12/14/1965
Funeral services for Esther Cleveland, who died Dec. 14, 1965 were held Dec. 16 from
Pleasantville Christian church with Rev. Carrol Johnson officiating.
Burial was
in Pleasantville cemetery. Pallbearers were Ronnie Vinson, Galen Vinson, Lawrence
Woolsey, Jimmy Richards, Mike Lyon and Tommy Lyon. Mrs. George Richards was organist.
Esther Lorraine, daughter of Oliver and Minnie Buhman Vinson, was born May 20, 1912
in Warren county.
June 23, 1936 she was united in marriage to Rev. A. Vern
Cleveland, who died while a prisoner of war in December, 1944. She was a member
of Sterling Christian church, Austin, Minn. Her father, a sister Ruth Anna, and
a brother George Howard preceded her in death.
Surviving are a stepson R. Wayne
Cleveland and family, Rock Falls, Ill.; her mother Mrs. Minnie Vinson, Pleasantville;
four brothers, Raymond and Robert; Knoxville, James of Indianola, and Arthur,
Des Moines; six sisters, Mrs. Alice Woolsey, Gladbrook, Mrs. Edna Ferree, Waukeshaw,
Wis., Mrs. Darlene Bevans, Pella, Mrs. Hazel Richards, Mrs. Frances Lyon and
Mrs. Mary Burns, Pleasantville.