Ethel I <I>Alexander</I> Oldham

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Ethel I Alexander Oldham

Birth
Elm Creek, Buffalo County, Nebraska, USA
Death
11 Nov 1980 (aged 90)
Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Bedford, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 6, Lot 111, grave 2
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Ethel Isadora Alexander was born April 17. 1890, near Elm Creek, Nebraska, daughter of Charles Walter James Alexander & Anna Isadora(Jacobs) Alexander. She moved with her parents (in 1895) to Bedford Township, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, residing with her parents on Alexander Road.
She graduated from Bedford High School in the Class of 1910. She taught school in a one-room schoolhouse in Bedford Township, and in Willoughby, Ohio, as Teacher-Principal.

She married Fred Wilson Oldham, of Bedford, Ohio, on Christmas Day 1917, in Bedford. She was a charter member of Bedford American Legion Post #350 Auxilliary, in which she was very active.

Ethel died in Beverly, Massachusetts at the home of her daughter, Mary Helen Bouchard, on Armistice Day, Nov 11, 1980. Services were held at Johnson-Romito Funeral Home, Bedford, Ohio, Nov.15, the Rev. Paul Balliett of the Maple Heights Methodist Church. (Rev. Balliett was formerly minister at Bedford Methodist Church, of which Ethel was a member.)
Burial was in Bedford Cemetery, Bedford, Ohio, Nov 15, 1980.

Ethel Isadora Alexander was born April 17. 1890, near Elm Creek, Nebraska, daughter of Charles Walter James Alexander & Anna Isadora(Jacobs) Alexander. She moved with her parents (in 1895) to Bedford Township, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, residing with her parents on Alexander Road.
She graduated from Bedford High School in the Class of 1910. She taught school in a one-room schoolhouse in Bedford Township, and in Willoughby, Ohio, as Teacher-Principal.

She married Fred Wilson Oldham, of Bedford, Ohio, on Christmas Day 1917, in Bedford. She was a charter member of Bedford American Legion Post #350 Auxilliary, in which she was very active.

Ethel died in Beverly, Massachusetts at the home of her daughter, Mary Helen Bouchard, on Armistice Day, Nov 11, 1980. Services were held at Johnson-Romito Funeral Home, Bedford, Ohio, Nov.15, the Rev. Paul Balliett of the Maple Heights Methodist Church. (Rev. Balliett was formerly minister at Bedford Methodist Church, of which Ethel was a member.)
Burial was in Bedford Cemetery, Bedford, Ohio, Nov 15, 1980.


Inscription

OLDHAM
ETHEL I. FRED W.
1890-1980 1891-1961



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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27615343/ethel_i-oldham: accessed ), memorial page for Ethel I Alexander Oldham (17 Apr 1890–11 Nov 1980), Find a Grave Memorial ID 27615343, citing Bedford Cemetery, Bedford, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA; Maintained by MHB (contributor 46895766).