BACKMAN OBITUARIES, Henry County, Missouri
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BACKMAN, Ida TUBBESING 1903 - 1952

Ida Tubbesing Backman Dies - Many Henry Countians were saddened at news of 
the death of Mrs. R. H. Backman, the former Ida Tubbesing, on Nov. 20, 1952, at a 
Rolla, MO, hospital which she entered Nov. 18 when her condition became critical. 
She went by ambulance from her home at St. James, MO, and was placed in an 
oxygen tent but never regained consciousness. Ida, daughter of Henry and Isabelle 
Stutte Tubbesing, was born Dec. 9, 1903, one mile east of Quarles. There she 
grew to young womanhood, attending the Comer grade school and the Shawnee 
Mound high school, and at an early age she became a member of the Quarles 
Baptist Church. As a young woman she was a telephone operator in St. Louis for 
several years. On Nov. 27, 1929, she married Rinehard H. Backman and to this 
union three children were born: Annabelle (now Mrs. Wm. Lore of Granite City, IL), 
Charles, 16, and Helen, 8, of the home. Shortly after her marriage she was 
confirmed in the Lutheran Church and as long as health permitted she was active 
in all church and community affairs. The Backmans first established their home 
in St. Louis, later moving to Chicago, and six years ago to Cuba, MO. Last spring 
they moved near St. James, MO, where Mr. Backman operated a large registered 
Angus farm. Mrs. Backman had suffered from a serious heart condition and 
complications for several years but was always prone to overtax her strength. 
She had made plans for a family reunion Nov. 27, at the home of her sister, Mrs. 
Anna Manning of Jefferson City, celebrating Thanksgiving, the Backmans' 23rd 
wedding anniversary and Mr. Backman's birthday. Mrs. Backman had the love and 
respect of every community in which she lived. With the sterling qualities which 
characterize her family, her life was one of usefulness and blessing. This was 
reflected in the many expressions of sympathy that came from relatives and 
friends everywhere. Survivors, besides her husband and children, above 
mentioned, are two sisters, Mrs. Anna Manning, Jefferson City, and Miss Ruby 
Tubbesing, Kansas City; two brothers, Garrett Tubbesing, Blairstown, and Henry 
Tubbesing, Clinton. A sister, Mrs. Audie Childers, died a few months ago. Funeral 
services were held at St. John's Lutheran Church at St. James at 1:30 p.m., Nov. 
23, with burial in the Masonic Cemetery there. A lovely musical number for the 
service was given by a prize winning teenage choir from Cuba of which Charles 
Backman had been a member. Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Tubbesing, Mr. and Mrs. Henry 
Tubbesing and daughter, Miss Gretchen, attended last rites. The two brothers and 
wives also drove to Rolla Thursday to see Mrs. Backman just before her death.

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