[Ida Webb Lister]

Clarinda Herald Journal

Monday   September 27, 1976

Monday Services For Ida Lister

Mrs. Elbert E. (Ida) [Webb] Lister, 96, who with her 102-year-old husband, have lived at their Clarinda home for nearly 50 years, died Thursday at the Municipal hospital.

Services were held this Monday morning at the Walker funeral home, with Rev. John Clark in charge.  Organist was Grace Perry.

Casket bearers were Leo Miller, Wesley Glassgow, D. L. Roberts, Tom Kincheloe, Wendell Davison, and Bethel Bradley.  Burial was in the Clarinda cemetery.

The Listers had celebrated their 78^th wedding anniversary last Dec. 21, being unable to have open house as they had done on their special days during recent years.  Their son, Donald, has been assisting as resident of the home for 12 years and a daughter, Mrs. George (Mildred) Cobb of St. Joseph, Mo., was a frequent visitor.

Mrs. Lister was born in Bedford, where they were married in 1898.  They have been active in Clarinda business circles, operating the former Henshaw hotel many years, but she was able to care for most of the home duties until recently.  She was active with the First Christian Church.

They have three grandchildren.

[Lillian Ruth Maloy Beard Gilleland]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday    March 25, 1982

Final Rites Held In Bedford For Lillian M. Gilleland

Graveside services for Mrs. Charles W. (Lillian) Gilleland, 87, of Corning, held March 21, 1982, at Fairview Cemetery, Bedford, were conducted by Rev. Zona Lautt, Pastor, United Methodist Church, Corning and Brooks, Iowa.  She died Friday, March 19, 1982, at Rosary Hospital in Corning following a lengthy illness.

Lillian [Ruth] Maloy Gilleland was born on April 2, 1894, in Redding, Iowa, the daughter of Dr. John T. [hompson] and Amy (Warden) Maloy.

She was united in marriage to Charles Wesley Gilleland on February 14, 1941, in Maryville, Missouri.  Mr. Gilleland died in January of 1944.

She worked in Omaha, Nebr., where she was the owner and manager of The Sunshine Beauty Salon.  She served as state examiner for the Nebraska Cosmetology Association for the Nebraska Dept. of Health, which is a governor's appointment.  She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star in Bedford.

Lillian became a resident of the Lenox community following the death of her daughter, Frances Guinivere John in 1947.  During this period she reared her granddaughters, Martha and Judy John; and was associated in the Crystal Beverage Bottling Co. with her son, Gordon.

Most of her life was spent in the Lenox and Bedford areas.  In later years, she resided near and with her granddaughter, Dr. and Mrs. (Judy) Dallas F. Hynnek of Brooks.

She was preceded in death by her parents; daughter, Frances Guinivere (Beard) John; and brother, Dr. W. [ayland] H. [oyt] Maloy.

Survivors include a son, Gordon X. Beard and wife, Velma, of Naches, Wash.; four granddaughters: Martha John of Brooks; Mrs. Dallas (Judy) Hynnek of Brooks; Mrs. John (Patricia) Deaton of Charlotte, N. C.; and Mrs. Maynard (Harriett) Harlow of Cincinnati, Ohio; six great grandchildren; and one great great grandchild.

Wherever she made her home, she was surrounded by beautiful floral gardens, which she attended with loving care.  She will be missed by her family and friends and remembered with much love.

[Frances Guinevere Beard John]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday    October 2, 1947    [p. 1]

Mrs. John Dies of Polio Saturday

Mrs. Guinivere John of this city died while enroute to the Iowa Lutheran Hospital, Des Moines, Saturday afternoon, where she was being taken for treatment for polio.  She had been ill about four days, becoming much worse Saturday morning when attending physicians diagnosed her illness as polio, following the collapse of one lung.

Members of the Bedford Fire Department were asked to bring the community's inhalator about noon Saturday, to assist the patient in breathing, and Cliff Hanshaw accompanied the patient and a nurse on the trip toward Des Moines, with the inhalator.  Mrs. John died in Winterset.

Private funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the home of her mother, Mrs. Lillian [Maloy] Gilleland, conducted by Rev. George W. Swan.  Burial was in the Fairview cemetery.

Surviving with her mother are two small daughters; her father, Ed Beard, also of Bedford; and a brother, Gordon Beard of Lenox.

[Major Anderson Adams]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday    October 2, 1947    [p. 1]

Blockton Man Dies At Vinton

M. A. Adams, 87, died at Vinton, Iowa, Thursday morning, September 25.  The funeral services were held at the Christian church in Blockton, Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. L. V. McEleney.  Burial was in the Rose Hill cemetery at Blockton.

Major A. [nderson] Adams, son of Nelson Adams and wife was born at Marion, Iowa, May 6, 1860.

In 1885 he was married to Clara Hitchcock in Nebraska.  She preceded him in death in 1931.

He is survived by two daughters, Ethel Adams of Blockton and Mrs. Esther Irvin of Athelstan; three sons, W. R. Adams of Vinton, Elmer Adams of Blockton, Ray Adams of Muscatine; two sisters and fourteen grandchildren.

[Carl C. Perry]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday    March 25, 1982    p. 4

Carl C. Perry, 71, Last Rites Were Held March 23

Funeral services for Carl C. Perry, 71, of Bedford, were held March 23 in Shum-Novinger Funeral Home here conducted by Evangelist Bud Miller.  Mr. Perry died March 19, 1982, in St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, Mo.  Interment was at Fairview Cemetery, Bedford.

Carl C. Perry, son of Corda Aaron Perry and Nora Etta Hunsaker Perry, was born in Page County, Iowa, April 14, 1910.

He grew to maturity in Page County, Iowa, where he attended the public schools and Methodist Church.

On August 12, 1943, he was united in marriage to Evelyn Lucille Thompson at Hiawatha, Kans.  They lived near Maryville, Missouri, until 1955 when they moved to rural Bedford.

To this union two children were born: Connie Lynne Perry Cox and Kathryn Lucille Perry Crum.

Carl was engaged in farming.  He was preceded in death by his parents, and two brothers: Claudie Perry and Bobby Perry.

Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Evelyn; daughters Connie and her husband, Allen Cox, Kathy and her husband, Mike Crum; five grandchildren: Cavin and Pamela Cox, Erica, Michaela and Trisha Crum; five brothers: Donald and wife of Northboro, Iowa, Olin and wife of Shenandoah, Iowa, and Edwin and wife of Duncan, Arizona; five sisters: Mable Nelson of Blanchard, Iowa, Lefa Chapman of Coin, Iowa, Velma Gell of Northboro, Iowa, Ethel Duncan and husband of Coin, Iowa, and Alice Klute and husband of Blanchard, Iowa.

He was a kind and considerate husband and father to his family and friends and will be missed by all who knew and loved him.