OBITUARY: Verna Burtch Tubbs, 1885-1965, Mitchell Co., Iowa




                          Verna Burtch Tubbs
                           80, Died August 8

Funeral services for Mrs. Verna Tubbs, 80, of Floyd were held August 11,
at Grace Methodist Church in Floyd. Mrs. Tubbs died Aug. 8, at the Osage
Nursing Home where she was a resident since the death of her husband.

Verna True Burtch was born Jan. 17, 1885, in Burr Oak township, Mitchell
County, the daughter of pioneer parents, J. G. and Fannie Bush Burtch.
She remained in that area during her childhood. She was graduated from
Osage high school and later took a business course at Cedar Valley
seminary, an institution founded by her uncle, Alva Bush. She taught
in the rural schools of Mitchell County.

She was married to Clayton Tubbs Nov. 12, 1908. In his work as a well
driller she lived in many parts of the community.

She was baptized at the Baptist church in Osage, Nov. 8, 1904, and remained
a member of that church for 40 years. She was an affiliate of Grace
Methodist, Floyd, since 1934, where she was active in women's work of
the church and in the music department. She also had been a member of
Shakespearean study club while she lived in Osage.

She is survived by one grandson, Robert Tubbs of Phoenix, Ariz.

Mrs. Tubbs was preceded in death by her husband, Clayton, her parents, and
one adopted son, Wendell Burtch Tubbs, two children who died in infancy,
several brothers and sisters.




SOURCE: Osage News August 1965 


Submitted by Kathy McAlister Pike, August 2003

Copyright 2003 - Kathy McAlister Pike