Mrs. Emma Grace Horstman, 72, the daughter of Elisha F. and Martha Ryland Miller was born at the Miller homestead two miles northeast of Bonaparte on December 21, 1893. She departed this life on December 27, 1965 at the Laughlin Hospital, Kirksville, Missouri, where she had been a patient for eight days. She had been in ill health for two months.
She was united in marriage in Keosauqua, on February 27, 1924, to Phillip C. Horstman of Bonaparte, who survives.
To this union were born three children; Harlan Boyd, Harold Verle and Dorothy Ilene.
Grace spent her entire life in the Bonaparte community. She was a home loving person devoted to her family. She excelled in gardening and flower growing from which she derived some of her greatest pleasures.
She will be greatly missed by a large circle of relatives and friends for whom she always had a kind word and pleasant greeting.
Surviving in addition to her husband are two sons, Harlan Boyd, of Denmark, Harold Verle, of Bonaparte, and a daughter, Dorothy Ilene at home; two daughters-in-law, Alice and Joanna; five grandchildren, Gary Harlan, Mary Sue, Kendall Lee, Kathryn Louise and Lori Ann.
She is also survived by four sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Fuller, of West Des Moines, Goldie Miller, Mrs. Faye Dawson and Mrs. Marjorie Lindsay, all of Bonaparte and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by sher parents, one sister, Elsie, and six brothers, Bennie Vance, Glenn, Clayton, Frank, Boyd and Byron.
Funeral services were held Dec. 30, 1965 at 2:00 P.M., at the First Presbyterian Church in Bonaparte with Rev. Leroy Moore officiating. She was laid to rest in the White Cemetery northeast of Bonaparte.
She was united in marriage in Keosauqua, on February 27, 1924, to Phillip C. Horstman of Bonaparte, who survives.
To this union were born three children; Harlan Boyd, Harold Verle and Dorothy Ilene.
Grace spent her entire life in the Bonaparte community. She was a home loving person devoted to her family. She excelled in gardening and flower growing from which she derived some of her greatest pleasures.
She will be greatly missed by a large circle of relatives and friends for whom she always had a kind word and pleasant greeting.
Surviving in addition to her husband are two sons, Harlan Boyd, of Denmark, Harold Verle, of Bonaparte, and a daughter, Dorothy Ilene at home; two daughters-in-law, Alice and Joanna; five grandchildren, Gary Harlan, Mary Sue, Kendall Lee, Kathryn Louise and Lori Ann.
She is also survived by four sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Fuller, of West Des Moines, Goldie Miller, Mrs. Faye Dawson and Mrs. Marjorie Lindsay, all of Bonaparte and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by sher parents, one sister, Elsie, and six brothers, Bennie Vance, Glenn, Clayton, Frank, Boyd and Byron.
Funeral services were held Dec. 30, 1965 at 2:00 P.M., at the First Presbyterian Church in Bonaparte with Rev. Leroy Moore officiating. She was laid to rest in the White Cemetery northeast of Bonaparte.
Mrs. Emma Grace Horstman, 72, the daughter of Elisha F. and Martha Ryland Miller was born at the Miller homestead two miles northeast of Bonaparte on December 21, 1893. She departed this life on December 27, 1965 at the Laughlin Hospital, Kirksville, Missouri, where she had been a patient for eight days. She had been in ill health for two months.
She was united in marriage in Keosauqua, on February 27, 1924, to Phillip C. Horstman of Bonaparte, who survives.
To this union were born three children; Harlan Boyd, Harold Verle and Dorothy Ilene.
Grace spent her entire life in the Bonaparte community. She was a home loving person devoted to her family. She excelled in gardening and flower growing from which she derived some of her greatest pleasures.
She will be greatly missed by a large circle of relatives and friends for whom she always had a kind word and pleasant greeting.
Surviving in addition to her husband are two sons, Harlan Boyd, of Denmark, Harold Verle, of Bonaparte, and a daughter, Dorothy Ilene at home; two daughters-in-law, Alice and Joanna; five grandchildren, Gary Harlan, Mary Sue, Kendall Lee, Kathryn Louise and Lori Ann.
She is also survived by four sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Fuller, of West Des Moines, Goldie Miller, Mrs. Faye Dawson and Mrs. Marjorie Lindsay, all of Bonaparte and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by sher parents, one sister, Elsie, and six brothers, Bennie Vance, Glenn, Clayton, Frank, Boyd and Byron.
Funeral services were held Dec. 30, 1965 at 2:00 P.M., at the First Presbyterian Church in Bonaparte with Rev. Leroy Moore officiating. She was laid to rest in the White Cemetery northeast of Bonaparte.
She was united in marriage in Keosauqua, on February 27, 1924, to Phillip C. Horstman of Bonaparte, who survives.
To this union were born three children; Harlan Boyd, Harold Verle and Dorothy Ilene.
Grace spent her entire life in the Bonaparte community. She was a home loving person devoted to her family. She excelled in gardening and flower growing from which she derived some of her greatest pleasures.
She will be greatly missed by a large circle of relatives and friends for whom she always had a kind word and pleasant greeting.
Surviving in addition to her husband are two sons, Harlan Boyd, of Denmark, Harold Verle, of Bonaparte, and a daughter, Dorothy Ilene at home; two daughters-in-law, Alice and Joanna; five grandchildren, Gary Harlan, Mary Sue, Kendall Lee, Kathryn Louise and Lori Ann.
She is also survived by four sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Fuller, of West Des Moines, Goldie Miller, Mrs. Faye Dawson and Mrs. Marjorie Lindsay, all of Bonaparte and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by sher parents, one sister, Elsie, and six brothers, Bennie Vance, Glenn, Clayton, Frank, Boyd and Byron.
Funeral services were held Dec. 30, 1965 at 2:00 P.M., at the First Presbyterian Church in Bonaparte with Rev. Leroy Moore officiating. She was laid to rest in the White Cemetery northeast of Bonaparte.
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