OBITUARY: Ethyl L. (Billington) West, 1902-1997, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Based on Obituary in Mason City Globe Gazette; October 18, 1997]




                            Ethyl L. West

ST. ANSGAR, IOWA-- Ethyl L. West, age 94, of St. Ansgar, passed away
Friday, Oct. 17, 1997, at the Good Samaritan Center in St. Ansgar, which
she had been content and grateful to call "home" for five years.

Funeral services were held on Monday, October 20th, at the St. Ansgar
United Methodist Church, with Pastor Ted Stowers officiating. Interment
was in the St. Ansgar Cemetery.

Ethyl L. (Billington) West was born Nov. 27, 1902, at Winnebago, Minnesota.
Her childhood was spent in this area and on Dec. 3, 1911, she was baptized
in the Presbyterian Church of Winnebago.  Her father was an engineer on
the Milwaukee Railroad.

On Sept. 18, 1925, she was united in marriage to Charles West of St. Ansgar.

She soon became an active member of the Methodist Church, filling many
offices in the Woman's Society of Christian Service and United Methodist
Women. 

Mrs. West was also active in community activities. She was the first
Brownie scout leader, also the first "helper" when Mr. and Mrs. Wesley
Eggleston started a school lunch program.

She is survived by cousins, Mrs. Charles Zimmerman, Littleton, Colorado;
Don Albertson and his wife, Peggy, of Sarasota, Fla.; two nieces, Mrs.
Barbara Ostlund and her husband, Alan, of Annandale, Minn.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Grayce and Charles Billington;
and her husband, Charles.

Schroeder and Sites Funeral Home, St. Ansgar, is in charge of arrangements.



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