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Ella <I>Howdeshell</I> Cease

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Ella Howdeshell Cease

Birth
Cherry Valley, Winnebago County, Illinois, USA
Death
1945 (aged 90–91)
Burial
Nashua, Chickasaw County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block 99
Memorial ID
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A clipping from 30 Nov 1922 Nashua Reporter says Mr. and Mrs. Lee Howdeshell of Minneapolis arrived Tuesday to visit his sisters, Mrs. Ella Cease and Mrs. Will Perkins.
The Nashua Reporter (Nashua, Iowa); 30 Nov 1922, Thu. Page 10
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Funeral services for Mrs. Ella Cease, 91, who died of complications incident to advanced age at 4:30 p.m. Saturday at the home of her niece, Mrs. L. W. Turner, 1020 Knoll Avenue, will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Chenoweth Funeral Home, Nashua, with Rev. James Bird, pastor of Nashua Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.

Ella Howdeshell was a daughter of Jacob and Emily Howdeshell, on Aug. 28, 1854 in Cherry Valle, Ill. She moved with her parents to Charles City, Ia., as a young child, and shortly after, to Nashua.

She was apprenticed to a dressmaker in Waverly, Ia. when a young woman and was engaged in the dressmaking business herself later. She was married to John Cease in 1908. In April 1945, she came to Waterloo to live.

She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Emma Perkins, of 1012 Knoll, and a brother, Frank Howdeshell, Nashua.

Her husband, parents and three brothers: Will, Lee and Bert, preceded her in death.

The Courier (Waterloo, Iowa); 14 Oct 1945, Sun. Page 2
A clipping from 30 Nov 1922 Nashua Reporter says Mr. and Mrs. Lee Howdeshell of Minneapolis arrived Tuesday to visit his sisters, Mrs. Ella Cease and Mrs. Will Perkins.
The Nashua Reporter (Nashua, Iowa); 30 Nov 1922, Thu. Page 10
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Funeral services for Mrs. Ella Cease, 91, who died of complications incident to advanced age at 4:30 p.m. Saturday at the home of her niece, Mrs. L. W. Turner, 1020 Knoll Avenue, will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Chenoweth Funeral Home, Nashua, with Rev. James Bird, pastor of Nashua Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.

Ella Howdeshell was a daughter of Jacob and Emily Howdeshell, on Aug. 28, 1854 in Cherry Valle, Ill. She moved with her parents to Charles City, Ia., as a young child, and shortly after, to Nashua.

She was apprenticed to a dressmaker in Waverly, Ia. when a young woman and was engaged in the dressmaking business herself later. She was married to John Cease in 1908. In April 1945, she came to Waterloo to live.

She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Emma Perkins, of 1012 Knoll, and a brother, Frank Howdeshell, Nashua.

Her husband, parents and three brothers: Will, Lee and Bert, preceded her in death.

The Courier (Waterloo, Iowa); 14 Oct 1945, Sun. Page 2


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