and nephews, other friends and relatives.
Those preceding her in death are father, mother, one sister and step-son,
Thomas Neville.
She was a member of the Gravity M.E. church, was active member as long
as her health permitted in the work of the Methodist church of this place
also royal Neighbors and Rebekah Lodge. Always ready to do for others
as well as her own family in the time of trouble of any kind and never
complained about her task.
She was taken to Oak Dale, Iowa, for medical aid and remained there
for four years then returned to her home in June 1935 and there took to
her bed waiting for the calling ofher savior Lord Jesus Chrsit whom she
held steadfast to the end. The funeral service was held at the Methodist
church at 2 pm Wednesday. Burial was made in the Gravity cemetery.
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| Novinger, Sylvia Bell Bloom
- Sylvia Bell Bloom was born near Shenandoah, Page county, Iowa Jun 30,
1898. Her parents were George Bloom (and Hattie Chesnut). She married Dec
31, 1919 Fred Novinger, and they moved to Sterling, Colo, May 1926. To them
was born one son, Boyd George Novinger. She died Sep 1, 1927 in Sterling,
Colo and was buried beside her sister, Edna, in Dallas Center. |
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| Nevin, Lucetta Jane Barton -
Lucetta Jane Nevin, wife of Perry F. Nevin, died at the home of her brother,
John Barton, in Bedford Aug 30, 1928. She was born Aug 26, 1854 on a farm
in Henry co, Iowa. On Jan 1, 1873, she married Perry Franklin Nevin. She
is survived by 3 children: Mrs Charles Osburn, Harry E. and Mrs Grace Glassgow.
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| Neff, Olive - In a letter
received recently by Ren Fuller from Sherman Neff of Los Angeles, California,
he told of the death of his mother, Mrs Olive Neff, which occurred in that
city on November 5th. Death came as a result of a stroke of paralysis. She
was 71 years of age. Until a few years ago when the family moved to California,
the Neffs lived in Bedford and their many friends and relatives in this
community will be grieved to learn of her death. Mrs Neff suffered two strokes
and never rallied from the second although her relatives there held out
hopes for her recovery until within forty-eight hours of her passing. Mrs
Neff had a comfortable home in Los Angeles and enjoyed the city and its
climate. Her sons, A.G., Jess, Ben, George and Sherman lived in that vicinity
and visited their mother often and all but Ben were with her in her last
illness. Bedford Free Press, Bedford, Iowa, Nov 20, 1924 |
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Northover Alma Beatrice Lee McMillin,
was born January 21, 1910 in Huron, South Dakota to William Napoleon Lee
and Bertha Marie Lee. She died on January 11, 2000 at the Corning Hospital
at the age of 89 years, 11 months and 21 days.
When Alma was about one month old her family moved to Medora, North Dakota.
In 1921, they moved to Shenandoah, Iowa. Later they moved to the Essex area,
and then to the Conway, Iowa area. She attended schools in Conway and later
Bedford.
On August 4, 1927 she was united in marriage to Gene McMillin to whom she
was married for 39 years. Ten children were to come from this union. Her
husband Jean [sic] died in December of 1966. She later married Alfred Northover
in January, 1972. They were married 22 years until he died in 1994.
Outside a few years in Parnell, Missouri, she lived all of her adult life
in the Bedford area. She not only kept very busy raising a house filled
with children, but managed to make ends meet by working as a telephone operator,
selling Avon, working in the Gambles Store, and cleaning homes and offices.
Her children remember very lean times and their mother doing her best to
insure their best welfare. This would sometimes mean fixing some food for
the children but going without herself. In her later years she made it very
clear that she had no desire to go back and relive her past, since it had
been so difficult.
She loved going to church, of which she was a member of the First Baptist
Church of Bedford, even when she was extremely weak in her later years.
She enjoyed playing cards and dominos with a trio of friends every day if
possible in her home at the Northside Apartments, where she had lived since
1994. She loved eating out with her friends, or family members if they would
stop by. She loved flowers, collecting book marks, key chains, jewelry and
doing crossword puzzles.
