DOLLIE E. ERVIN

DOLLIE E. ERVIN WAS BORN IN CLINTON COUNTY, IOWA, DECEMBER 22, 1856, AND DIED MARCH 12, 1924, AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER IN ST. JOSEPH, MO., AGED 67 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AND 21 DAYS.  SHE WAS MARRIED TO AMOS W. GUSTIN MARCH 18, 1880.  SHE IS BURIED JUST FORTY-FOUR YEARS FROM THE DATE OF HER MARRIAGE.  SHE LEAVES HER HUSBAND AND TWO DAUGHTERS, MRS. W. E. STOLCUP, OF LOS ANGELES, CA AND MRS. ELMER BOWMAN, OF ST. JOSEPH, MO. AND ONE GRANDSON, JOE BOWMAN, OF ST. JOSEPH, MO.  RALPHIE , A SON DIED IN 1885, AGED 2 YEARS, NINE MONTHS AND ANOTHER SON DIED IN INFANCY.  SHE ALSO LEAVES ONE BROTHER AND THREE SISTERS.  THE BROTHER, T.A. ERVIN, LIVES AT MILO, IOWA, MRS. HALL MACKEY AT BLOCKTON, IOWA AND FLORENCE WALKER AT LOS ANGELES AND MRS. BIRD OFFENHOUSER OF SEATTLE, WA., ALSO EIGHT NEPHEWS AND NIECES.  SHE WAS A LOVING MOTHER, A KIND NEIGHBOR AND WAS LOVED BY ALL WHO KNEW HER.  SHE HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH FOR NUMBER OF YEARS.  MR. AND MRS. GUSTIN SPENT THE WINTER IN CALIFORNIA AND HAD REACHED ST. JOSEPH ON THEIR WAY HOME WHEN SHE CONTRACTED PNEUMONIA AND DIED AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER. THE REMAINS WERE BROUGHT TO KELLERTON ON MONDAY EVENING AND THE FUNERAL SERVICE WAS HELD AT THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT 11 O’CLOCK TUESDAY FORENOON CONDUCTED BY THE REV. J.C. HARRIS AND INTERMENT WAS MADE IN MAPLE ROW CEMETERY.