OBITUARY: Bessie (Button) Tubbs, 1886-1969, Mitchell Co., Iowa
            
  
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                 Mrs. Bessie Tubbs, 83, of Osage Died

Funeral services for Mrs. Bessie Tubbs, 83, of Osage were held Friday
at the Baptist church. Mrs. Tubbs died March 25, at Mitchell County
Memorial Hospital in Osage after a year of failing health. She was
admitted to the hospital March 23, and was the victim of a malignancy.

The Rev. Wesley Anderson, pastor, was in charge of the services, and
arrangements were by C.R. Champion and Sons. Burial was in the Osage
Cemetery.

Bessie Button was born Feb. 26, 1886 in Burr Oak Township, Mitchell
County, the daughter of Cyrus and Carrie Case Button. The family left
Burr Oak and lived in Valley Falls Kansas, Edgerton Missouri, and
Harding County, South Dakota.

Ray Tubbs and Bessie Button were married March 18, 1913 in Kansas City, MO,
and they settled in Osage shortly after to remain in this area for the
remainder of their lives.

She was a member of the Baptist Church here, and worked in various
capacities including the American Baptist Women and her circles.

Surviving are her children; Grace and Rollin of Osage; Mrs. Bill Gardner
(Kathryn), and Mrs. John Tesar (Shirley) of Cedar Rapids; Mrs. Melvin
Warner (Betty) of Davenport; four brothers, Sherman Button of Raytown,
Missouri; Wayne and Joe Button of Kansas City, Missouri; Henry Button
of Seattle, Washington; two sisters, Mrs. Doris Hoffman of Sacramento,
California; Mrs. Ruth Odam of Glendora New Jersey; 22 grandchildren and
13 great-grandchildren.

Preceding her in death were her husband, an infant son, two daughters,
her parents and one brother.


Osage News March 1969 

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Coming to Osage last week to attend the funeral of Mrs. Bessie Tubbs
were Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Parr (Ike) and daughter Mrs. Willis Mouw of
Baudette, Minn., Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Coonradt of Waverly, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Howk, and Mr. and Mrs. David Tesar of Cedar Rapids, Mr. and
Mrs. Leo Tesar of North Liberty, Lydia Stoffer of Faribault and her
daughter from Owatonna, Mr. and Mrs. Rolland Walker and family of
Wellman, Warren Ball of Austin. Miss Grace Tubbs who lived with her
mother at their Osage home accompanied Mr. and Mrs. John Tesar to
Cedar Rapids to remain for a visit of several days. Also coming for
the rites were Mrs. Tubbs' children, Mrs. Bill Gardner and the John
Tesars of Cedar Rapids, Mrs. Melvin Warner of Davenport.


Osage News March 1969


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