OBITUARY: Jessie Estella Cooper Kelley, 1877-1966, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Source: Mitchell County Press-News or Mason City Globe Gazette]


                   MRS. SID KELLEY, LONGTIME OSAGE
                              RESIDENT, DIED

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Champion Funeral home for
Mrs. Sidney Kelley, 88, who died in her sleep at her home last Wednesday
night.  She had been in fair health preceding her death. (Mar. 1966.)

The Rev. Robert Smith, pastor of the Methodist Church, was in charge of the
services.  Burial was in the Osage cemetery.

Jessie Estella Cooper was born in Knoxville, Ohio, Nov. 25, 1877, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Cooper.  She attended school in Richland
Center, Wis., having moved there with her parents as a child.   In 1896
she came to Osage and attended dressmaking school, making her home with
her two brothers, Edward and Robert Cooper.

She was united in marriage to Sidney H. Kelley, Oct. 4, 1899, at Orchard.
They established their home on East Main in Osage, where Mrs. Kelley
continued to reside.  Mrs. Kelley was a member of the Methodist church,
was active in Organ Club and Women's Society of Christian Service.

Mrs. Kelley's survivors include her foster daughter, (Grace) Mrs. Martin
Klar of Osage, three grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren, and several
nieces and nephews.

Preceding her in death were her husband, her parents, two sisters and two
brothers.





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