She was preceded in death by her parents, both husbands, a brother and a
sister, and three children: Marvin McMillin, Flo Marie McMillin and Joanne
Marlene McMillin, who died at one week of age. She also lost one grandchild
and one great grandchild.
Survivors include her children: Helen and husband Bill Coleman of Gravity,
Iowa; Wilma and husband Roy McGraw of Essex, Iowa; Norman and wife Anna
Mae McMillin of Bedford; mary and husband John Million of Essex, Iowa; Paul
and wife Jo of Council Bluffs, Iowa; Linda and husband Tom Anderson of Essex,
Iowa; and Ronald McMillin of Bedford. She also leaves a heritage of 25 grandchildren,
47 great grandchildren and 7 great, great grandchildren, with another great
grandchild due this month.
Funeral services were held Thursday, January 13, 2000 at Novinger Taylor
Funeral Home in Bedford with Pastor Jamie Mogler officiating. Interment
at Bedford City Cemetery followed the services.
Bedford Times-Press, Bedford, Iowa Jan 19, 2000 |
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[106] Neumeyer, Richard - Funeral services for
Richard Neumeyer, age 84 of Bedford, who died Sunday, May 7, 2006 at Creighton
Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska were held Thursday, May 11, 2006 at 10:30.m.
at the United Methodist Church in Bedford with Reverend William Ballard
officiating.
Interment with military rites accorded by the John F. Hardin American Legion
Post No. 164 were held in the Hopkins Cemetery. A Masonic Service was held
Wednesday evening at the Ritchie Funeral Home at 7:00 during visitation.
Memorials can be given in Richard's name. Please leave a message of tribute
to the Neumeyer family on our web page, www.ritchiefuneralhome.com under
Obituaries. Arrangements were entrusted to the Ritchie Funeral Home of Bedford.
Richard Arthur Neumeyer was born May 17, 1921, in Polk Township, Taylor
County, Iowa the son of Henry Elmer Neumeyer and Constance A. (Florea) Neumeyer.
He grew up attending rural schools to the eighth grade and then went to
work as a hired man in the High Prairie Community. In 1940, he went to work
for his future father-in-law, Bruce Clymens.
In January of 1943, Richard answered the call to serve his country by entering
the United States Army, he and a bunch of other men loaded up in front of
the Taylor County Courthouse late one January evening and headed off to
serve their country, taking their training in Fort Warren, Wyoming. Richard
was soon sent overseas to Greenland where he served for three years during
World War II with the Quartermaster Corps.
Upon his discharge in January of 1946, he returned to the area where he
again worked as a hired man. Now, when Richard first went to work for Edra's
father she was a junior in high school, upon his return from the service,
she had graduated high school and was teaching in the Valley School Neighborhood.
On May 25, 1947, Richard was united in marriage to Edra Clymens at the United
Methodist Church in Bedford.
Soon after their marriage the couple rented some land near the school Edra
was teaching at and began farming. In those days, the farming began on a
shoestring - they had been given a jersey cow from Edra's father and a shorthorn
cow from Richard's father, and that, along with some borrowed machinery,
and they were off and running on their farming and cattle career!
In the 1950's they moved east of Bedford where they farmed for ten years
and in the 60's they were finally able to purchase their own 171 acres north
of Bedford known as the McDowell farm in Marshall Township, located 1½
miles west of the county home. Together they would farm this land, raising
cattle and hogs and enjoying the good life.
In 1987, Richard suffed health problems, having open heart surgery, and
it was then he and Edra decided to retire and move into town, purchasing
their current home in Bedford in 1990. Always a 'farmer at heart' Richard
continued to mow his lawn and tend his garden in the true farmer's way.
He meticulously taking care of his lawn, garden and the beloved John Deere
equipment! Although Richard and Edra had no children of their own, they
truly enjoyed their nieces and nephews. During Edra's teaching years, Richard
loved to hear the tales about the children at school, he seemed to thoroughly
enjoy sharing in their lives.
Richard was a life time member of the Taylor County Historical Society;
a member of the Bedford United Methodist Church; past member of the Gravity
Fire Department and the Taylor County Conservation Club. He was also a member
of the Taylor County Farm Bureau and the John F. Hardin American Legion
Post No. 164.
Richard was a Mason and a member of the Plumb Masonic Lodge No. 285 A.F.
and A.M., located in Siam. For many years, Richard and Edra loved belonging
to the Gravity Promenades Square Dancing Club. Together with their friends
they shared many dances and good memories. In his younger years, he enjoyed
hunting and fishing as well as gathering Indian artifacts.
Left to cherish Richard's memory are his loving wife of 59 years, Edra Neumeyer
of Bedford; three brothers, Sidney Neumeyer of Bonners Ferry, Idaho; George
Neumeyer of Hopkins, Missouri; and Howard Neumeyer of Caldwell, Idaho; along
with many nieces, nephews and a whole community of friends.
Preceding Richard in death were his parents Henry and Constance Neumeyer;
a brother Jason Neumeyer; and two sisters, Verna McDonald and Louise Archer.
May God grant comfort and strength to those who mourn Richard's passing.
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[107] Newkirk, Roy Dwight - Funeral services
for Roy Dwight Newkirk, age 84 of Shenandoah, formerly of Bedford, who
died Friday, October 27, 2006 at Garden View Care Center in Shenandoah
were held Sunday, October 29, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. at the Ritchie Funeral
Home in Bedford with Reverend Allan Bash officiating. Interment with
military rites accorded by the John F. Hardin American Legion Post No.
164 were held in the Fairview Cemetery in Bedford. Memorials can be given
in his name. Memories can be shared with the family on our web page at
www.ritchiefuneralhome.com under Obituaries. Arrangements were entrusted
to the Ritchie Funeral Home of Bedford.
Roy Dwight Newkirk was born on the family farm north of Bedford, Taylor
County, Iowa on February 24, 1922, the son of Garret Roy Newkirk and Flossie
(Thompson) Newkirk. He grew up attending the Crum School across the road
from the family farm until graduating from the eighth grade. He then
attended the Bedford High School, graduating with the Class of 1940.
In 1942, he was united in marriage to Helen Ruth Damewood in Maryville,
Missouri. In 1942, Dwight enlisted in the United States Navy serving
during World War II on a ship in the South Pacific until the end of the
war. After Dwight's discharge in December of 1945, he and Helen Ruth farmed
the family farm for eleven years.
In 1958, he joined the United States Postal Service in Council Bluffs.
In 1966, he transferred to the Post Office in Shenandoah, retiring in
1984. After his retirement, Dwight and Helen Ruth spent several winters
in Arizona. Both Dwight and Helen Ruth were baptized in the Christian
Church in Shenandoah on October 25, 1969.
Dwight and Helen were blessed with the birth of two sons, Larry Allen
and Norman Lowell, who died at infancy.
Left to cherish Dwight's memory are his loving wife Helen Ruth of Shenandoah;
his son Larry Newkirk and wife Linda of Council Bluffs; two granddaughters,
Jessica Newkirk and Mikala Newkirk; three great- grandchildren, Ethan,
Kassidee and Hailee; a brother Don Newkirk of Branson, Missouri; and a
sister, Ethel Mae Hanshaw of Bedford; along with many other relatives
and friends.
Preceding Dwight in death were his parents Garret Roy and Flossie Newkirk;
their infant son Norman Lowell; and a brother Howard Newkirk.
May God grant comfort and strength to those who mourn Dwight's passing.
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[108] Nicholson, Randy
Memorial services for Randy Nicholson, age 51 of St.
Joseph, Missouri, formerly of Bedford, who died Sunday,
October 21, 2007 at his parents home south of Bedford
were held Tuesday evening, October 23, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.
at the Ritchie Funeral Home in Bedford. Memorials can be
directed to Hospice of Central Iowa. Memories can be
shared with the family on our website at
www.ritchiefuneralhome.com under Obituaries.
Arrangements were entrusted to the Ritchie Funeral Home
of Bedford.
