Adams County Free Press (Corning, Iowa), Thursday, April 7, 1988
BEULAH JANE DOWNEY - Final rites were held for Beulah Jane Downey, 83, of Corning on Tuesday, April 5, 1988, at the Coen-Beaty Funeral Home in Corning. She died April 3 at Mercy Hospital.
Joe Cook officiated at the 1:30 p. m. service. Casket bearers were Jerry Carr, Curt Downey, Doug Downey, Rodney Meyer, Jerry Swartz, Robert Green and Dean Schaffer. Burial was in the Washington Cemetery in Gravity.
Mrs. Downey was born Nov. 4, 1904, at Gravity, the daughter of Nathan and Mae Laird Sexton. She was married on Sept. 12, 1923, to W. [illis] B. [ovel] (Pete) Downey at Clarinda.
They lived most of their married lives in the Corning vicinity before moving to town where they owned and operated the Downey Service Station and Downey trailer Court.
Mrs. Downey was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Pete, in 1975; five brothers and one sister.
She is survived by her children, Calvin Downey and wife, Lucille of Corning, and Mary Jane Duncan and husband, Eddie of Hiawatha, Kan.; five grandchildren; 13 great grandchildren; two sisters, Lorna Hardesty of White Salmon, Wash., and Hazel Green of Cook, Wash.; three sisters-in-law.
BEULAH JANE DOWNEY - Final rites were held for Beulah Jane Downey, 83, of Corning on Tuesday, April 5, 1988, at the Coen-Beaty Funeral Home in Corning. She died April 3 at Mercy Hospital.
Joe Cook officiated at the 1:30 p. m. service. Casket bearers were Jerry Carr, Curt Downey, Doug Downey, Rodney Meyer, Jerry Swartz, Robert Green and Dean Schaffer. Burial was in the Washington Cemetery in Gravity.
Mrs. Downey was born Nov. 4, 1904, at Gravity, the daughter of Nathan and Mae Laird Sexton. She was married on Sept. 12, 1923, to W. [illis] B. [ovel] (Pete) Downey at Clarinda.
They lived most of their married lives in the Corning vicinity before moving to town where they owned and operated the Downey Service Station and Downey trailer Court.
Mrs. Downey was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Pete, in 1975; five brothers and one sister.
She is survived by her children, Calvin Downey and wife, Lucille of Corning, and Mary Jane Duncan and husband, Eddie of Hiawatha, Kan.; five grandchildren; 13 great grandchildren; two sisters, Lorna Hardesty of White Salmon, Wash., and Hazel Green of Cook, Wash.; three sisters-in-law.
Adams County Free Press (Corning, Iowa), Thursday, April 7, 1988
BEULAH JANE DOWNEY - Final rites were held for Beulah Jane Downey, 83, of Corning on Tuesday, April 5, 1988, at the Coen-Beaty Funeral Home in Corning. She died April 3 at Mercy Hospital.
Joe Cook officiated at the 1:30 p. m. service. Casket bearers were Jerry Carr, Curt Downey, Doug Downey, Rodney Meyer, Jerry Swartz, Robert Green and Dean Schaffer. Burial was in the Washington Cemetery in Gravity.
Mrs. Downey was born Nov. 4, 1904, at Gravity, the daughter of Nathan and Mae Laird Sexton. She was married on Sept. 12, 1923, to W. [illis] B. [ovel] (Pete) Downey at Clarinda.
They lived most of their married lives in the Corning vicinity before moving to town where they owned and operated the Downey Service Station and Downey trailer Court.
Mrs. Downey was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Pete, in 1975; five brothers and one sister.
She is survived by her children, Calvin Downey and wife, Lucille of Corning, and Mary Jane Duncan and husband, Eddie of Hiawatha, Kan.; five grandchildren; 13 great grandchildren; two sisters, Lorna Hardesty of White Salmon, Wash., and Hazel Green of Cook, Wash.; three sisters-in-law.
BEULAH JANE DOWNEY - Final rites were held for Beulah Jane Downey, 83, of Corning on Tuesday, April 5, 1988, at the Coen-Beaty Funeral Home in Corning. She died April 3 at Mercy Hospital.
Joe Cook officiated at the 1:30 p. m. service. Casket bearers were Jerry Carr, Curt Downey, Doug Downey, Rodney Meyer, Jerry Swartz, Robert Green and Dean Schaffer. Burial was in the Washington Cemetery in Gravity.
Mrs. Downey was born Nov. 4, 1904, at Gravity, the daughter of Nathan and Mae Laird Sexton. She was married on Sept. 12, 1923, to W. [illis] B. [ovel] (Pete) Downey at Clarinda.
They lived most of their married lives in the Corning vicinity before moving to town where they owned and operated the Downey Service Station and Downey trailer Court.
Mrs. Downey was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Pete, in 1975; five brothers and one sister.
She is survived by her children, Calvin Downey and wife, Lucille of Corning, and Mary Jane Duncan and husband, Eddie of Hiawatha, Kan.; five grandchildren; 13 great grandchildren; two sisters, Lorna Hardesty of White Salmon, Wash., and Hazel Green of Cook, Wash.; three sisters-in-law.
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