Dessa Irene Pearce Keller was born in Macedonia, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. She is the daughter of Aaron Washington Pearce and Agnes Bolton. Her father was born in Ohio and her mother in Iowa.
Siblings: Merrill Edson, Myrtle Candace, Estella Kate, Ethel Grace, Laura Jane, Eva Louise, Mary-Ida.
She married Benjamin Aymer Keller in 1898 at Macedonia, Iowa. Ben was born in Licking Co., Ohio the son of Abraham Keller and Rebecca DeBolt.
Mother to: Vere Abraham, Lionel Pearce, Nada Leola, Irma Mabel, Ben Miles, and Richard Wayne.
They lived in Iowa, So. Dakota, Wisconsin and farmed in these places. Around 1922-25 they moved to Lincoln, Nebraska and lived there the remainder of their lives.
Dessa was proud of her Methodist faith. She was quiet, so very un-assuming, kind, loving, helpful, the best baker I ever knew and generous with her love and praise to all her family and friends. She is still so much in our hearts after all these years and greatly missed.
If, I could have one more day with anyone I ever knew..it would be with my Grams Dessa. She let me try on her false teeth when I was very young and laughed with me. She jumped rope with me at past 70 years old when her legs with swollen with pain, she baked me an angel food cake on every birthday, she always had candy in her pocket for me, and she always praised me, encouraged me, read and sang to me and made me feel like I was the most important person in her world. I know your watching...I love you..and wish I could once more give you a huge bouquet of pink carnations.
Siblings: Merrill Edson, Myrtle Candace, Estella Kate, Ethel Grace, Laura Jane, Eva Louise, Mary-Ida.
She married Benjamin Aymer Keller in 1898 at Macedonia, Iowa. Ben was born in Licking Co., Ohio the son of Abraham Keller and Rebecca DeBolt.
Mother to: Vere Abraham, Lionel Pearce, Nada Leola, Irma Mabel, Ben Miles, and Richard Wayne.
They lived in Iowa, So. Dakota, Wisconsin and farmed in these places. Around 1922-25 they moved to Lincoln, Nebraska and lived there the remainder of their lives.
Dessa was proud of her Methodist faith. She was quiet, so very un-assuming, kind, loving, helpful, the best baker I ever knew and generous with her love and praise to all her family and friends. She is still so much in our hearts after all these years and greatly missed.
If, I could have one more day with anyone I ever knew..it would be with my Grams Dessa. She let me try on her false teeth when I was very young and laughed with me. She jumped rope with me at past 70 years old when her legs with swollen with pain, she baked me an angel food cake on every birthday, she always had candy in her pocket for me, and she always praised me, encouraged me, read and sang to me and made me feel like I was the most important person in her world. I know your watching...I love you..and wish I could once more give you a huge bouquet of pink carnations.
Dessa Irene Pearce Keller was born in Macedonia, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. She is the daughter of Aaron Washington Pearce and Agnes Bolton. Her father was born in Ohio and her mother in Iowa.
Siblings: Merrill Edson, Myrtle Candace, Estella Kate, Ethel Grace, Laura Jane, Eva Louise, Mary-Ida.
She married Benjamin Aymer Keller in 1898 at Macedonia, Iowa. Ben was born in Licking Co., Ohio the son of Abraham Keller and Rebecca DeBolt.
Mother to: Vere Abraham, Lionel Pearce, Nada Leola, Irma Mabel, Ben Miles, and Richard Wayne.
They lived in Iowa, So. Dakota, Wisconsin and farmed in these places. Around 1922-25 they moved to Lincoln, Nebraska and lived there the remainder of their lives.
Dessa was proud of her Methodist faith. She was quiet, so very un-assuming, kind, loving, helpful, the best baker I ever knew and generous with her love and praise to all her family and friends. She is still so much in our hearts after all these years and greatly missed.
If, I could have one more day with anyone I ever knew..it would be with my Grams Dessa. She let me try on her false teeth when I was very young and laughed with me. She jumped rope with me at past 70 years old when her legs with swollen with pain, she baked me an angel food cake on every birthday, she always had candy in her pocket for me, and she always praised me, encouraged me, read and sang to me and made me feel like I was the most important person in her world. I know your watching...I love you..and wish I could once more give you a huge bouquet of pink carnations.
Siblings: Merrill Edson, Myrtle Candace, Estella Kate, Ethel Grace, Laura Jane, Eva Louise, Mary-Ida.
She married Benjamin Aymer Keller in 1898 at Macedonia, Iowa. Ben was born in Licking Co., Ohio the son of Abraham Keller and Rebecca DeBolt.
Mother to: Vere Abraham, Lionel Pearce, Nada Leola, Irma Mabel, Ben Miles, and Richard Wayne.
They lived in Iowa, So. Dakota, Wisconsin and farmed in these places. Around 1922-25 they moved to Lincoln, Nebraska and lived there the remainder of their lives.
Dessa was proud of her Methodist faith. She was quiet, so very un-assuming, kind, loving, helpful, the best baker I ever knew and generous with her love and praise to all her family and friends. She is still so much in our hearts after all these years and greatly missed.
If, I could have one more day with anyone I ever knew..it would be with my Grams Dessa. She let me try on her false teeth when I was very young and laughed with me. She jumped rope with me at past 70 years old when her legs with swollen with pain, she baked me an angel food cake on every birthday, she always had candy in her pocket for me, and she always praised me, encouraged me, read and sang to me and made me feel like I was the most important person in her world. I know your watching...I love you..and wish I could once more give you a huge bouquet of pink carnations.
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