Lavalleur, Emma Sharples Wallis – 1879-1944

BENNETT, LAVALLEUR, MUNGER, SHARPLES, TRUELSON, WALLIS

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 7/13/2021 at 21:35:37

Mrs. Lavalleur Dies Wednesday Afternoon Here
Mrs. Emma Wallis Lavalleur, 65, passed away at 3:25 yesterday afternoon at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Munger, in the Bates apartments on North Carroll Street. Mrs. Lavalleur, who had dropsy and complications, had been bedfast the last month. She had been in a coma since Monday night.
Funeral services are to be at 9:30 tomorrow morning at the Huffman Funeral Home, where the body is resting until the time of the rites. The Rev. R. M. Peters, minister of the Methodist Church, will officiate. The body will then be taken to Colfax, where final services will be held at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon at the Baumgardner Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Colfax cemetery.
Mrs. Lavalleur had been here with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Munger, since February. The Mungers moved to Carroll from Spencer in January, when Mr. Munger took over the management of the Ward Farm store.
Mrs. Lavalleur was born Emma Sharples in England April 3, 1870. She was married in England to Alfred Wallis. Coming to America about thirty-four years ago, they spent a short time in new York before locating at Colfax, where Mr. Wallis worked in the mines. He was killed in a mine accident there.
After her marriage to Horace Lavalleur, the family moved from Colfax to a farm in Minnesota, where they were living when Mr. Lavalleur died in 1932. Since his death, Mrs. Lavalleur had divided the time among the home of her children.
She leaves three daughters: Mrs. Vera Bennett, Spencer; Mrs. Robert Truelson (Evelyn), West Bend, and Mrs. Robert Munger (Mary, Carroll, and three grandchildren.
Her two daughters from away were here when she died.
Also surviving are sisters and brothers in England and a brother in Africa.
Mrs. Lavalleur united with the Methodist Church when residing at Colfax.
Source: Carroll Times Herald; May 4, 1944, page 2