Burial will be in the Lisbon Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Kenneth Graver, Irving Graver, Jack Leigh, Charles Litts, Warren Carney and Clarence Slach.
Mrs. Blessing died Tuesday in St. Luke's Hospital, Cedar Rapids, where she had been a patient for seven weeks.
She was born May 21, 1884, at Lisbon, and had lived in that community all her life, attending nearby rural schools.
She was married Oct. 21, 1902, to Ray Blessing at the United Brethren parsonage in Lisbon. Mr. Blessing died in 1955.
Surviving are a brother, Lloyd Graver, Lisbon; and three sisters, Mrs. Ed Litts and Mrs. Earl Leigh, both of Lisbon, and Mrs. LaVerne Simmons, Cedar Rapids.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: May 15, 1969
Burial will be in the Lisbon Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Kenneth Graver, Irving Graver, Jack Leigh, Charles Litts, Warren Carney and Clarence Slach.
Mrs. Blessing died Tuesday in St. Luke's Hospital, Cedar Rapids, where she had been a patient for seven weeks.
She was born May 21, 1884, at Lisbon, and had lived in that community all her life, attending nearby rural schools.
She was married Oct. 21, 1902, to Ray Blessing at the United Brethren parsonage in Lisbon. Mr. Blessing died in 1955.
Surviving are a brother, Lloyd Graver, Lisbon; and three sisters, Mrs. Ed Litts and Mrs. Earl Leigh, both of Lisbon, and Mrs. LaVerne Simmons, Cedar Rapids.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: May 15, 1969
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