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Obituaries
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submitted by: Julia Johnson - juliajoh@usc.edu
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Taylor
County Herald Thursday July 1934 Mrs.
Martha M. Patton Mrs.
Martha M. Patton,
beloved mother of Miss Rena Patton, and sister of Miss Hettie Thompson, who formerly lived in the Burnside
and Elvaston neighborhoods, passed away at her home in Los Angeles,
Calif., on Sunday, July 22nd, 1934. Had she lived until December she would have attained her 85th
birthday. Services
in her memory were held in beautiful Hollywood Chapel on July 24th
and she was laid to rest beside her husband [James Gaines Patton] who passed away in 1910. Many beautiful flowers were a silent testimonial
to the love and respect in which she was held by many friends. Present
for the services were cousins who reside in southern California: Mr. and Mrs. George Campbell, of Orange;
Mr. and Mrs. Will Geddes of Los Angeles, and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Kirkpatrick
of Pomona. Kenneth Kirkpatrick
is the only grandchild of townsman, George W. Kirkpatrick and Mrs. Patton
was a cousin of his mother, Mrs. E.W. Kirkpatrick, who resides in Sulphur,
Okla. |
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Bedford
Times-Press Thursday August 2, 1934 [p. 1] Former
Resident Dies Mrs.
J. [ames] G. [aines] Patton [Martha Thompson], a resident of Bedford and community forty years
go, died at her home in Los Angeles, Calif., Sunday, July 22. She was the [step] mother of the late
Fred Patton of west of Bedford. |
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Bedford
Times-Press Thursday November 8, 1934 [p. 1] Mrs.
A. V. Davidson
Dies Mrs.
A. [rthur] V. [erne] Davidson died at her home in Wichita, Kans., Wednesday. The body will be brought to Bedford for
burial. Mrs. Davidson was
a former resident of this community, being Miss Nettie [sic] [Mattie]
Kemery before her marriage. She was a sister-in-law of A. B. Davidson,
who resides just east of Bedford. |
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Bedford
Times-Press Thursday November 15, 1934 p. 4 Mrs.
A. V. Davidson
Funeral Here Sunday Funeral
services for Mrs. A. [rthur] V. [erne] Davidson, 51, who died at her home in Wichita,
Kans., Wednesday, Nov. 7, were held at the Wetmore Funeral Home in Bedford
Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. J. C. Harris. Interment in the Bedford mausoleum. Mrs.
Davidson, who before her marriage was Miss Mattie Kemery, was born Sept. 13, 1883. She was married to Arthur Verne Davidson,
Dec. 23, 1903. Before her
marriage both resided in Bedford.
Mr. Davidson was a member of Company I in the Spanish-American
war. He died May 7, 1928. She
was a member of the Order of Eastern Star. Surviving
relatives are her mother, Mrs. Anna F. Kemery of Blockton; four sisters, Mrs.
Osta Amrine
of Hocomo, Mo., Miss Ode Kemery of Blockton, Mrs. Rose Bothel of Cupar, Sask., Canada, and Mrs.
Georgia Ford
of Blockton; and one brother, Floyd Kemery of Des Moines. |
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Bedford
Times-Press Thursday January 9, 1936 p. 4 Former
Resident Dies In Chadron, Nebr. Mrs.
Lovell Goff,
64, a former resident of the Bedford community, died at the Municipal
Hospital in Chadron, Nebr., Dec. 12.
The funeral services wee held at the Congregational church in
Chadron and burial was in the Greenwood cemetery. Effie
May Kemery,
daughter of John and
Mary Jane [Hoover] Kemery, was born at Bedford, Iowa, Feb. 26, 1871. At the age of nineteen she moved with
her parents to Dawes County, Nebr., and spent the remainder of her life
there. Feb.
26, 1891, she was married to Lovell Goff of Dawes County, Nebr., moving on the land he homesteaded
in 1885, and where they made their home. To them were born five children, all of whom survive. They are Waldo K. Goff, Mrs. Lillian Hayden, Mrs. Myrtle Nixon, Mrs. Mable Schumacher, and Theodore L. Goff, all of the Chadron vicinity.
Mr. Goff died April 10, 1906. Mrs.
Goff is also survived by three sisters and one brother, all of Taylor
County; also fifteen grandchildren. |
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Bedford
Times-Press Thursday July 30, 1936 [p.1] Miss Irene McCloud Dies Last Monday Miss Irene McCloud, a resident of Bedford and Taylor
County nearly all of her life, died at her home in Bedford Monday, July
27, after a short illness, at the age of 81 years, 8 months and 13 days. The
funeral services were held at the Methodist Episcopal Church at 10 0'clock
this morning, Thursday, July 30, conducted by Rev. J. Stanley Decker. Burial was in the Graceland cemetery. Miss Irene McCloud, daughter of John Self and Miranda Jane McCloud, was born in Muskingum County,
Ohio, November 14, 1854. At
the age of two years she moved with her parents to Farmington, Iowa,
and one year later the family moved to Taylor County, where she had
since resided. She
began teaching school at the age of fifteen, teaching in the rural schools
and later in the Bedford graded school.
She served as county superintendent of the public schools for
one term. She
was a member of the Methodist church and took a great interest in the
Sunday school, the Epworth League and the Foreign Missionary society.
She was also a member of the P.E.O. Sisterhood.
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Taylor
County Herald Thursday July 30, 1936 [p.1] Rites
Held Today for Irene McCloud Rites
were held this morning at ten o'clock from the Methodist church in Bedford
for Irene McCloud,
81, veteran public school teacher and a former Taylor county superintendent. Miss
McCloud, ill only a few days, died Monday evening of pneumonia resulting
from laryngitis. She
is survived by a sister, Miss Eva McCloud of Bedford; a brother, Lincoln McCloud of Washington, D.C., and by a sister-in-law,
Mrs. Carr McCloud [Emmie Dee Murphy] of Shreveport, La. The
services were conducted by the Rev. J.
Stanley Decker. Interment
was in Graceland cemetery. |