OBITUARY: Jessie Bloes, 1902-1995, Mitchell County, Iowa

[MASON CITY (Iowa) GLOBE GAZETTE - August 8, 1995]
                                           


                          Jessie Bloes

OSAGE--Jessie Bloes, 93, of Oxnard, Calif., formerly of Osage and
Waterloo, died Wednesday (Aug. 2, 1995) at her daughter's home
in Oxnard, Calif.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday at the Sacred Heart Catholic
Church, Osage, with the Rev. Dennis Cahill officiating.

Burial will be in the Sacred Heart Cemetery.

Visitation will be on Monday at the Champion Funeral Home.

Jessie Bloes was born July 18, 1902, on the family farm north
of Osage to William Cummings and Clara Cummings (nee) Bird.

She was educated in the Osage Schools.

She married John Bloes on Jan. 15, 1923, in Osage. They lived
for a short time in Osage, then moved to Waterloo where John
was employed by John Deere.

Jessie moved to California after John's death in 1983. She lived
with her daughter, Kathryn.

She is survived by her daughter, (Mrs. Ernest) Kathryn Sampson
of Oxnard, Calif.; six grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren;
four sisters, Clara Tyler of Osage; Martha Haehn of Grand Meadow,
Minn.; Frances Diedrich of Burlington, Wis., and Ellen Enfield
of LeRoy, Minn.; and one brother Ralph Cummings of Osage.

 

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