Bess was the d/o Theodore Linus and Julia Ella Wade Williams. She had one sister, Lou Ella Wade and two brothers, J. Neil and Robert. Her mother died when she was 5 years old and Bess was taken to her father's sister, Nettie Wagoner, to be raised in Bethany, MO. While living with Aunt Nettie, Bess attended a music conservatory in Lexington. MO. She later returned home to care for her father and Neil. Robert had left home some years earlier and no one knows whatever became of him. Bess married Paul Vanderpool July 28, 1916 in Trenton, MO. Later they moved to Melbourne, MO where their two daughters, Frances Maxine and Grace Lillian were born. She had five grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild. She passed away of breast cancer in 1961. Bess loved to sing. She spent many hours singing with her five grandchildren in her backyard lawn swing in Rocky Ford on early summer mornings as they listened to mourning doves cooing. She was the best!

Newspaper clipping:

"Mother Dies

MRS. PAUL Vanderpool, 63 of Rocky Ford, Colo., mother of Mrs. D. F. (Frances) Johnson of 4 E. Nazro. died at 4 a.m. Monday at her home after a short illness. Funeral services will be held at Estick Funeral Home in Rocky Ford Tuesday afternoon."

From Funeral memento card:

IN REMEMBRANCE
OF
LINDA BESS VANDERPOOL
Born-October 20, 1893
Died-June 12, 1961
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SERVICES FROM
Ustick Funeral Home
Wednesday, June 14, 1961
At 10:00 O'clock A. M.
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OFFICIATING MINISTER
Rev. Marion Prather
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MUSIC
Isabel Ustick
William Hageman
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INTERMENT
Valley View Cemetery
Rocky Ford Colorado
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PALLBEARERS
Dean Umbarger
Allen Nevins
Walt Silvers
H. B. Mann
Clarence Mattson
Kenneth Mays