Bedford Times-Press (Bedford, Iowa), Thursday, December 7, 1967
Last Rites Held November 27 For Mrs. Chas. Martin
Funeral services for Mrs. Charles G. [ray] Martin, 95, long time Bedford resident, were held Monday, Nov. 27, at the Madison street Shum-Novinger Funeral Home here conducted by Rev. John D. Kerr. Mrs. Martin died at the Clarinda Municipal Hospital November 23, 1967 after three week's illness. Interment was at Fairview Cemetery, Bedford.
Mehetabel Taylor was born on Feb. 13, 1872, on a farm north and east of the old Lexington Cemetery. She was one of nine children born to Martha Ann Miller and Robert A. [tkinson] Taylor.
She grew up on the farm, and later her family moved to Bedford. She attended grade and high school here and started teaching country school at the age of 18 years. By this means she put herself through college, attending Drake University and State Teachers College at Cedar Falls. After graduating from this latter school, she taught in the Council Bluffs school system from 1897 to 1907.
In 1907 she was united to Charles G. [ray] Martin of Bedford to which union was born one son, Charles Jr. in 1909.
Her husband preceded her in death in 1928. She lived from 1907 to 1967 in her home in Bedford, only in June of this year moving to the Pearl Terrace Manor Nursing Home after a fall in May.
She was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Bedford and the Order of the Eastern Star, being a 50-year and more member of that order.
She was a person of strong character, intense determination, and great mental alertness. This latter characteristic continued all her life and up and into her last illness.
She leaves one son, Charles; two sisters, Mrs. Lottie Gooding of Bedford and Mrs. Frank W. Hart of Ft. Collins, Colorado; and a brother, Charles Taylor of Bedford; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by a sister, Mary Wickersham of Greeley, Colo., and three brothers, Lute B. [ent] Taylor, Robert A. [tkinson] Taylor Jr., and Alfred A. [delbert] Taylor.
Last Rites Held November 27 For Mrs. Chas. Martin
Funeral services for Mrs. Charles G. [ray] Martin, 95, long time Bedford resident, were held Monday, Nov. 27, at the Madison street Shum-Novinger Funeral Home here conducted by Rev. John D. Kerr. Mrs. Martin died at the Clarinda Municipal Hospital November 23, 1967 after three week's illness. Interment was at Fairview Cemetery, Bedford.
Mehetabel Taylor was born on Feb. 13, 1872, on a farm north and east of the old Lexington Cemetery. She was one of nine children born to Martha Ann Miller and Robert A. [tkinson] Taylor.
She grew up on the farm, and later her family moved to Bedford. She attended grade and high school here and started teaching country school at the age of 18 years. By this means she put herself through college, attending Drake University and State Teachers College at Cedar Falls. After graduating from this latter school, she taught in the Council Bluffs school system from 1897 to 1907.
In 1907 she was united to Charles G. [ray] Martin of Bedford to which union was born one son, Charles Jr. in 1909.
Her husband preceded her in death in 1928. She lived from 1907 to 1967 in her home in Bedford, only in June of this year moving to the Pearl Terrace Manor Nursing Home after a fall in May.
She was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Bedford and the Order of the Eastern Star, being a 50-year and more member of that order.
She was a person of strong character, intense determination, and great mental alertness. This latter characteristic continued all her life and up and into her last illness.
She leaves one son, Charles; two sisters, Mrs. Lottie Gooding of Bedford and Mrs. Frank W. Hart of Ft. Collins, Colorado; and a brother, Charles Taylor of Bedford; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by a sister, Mary Wickersham of Greeley, Colo., and three brothers, Lute B. [ent] Taylor, Robert A. [tkinson] Taylor Jr., and Alfred A. [delbert] Taylor.
Bedford Times-Press (Bedford, Iowa), Thursday, December 7, 1967
Last Rites Held November 27 For Mrs. Chas. Martin
Funeral services for Mrs. Charles G. [ray] Martin, 95, long time Bedford resident, were held Monday, Nov. 27, at the Madison street Shum-Novinger Funeral Home here conducted by Rev. John D. Kerr. Mrs. Martin died at the Clarinda Municipal Hospital November 23, 1967 after three week's illness. Interment was at Fairview Cemetery, Bedford.
Mehetabel Taylor was born on Feb. 13, 1872, on a farm north and east of the old Lexington Cemetery. She was one of nine children born to Martha Ann Miller and Robert A. [tkinson] Taylor.
She grew up on the farm, and later her family moved to Bedford. She attended grade and high school here and started teaching country school at the age of 18 years. By this means she put herself through college, attending Drake University and State Teachers College at Cedar Falls. After graduating from this latter school, she taught in the Council Bluffs school system from 1897 to 1907.
In 1907 she was united to Charles G. [ray] Martin of Bedford to which union was born one son, Charles Jr. in 1909.
Her husband preceded her in death in 1928. She lived from 1907 to 1967 in her home in Bedford, only in June of this year moving to the Pearl Terrace Manor Nursing Home after a fall in May.
She was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Bedford and the Order of the Eastern Star, being a 50-year and more member of that order.
She was a person of strong character, intense determination, and great mental alertness. This latter characteristic continued all her life and up and into her last illness.
She leaves one son, Charles; two sisters, Mrs. Lottie Gooding of Bedford and Mrs. Frank W. Hart of Ft. Collins, Colorado; and a brother, Charles Taylor of Bedford; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by a sister, Mary Wickersham of Greeley, Colo., and three brothers, Lute B. [ent] Taylor, Robert A. [tkinson] Taylor Jr., and Alfred A. [delbert] Taylor.
Last Rites Held November 27 For Mrs. Chas. Martin
Funeral services for Mrs. Charles G. [ray] Martin, 95, long time Bedford resident, were held Monday, Nov. 27, at the Madison street Shum-Novinger Funeral Home here conducted by Rev. John D. Kerr. Mrs. Martin died at the Clarinda Municipal Hospital November 23, 1967 after three week's illness. Interment was at Fairview Cemetery, Bedford.
Mehetabel Taylor was born on Feb. 13, 1872, on a farm north and east of the old Lexington Cemetery. She was one of nine children born to Martha Ann Miller and Robert A. [tkinson] Taylor.
She grew up on the farm, and later her family moved to Bedford. She attended grade and high school here and started teaching country school at the age of 18 years. By this means she put herself through college, attending Drake University and State Teachers College at Cedar Falls. After graduating from this latter school, she taught in the Council Bluffs school system from 1897 to 1907.
In 1907 she was united to Charles G. [ray] Martin of Bedford to which union was born one son, Charles Jr. in 1909.
Her husband preceded her in death in 1928. She lived from 1907 to 1967 in her home in Bedford, only in June of this year moving to the Pearl Terrace Manor Nursing Home after a fall in May.
She was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Bedford and the Order of the Eastern Star, being a 50-year and more member of that order.
She was a person of strong character, intense determination, and great mental alertness. This latter characteristic continued all her life and up and into her last illness.
She leaves one son, Charles; two sisters, Mrs. Lottie Gooding of Bedford and Mrs. Frank W. Hart of Ft. Collins, Colorado; and a brother, Charles Taylor of Bedford; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by a sister, Mary Wickersham of Greeley, Colo., and three brothers, Lute B. [ent] Taylor, Robert A. [tkinson] Taylor Jr., and Alfred A. [delbert] Taylor.
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