Services Held Tuesday for Edith Harsha
Mrs. Blaine (Edith) Harsha, 72, of Baxter, died Saturday, Oct. 20, at the Skiff Memorial Hospital in Newton [Iowa].
Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, October 23, at the Congregational United Church of Christ in Baxter [Iowa].
Dr. Harold Cooper, pastor of the church, conducted services. Burial was in The Restland Cemetery in Baxter [Iowa].
The organist was Jean Akins, and the soloist was Mrs. Robert Johnson.
Pallbearers were Myron Berry, Marvin Meyer, Louis Halter, Art McMahill, Graham Wallace, and Gearold Kielly (typed as written).
Memorial contributions may be left at the Boyd-Davis Funeral Home in Baxter [Iowa].
Survivors are her husband; five sons, Max of Livonia, Mo., William of Baxter, Gale of Kellogg [Iowa], Jim of Marshalltown [Iowa], and Mike of North Little Rock, Ark.; 20 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Also surviving are three sisters, Mabel Burch of Omaha, Neb., Nellie Gold of Bedford [Iowa], and Lois Stubbe of Baxter [Iowa]; and a brother, Bobby Munn of Bradenton, Fla.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her twin children, a boy and girl, four brothers and three sisters.
Mrs. Harsha had been employed in Newton at the Automatic Washer Co., and from 1951 until her retirement in December, 1974, at the Maytag Co.
The daughter of David and Ida Mae Loupee Munn, she was born March 13, 1912 in Nodaway County, Mo., and was educated in the Baxter area schools.
She was married March 16, 1931 in Bedford [Iowa]. The couple celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in March, 1981. ~ Newspaper unknown, possibly The Des Moines (IA) Register or The Newton (IA) Daily News.
Transcriber note: Her husband’s obituary has his first name spelled Blayne.