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[109] Nook, Clifford - Clifford Albert Nook,
the oldest child of Ernest and Wilma (Bell) Nook, was born near Sidney,
Iowa, on November 29, 1926. He spent his early childhood years in the Hamburg,
Iowa area. In 1939, the family moved to a farm southwest of Lenox. Cliff
graduated from Sharpsburg High School in 1944.
Cliff served in the U.S. Army from March 15, 1945, until January 1, 1947.
He was a labor foreman for Japanese prisoners of war in the Philippines
and served as a machine gunner during the Korean occupation. Following his
discharge, he returned to the Lenox area.
On April 30, 1950, he was married to Elizabeth Anne Beach. They lived in
the Sharpsburg area where they raised their two children, Jeanine Marie
and Gregory Ernest, and Cliff farmed. In 1971, they moved to Lenox. Cliff
gave up the farming life in 1973 and worked for Lenox Municipal Light and
Power, the Lenox Sale Barn, and Lenox Grain Fuels. He and Liz were divorced
in 1981.
Cliff married Janice Pauline (Mascher) Breach in Redeemer Lutheran Church.
Corning, Iowa, on May 29, 1982. They moved to their home in Creston, Iowa,
in 1983. In 1986, Cliff went to work at Southwestern Community College.
He loved being around the students and was always there to listen or offer
encouragement to them. In 1997, he was presented a special award naming
him Goodwill Ambassador for Southwestern Community College. After retiring
in 1999, he continued to help out at the college as an ambassador.
Cliff was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Creston and was active
in the Parkinson Post of the American Legion for many years, a long-time
member of the Board of Directors for the Taygold Cooperative, and a member
of several bowling teams. Cliff loved to travel and he and Janice enjoyed
many trips during their time together. Over the years, Cliff enjoyed playing
and watching sports and was the chief fan of his grandchildren at whatever
sport they played. He loved to play cards, was a history buff and even wrote
the history of his own life. Cliff treasured his family and friends and
felt any time spent with them was a gift. He was known for his sense of
humor and could be counted on to leave a smile on the face of anyone he
talked to.
Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Janice Nook of' Creston; his children
Jeanine and husband Tom Lynam of Lenox and Gregory and wife Becky Nook of
Parkville, Missouri; his grandchildren Ryan and Tish Lanteri of Chippewa
Falls, Wisconsin, Tony and Erin Lanteri of Smithville, Missouri, Joshua
Lanteri of Carmel, Indiana, Jared Nook of Parkville, Missouri, and Carissa
Nook of Parkville, Missouri; his great-grandchildren, Brandon, Myah, and
Cooper Lanteri; his three brothers, Dwight and wife Shirley Nook of Lenox,
Glen and wife Shirley Nook of Newton, and Jerold and wife Sandy Nook of
Edgewood, Maryland; his sister Arlene Steddom of Clarinda. Iowa; step-children
Terri and husband Dennis Hudson of Des Moines, Iowa, and Michael and wife
Karen breach of Hinckley, Minnesota; step-grandchildren Thomas and Matthew
Breach, also a step-granddaughter; brothers and sisters-in-law Dorothy and
Laverne Otte and Donald and Jean Mascher, of Clarinda, Agnes and Duane Dunham
and Martha and Bob Rasmussen of Omaha; two aunts Mary Mattes, Bedford, Iowa,
and Marie Richards, Farragut, Iowa; and many nieces, nephews, and cousins. |
[110] Norris, Theola
Funeral services for Theola Norris, age 84 of Bedford, who
died Monday, June 18, 2007, at the Bedford Nursing &
Rehab Center were held Friday, June 22, 2007, at 2:00 p.m.
at the Ritchie Funeral Home. Burial was held in the
Bedford City Cemetery. Memorials can be directed to
Hospice of Central Iowa, the Bedford Ambulance or the
Ahren's Memorial Park. Memories can be shared with the
family on our website at www.ritchiefuneralhome.com
under Obituaries. Arrangements were entrusted to the
Ritchie Funeral Home of Bedford. |