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Obituaries
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submitted by: Julia Johnson - juliajoh@usc.edu
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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 78th 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. 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. 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. 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
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