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| Helen Ross |
Helen E. WhittedFuneral services for Helen E. Whitted, 86, of Lake View were held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17, 1990, at Farber & Otteman Funeral Home in Lake View. Pastor Jerold Irvin officiated. Mrs. Whitted passed away at Stewart Memorial Hospital in Lake City on Tuesday, Aug. 14.
Music was by organist Mrs. Nancy Fertig and congregational singing. Mrs. Ervin Thorpe and Mrs. Ethel Wagner were in charge of floral arrangements.
Pallbearers were John Galbreath, Roger Glasnapp, Dana Glassnap, Ray Von Ahn, Donald Tiziani, Michael Stotts and John Whitted. Interment was made in Lake Creek Cemetery at Rockwell City.
Helen Elizabeth Whitted was born Oct. 15, 1903, in Calhoun County, Ia. the daughter of John F. and Mary Statler [sic] Ross. She married Harold Whitted in Sundance, Wyo. on July 24, 1939.
Mrs. Whitted had spent the past five months at Twilight Acres in Wall Lake, after residing for 30 years in Lake View. Prior to that, she had lived on a farm near Lake City.
Mrs. Whitted was an attorney. She retired from practicing law in the mid-1940's.
She was member of the Drama Department of the Lake View Women's Club, the Garden Club, the Fine Arts Club and the National Society of Arts and Letters. She was a past president of the Methodist Women's Society and was active in planning programs for the church, women's groups and clubs. She was an avid reader.
She was a member of the United Methodist Church in Lake View.
Survivors include a sister, Clara Ross Fowlie, and nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold; four brothers: George, Mason, John and Oliver; and a sister Mary. A. Ross Gillespie.
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| Sarah Francis (Fannie) Stevenson-Stotler, 1920 |
FOUND DEAD IN CHICKEN PARK
Mrs. Fannie Stotler Found Dead Thursday Afternoon After Being Dead Several Hours
Word spread through the village on Thursday of last week that Mrs. Fannie Stotler, a familiar character about town was found dead in her chicken yard.
Mrs. Stotler lived alone for many years, and on the day of her death she was missed about the house by her neighbors, but they thought she was in town until in the afternoon when Mrs. Wells and Mrs. Skeels went to the house, but found her still absent and in a short time Mrs. Wells found her lifeless body in her chicken park where she had gone to feed her chickens. In a short time a large crowd had gathered and the lifeless body was removed to the undertaking parlors of Wm. House, where the body was prepared for burial.
Coroner W. J. Porter of Montecello came to Mansfield Saturday morning and empaneled the following jury, A. R. Ross, foreman, Chas. Slater clerk, Garret VanMeter, Robert Bateman, Sr., A. F. Smothers and Dr. Young, who returned a verdict of death from natural causes. (A.R. Ross may be a descendant of a sibling of my 3rd Great Grandfather Henry Ross)
OBITUARY
Sarah Francis Stevenson was born in Cable county W. Virginia, August 1, 1844 and died in Mansfield, October 28, 1920. She was left motherless when a few weeks old and was taken into the home of James Mathews, where she grew to womanhood. In 1852 she accompanied her foster mother to Fayette county, Ohio, and in 1885 [This must be a typo in the newspaper, probably 1855 or 1865] the moved to Illinois, December 28, 1871 she was married to Hiram Stotler. In 1880 they came to Mansfield where she has since resided.
She was converted in early life and united with the Methodist church and lived a constant christian life in her peculiar way, often saying it was the grace of her Lord that carried her thru.
Funeral services were held in the M E. church Sunday afternoon, conducted by the pastor Rev. J. E. Evans. In addition to the floral offerings of friends there was a large boquet [sic] of flowers plucked from the garden of the deceased. The body was laid to rest in the Mansfield cemetery.
