| Mrs. M'Call Is Taken by Death
Death Occurs After Years of Ill Health At Home Southeast of Town
Mrs. Claude McCall, 62 years of age, died at eight o'clock
yesterday evening at her home, six miles southeast of town, in the
Pleasant Hill neighborhood. She had been a sufferer from ill health for
the last several years, but her last serious illness was of only two weeks duration.
Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at two o'clock
at the L. A. Jones funeral home to be followed by burial in Elm Grove
cemetery. Friends of the family may pay their respects this evening and
until the hour of the funeral at the funeral home, where the casket will be opened.
Born Southeast of Town
Phoebe Arvilla Lindsey was born October 20, 1871, three miles
southeast of Washington a daughter of Rolland and Martha (Wilson)
Lindsey. She was reared in that community and was married Sept. 2, 1889
to George T. Swift. They took up their residence on a farm in the
Pleasant Hill community and that was her home since, with the exception
of 11 years spent in town, on East Second street. She moved back to the farm last year.
Mr. Swift died in 1904 and in 1911 she was married to Claude
McCall who survives her.
Surviving children are Mrs. Etteine Spenler, Mrs. Bessie Wittrig,
Bryan Swift, Mrs. Ruth Schneider, Arthur Swift, Mrs. Gertrude Darbyshire,
Mrs. Louise Harter and Marguerite McCall, all of the Washington
vicinity. Two are deceased, Mrs. Edith Wagner and Ray Swift. There are
21 living grandchildren and one deceased.
Brothers and sisters who are living are three half brothers,
Dick, Alex and Will Lindsey and three sisters, Mrs. James Swift of
Washington, Mrs. R. A. Bures of Hastings Nebr., and Mrs. Sarah Smith of Gilson, Ill.
Mrs. McCall, devoted in her home and her church, early in life
united with the Christian church at Pleasant Hill, but was now a member
of the Washington congregation. She was in no other organizations.
(Washington Journal, Washington, Iowa, Wednesday, December 20, 1933) |
