Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameBeulah E. Aiken
Birth20 Jan 1887, Logan, Harrison Co, IA
Census8 Apr 1930, Carroll City, Carroll Co, IA
Memoroll#646, pg 5
Death5 Mar 1980, Lake City, Calhoun Co, IA
BurialCarroll City Cem, Carroll City, Carroll Co, IA
FatherHenry Aiken (1847-1926)
MotherMary Melissa Grice (1857-1926)
Misc. Notes
Listed as born in Calif in 1900 census, as born in Iowa in 1910, 1915, and 1930.
Listed as a saleslady in a clothing store, single and a lodger (40, IA) with the family of Katie Alspach in 1930.
May have later lived in Lansing, MI
[Obituary] Carroll Daily Times - 6 Mar 1980
Beulah Aiken, 93, former teacher and later an employee of a Carroll ready-to-wear store, died at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Mar. 5, at Shady Oaks Nursing Home to Lake City where she had resided for several years.
Funeral services will be conducted at ll:00 a.m. Saturday Mar. 8 at the Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home in Carroll with the Rev. Allan M. Peterson, pastor of the United Presbyterian church, officiating. Burial will be in the Carroll cemetery. Casket bearers will be LeRoy Bleret, Robert Aiken. Keith McCurdy, Elvin McCurdy, Edwin Dow and Roger Dow. Mrs. K.K. Holley will be organist. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Friday.
Surviving are two sisters-in-law: Mrs. Rodney Aiken, Lohrville, and Mrs. Lester Aiken, Waco, Tex.; several nieces and nephews, including Mrs. LeRoy (Reva) Bleret, Wall Lake, who looked after Miss Aiken in her later years.
Miss Aiken was born at Logan, Iowa, Jan. 29, 1887, a daughter of Henry and Mary Melissa Grice Aiken. The family moved to Carroll in the spring of 1893. Miss Aiken graduated from Carroll High School in 1906 and attended the University of Iowa, Iowa City, for two years. She taught school in Carroll for two years and then returned to the University of Iowa where she received a B.A. degree in 1911. She then taught in high schools at Rolfe and Algona and supervised a biology laboratory for two years at Morningside College, Sioux City.
In later years, she was a saleslady and buyer for a Carroll ready-to-wear store. She was a member of the United Presbyterian church, the Presbyterian Guild, the Order of Eastern Star in which she served as Electa for two years; the Wa-Tan-Ye club, of which she was a past president and for many years club historian.
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