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Obituaries
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submitted by: Julia Johnson - juliajoh@usc.edu
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[Luvira Titus Mahan Kemery] Funeral services were held at the Baptist Church
Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Fred H. Cowles. Burial [was] in Graceland [Titus] cemetery. Luvira U. Titus, daughter of Francis and Lydia
Arnold Titus,
was born near Oxford, Henry County, Illinois, May 31, 1868 and died
at the age of 87 years, 10 months, two days. She came with her parents to Bedford in the spring
of 1869, making the trip in a covered wagon. The Titus family lived in a log cabin on the present site of
the Baptist church, while her father and her uncle, Henry Bundy, hauled lumber from Afton for new
homes on farms they had purchased west of town. Afton was then the end of the railroad. In 1890 she was married to Thomas S. Mahan and to them were born two sons,
Dean Bruce E. Mahan of Iowa City and the late Frank T. Mahan of St. Joseph, Missouri. In the spring of 1898, the Mahan family moved from
a farm to Bedford and the deceased lived at the same address, 807 Jefferson,
since that time. In 1915 she was married to William H. Kemery. Both Mr. Mahan and Mr. Kemery preceded her in death. She united with the Baptist church in Bedford in
1899. She had been a member
of Golden Rule Rebekah lodge of Bedford since 1900, was a Past Noble
Grand and a Past District Deputy President of that lodge. Mrs. Kemery had four grandsons and two great grandsons.
The grandchildren are: Louis F. Mahan,
Camden, N. J.; Dr. Thomas P. Mahan, Willimantic, Conn.; Frank T. Mahan, [deceased 1953], Kansas City;
James B. Mahan,
Washington, D. C. The great grandchildren are Johnny Mahan, St. Joseph, Mo.; Stephen Mahan,
Alexandria, Va. Here from out of town for the last rites were Dean
and Mrs. Bruce E. Mahan of Iowa City; Mrs. Frank T. Mahan and Mrs. Wentzel B. Noll of St. Joseph; Mrs. Jennie Opdylke
McCluskey
of Blackwell, Oklahoma. [Donald Edward Carlton] Mr. Carlton was born in Clearfield, Iowa, the son
of Edith [Buchanan]
and C. [ecil] C. [laire] Carlton. He was married
in November [10] 1940 to Edith [Marian] Thompson of Bedford. Surviving are his wife and mother, two sisters, Mrs.
Alan D. [e Forrest] Thompson [Pauline] of Bedford, and Mrs. Don H. Cofer [Catherine] of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and
their husbands, two nieces and four nephews and other relatives. He was a member of the Methodist church in Clearfield
during his boyhood, and at the time of his death was a member of the
Capital Heights Presbyterian church in Denver, where he served as a
deacon. He served in the U.S. Air Force during the Second
World War. Don's family derived comfort from the words of Dr.
William Remley, now of Ames, formerly of Denver, who was his pastor
and friend. [Beryl Webb Henry] On October 5, 1918, he was married to Violet Campbell
of Bedford. To them three
children were born. He is survived by his wife, Violet; one son, Lt. Gilbert Henry of Fort Dix, N. J., two daughters,
Mrs. Virginia Perkins of Bedford, Margaret at home; two grandchildren, Carol
Ann Henry
and Edward Hal Perkins. Also by his father, R. [obert] L. [etcher]
Henry;
three brothers, Carol Henry of Martin, So. Dak., Hubert Henry and Doyle Henry of Bedford; three sisters, Mrs.
Lola Eckles
of Salt Lake City, Utah, Mrs. Dorothy John of San Francisco and Mrs. Arline Dern of Morehead City, S. C. He was preceded in death by his mother and one brother
[Elvon Robert]. Mr. Henry lived most all his life in Jackson Township
and was a member of the Forest Grove Baptist church. Funeral services were held at the Wetmore Funeral
Home Thursday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Fred H. Cowles. Burial was in Forest Grove cemetery. [Locke
Drexel Branson] Funeral
services were held at the Christian church in Gravity Sunday afternoon,
conducted by Rev. Fred H. Cowles of the Bedford Baptist church. Burial was in Fairview cemetery at Bedford,
with Masonic burial service at the grave. Locke
Drexel Branson, son of
Fred and Mary Branson,
was born Feb. 19, 1893 at Siam, Iowa, and died at the age of 59 years,
three months, 24 days. On
Feb. 2, 1916, he was married to Ruth Hurt at Platteville, Iowa. He
is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary Branson of Bedford; his wife, Ruth; one sister, Mrs. Olen Collar of Bedford; one brother, William Branson of Knoxville, Iowa. He
was preceded in death by his father. Early
in life he accepted Christ as his Savior and was baptized in the Christian
church of Bedford. He
was a member of Masonic lodge No. 459 and the Odd Fellows lodge, both
of Gravity. [James
Stratton Thompson] Dr. Thompson was 52 years old. Surviving are his widow, Mildred, a son, James Jr., and two grandchildren, James
III and
Margaret Christine. Besides his parents, survivors in Bedford are a sister,
Carrolle,
and three brothers, Richard, Alan and Charles. Three other
sisters also survive: Julia Griswold of Wheaton, Ill., Elinor Hillyer of Evanston, Ill., and Edith
Carlton
of Denver. Funeral services were held in Bedford this Thursday
afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Wetmore Funeral Home. Rev. Walter E. Schiel
of the Presbyterian Church officiated. Burial was made in Fairview Cemetery. Services were held in Chicago Wednesday for Dr. Thompson. Born in Bedford in 1899, Dr. Thompson was educated
in the local schools. He
attended the University of Chicago, from which he took his Bachelor
of Science degree in 1922. In
1930 the university conferred on him the academic degree of doctor of
philosophy in physics. For the past 27 years, Dr. Thompson had been on the
faculty of Illinois Institute of Technology (formerly Armour Institute
of Technology) and has been chairman of the physics department for the
past 17 years. Internationally known as an expert on radium emanation,
he was a member of the Physics Club of Chicago, the American Institute
of Physics and the publication committee of the Chicago metropolitan
area of the office of civil defense. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Xi
honorary scientific society, and Sigma Pi Sigma, national physics honor
society. During World War
I he served as a lieutenant in the coast artillery. |