Gentry county Missouri, Obituaries: Ida Frances McCarty Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Submitted by: Don Raymond The Stanberry Headlight; Stanberry Gentry County Missouri; Thursday, December 21, 1950; front page: Mrs. McCarty Dies Suddenly: Thursday Rites For Mrs. Ida Frances McCarty, Lifelong Stanberry Resident: Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at the Baptist church here for Mrs. Ida Frances McCarty, a lifelong resident of the Stanberry community. Mrs. McCarty, who was 66 years old, died suddenly Tuesday morning at 6:30 o'clock at teh St. Joseph hospital, St. Joseph. The cause of her death was listed as blood clot, with complications from pneumonia. She had been a patient at the hospital since Sunday, Dec. 3, but it was believed her condition was improving during the last few days. Last rites will be conducted by the Rev. Don Stanbey, pastor of the church. Interment will be in a Stanberry cemetery. Mrs. McCarty was born Jan. 10, 1884, five miles northwest of Stanberry. she was the daughter of John and Anna Boner and attended the Fairview School, which is still standing north of the city. She moved to Stanberry in 1904, the year she united with the Baptist church here, and was employed at the Haas and Wrenn Clothing Co. Two years later, on Oct. 6, 1906, she was united in mariage with T. A. McCarty. For the past 12 years she had been associated with her husband in the McCarty Grain, Feed and Coal Co. Besides her husband, of the home, she leaves five children: Max McCarty; Mrs. Helen Harkrider, both of Stanberry, Mrs. Thelma Ashford and Harold McCarty, both of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Mary Louise McDonald of Independence. She also leaves three sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Cook, Craig; Mrs. Emma Buzard, Excelsior Springs and Mrs. Daisy Carlock, Max, Neb.; two brothers, Cleo and Walter Boner, both of Stanberry; 16 grandchildren and three great- grandchildren. Two sisters and four brothers preceded her in death.