Grand Island Daily Independent 3 Dec 1979
Mrs. Elsie S. Bellamy, 86, of Cairo died Friday evening at a Grand Island nursing home.
Services were Monday afternoon at Apfel Funeral Home in Cairo. The Rev. Bruce Matthews officiated. Burial was in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery at Cairo.
Pallbearers were Rober Veeder, Jack Hadenfeldt, Amos Boshart Jr., Stuart Mieth, Gerald Luhn and Lawrence Stoeger. Apfel Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.
Mrs. Bellamy was born April 1, 1893 at Boelus, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Koehler Whitefoot. She attended Boelus schools. When she was 18 she moved to Cairo and worked in a grocery store.
On Nov. 12, 1913, she married Bert H. Bellamy at Grand Island. They farmed near Cairo until May 1978 when they moved to a Grand Island nursing home.
Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Mrs. Dewey Church of Ciro; two sons, Elmer and George, both of Cairo; four grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; four sisters, Mary Gallagher of Grand Island, Edna Deeds of Grand Island, Fern Boesen of Boelus and Frieda Bondegard of Lodgepole, and two brothers, Herbert Whitefoot of Ft. Smith, Ark., and Delbert Whitefoot of Junction City, Kan.
She was preceded in death by two sisters and eight brothers.
Grand Island Daily Independent 3 Dec 1979
Mrs. Elsie S. Bellamy, 86, of Cairo died Friday evening at a Grand Island nursing home.
Services were Monday afternoon at Apfel Funeral Home in Cairo. The Rev. Bruce Matthews officiated. Burial was in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery at Cairo.
Pallbearers were Rober Veeder, Jack Hadenfeldt, Amos Boshart Jr., Stuart Mieth, Gerald Luhn and Lawrence Stoeger. Apfel Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.
Mrs. Bellamy was born April 1, 1893 at Boelus, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Koehler Whitefoot. She attended Boelus schools. When she was 18 she moved to Cairo and worked in a grocery store.
On Nov. 12, 1913, she married Bert H. Bellamy at Grand Island. They farmed near Cairo until May 1978 when they moved to a Grand Island nursing home.
Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Mrs. Dewey Church of Ciro; two sons, Elmer and George, both of Cairo; four grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; four sisters, Mary Gallagher of Grand Island, Edna Deeds of Grand Island, Fern Boesen of Boelus and Frieda Bondegard of Lodgepole, and two brothers, Herbert Whitefoot of Ft. Smith, Ark., and Delbert Whitefoot of Junction City, Kan.
She was preceded in death by two sisters and eight brothers.
Family Members
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George Henry Whitefoot
1891–1947
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Edna Augusta Whitefoot Deeds
1892–1980
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Alice Elizabeth Whitefoot
1894–1895
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Elmer John Whitefoot
1895–1905
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Harry Albert Whitefoot Sr
1896–1960
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Mary Matilda Whitefoot Urwiller Gallagher
1898–1992
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Ernest Frederick Whitefoot
1899–1952
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Ella May Whitefoot Veeder
1901–1971
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Edward Willard Whitefoot
1903–1969
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Richard Frances Whitefoot
1904–1958
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Frieda Leona Whitefoot Bondegard
1905–1982
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Henry Arthur "Hennie" Whitefoot
1906–1960
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Fern Amelia Whitefoot Boesen
1908–1980
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Howard Robert Whitefoot
1910–1975
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Infant Son Whitefoot
1912–1912
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Herbert Harold Whitefoot
1914–1982
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Delbert Daniel Whitefoot
1918–1993
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