Yuma County CO Archives Obituaries.....CHESNEY, Nora Jane June 4, 1971 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Schorzman debschorz@CenturyTel.net September 5, 2007, 4:54 pm Yuma Pioneer Newspaper Funeral service for Nora Jane CHESNEY was held June 7 at the Yuma Methodist Church with Rev. Erwin Kiel officiating. Burial was made in the Yuma Cemetery. Nora Jane CHESNEY was born at Rock Port, MIssouri on July 11, 1889 and passed away at her home June 4, 1971. She was the seventh child of eleven children born to Albert and Isabel JORDAN. In 1902 she moved with her parents in a covered wagon to Hardy, Nebraska. She was united in marriage to Ambrose W. CHESNEY on December 31, 1908. To the union four children were born; Eva, Vivian, Bernice and Ambrose Jr. She and her husband moved with their family to Yuma December 12, 1918. In 1926 they moved to Greeley and returned to Yuma in 1933. She spent the remainder of her life here. After her husband's death she made her home with her son, Ambrose, until his marriage. She joined the Methodist Church at Hardy, Nebraska when she was just a girl. She leaves to mourn her passing her three daughters, Eva HALL and husband, Frank; Vivian WASSON and husband, Leonard, and Bernice DRESEN and husband, Ed; 18 grandchildren; 30 great grandchildren; two great-great grandchildred, and three sisters. Preceding her in death were her husband; their only son; one grandson; her parents; three brothers and five sisters. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/yuma/obits/c/chesney146gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cofiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb