Minnie Lauretta Carithers 1875-1950

CARITHERS, BAIRD, WALKINSHAW, SEXTON, KERNS, ARMSTRONG

Posted By: deb (email)
Date: 5/28/2017 at 11:01:18

MORNING SUN WOMAN DIES LAST THURSDAY

Mrs. Minnie Carithers, 74, a life resident of the Morning Sun community died at the Burlington hospital at 11:45 am Thursday where she was taken June 24 following a fall at her home when her left hip was fractured. She was the former Minnie Baird, daughter of James and Mary Ann Walkinshaw Baird and was born on a farm in the Sharon vicinity August 24, 1875, where she grew up. She was married to James Carithers August 14, 1895, who died in 1943.

She is survived by three daughters: Mrs. Clark Sexton, Oakville; Mrs. Lester Kerns Blairstown; Mrs. D. T. Armstrong, Morning Sun; one son, William, Galesburg, Illinois; ten grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Blanche Meyers, Ontario, California, Mrs. J. P. Robertson, Morning Sun; four brothers; Ralph and Oscar Baird, Wapello, Dr. Oliver Baird, Tarkio, Missouri; and M. W. Baird, Morning Sun.

Two brothers are dead. Funeral services were held Saturday at 2:00 p.m. from the Reformed Presbyterian Church of which she was a member. The Reverend H. C. Patterson officiated and burial was in Elmwood* cemetery.

* Burial at the Sharon Reformed Presbyterian Church Cemetery beside her husband.]

The Wapello Republican, 6 Jul 1950