Final Rites Held Here June 11 for Alta Chamberlin, 94
Funeral services for Mrs. Leslie L. (Alta) Chamberlin of Mission Hills, Calif, were held June 11 in Shum-Novinger Funeral Home in Bedford with Carl Cummings officiating. Mrs. Chamberlin died in her home in Mission Hills June 7, 1977. Interment was in the Mausoleum, Fairview Cemetery, Bedford.
Alta Mae, daughter of Pam and Elizabeth Lovitt, was born July 17, 1882, in the Blue Grove Community near Lenox, Iowa, and died at her home in Mission Hills, California, June 7, 1977. As a young woman she attended Drake University where she studied music, and was later engaged in evangelistic singing for a number of years. On October 16, 1913, she was married to Leslie L. Chamberlin at Gravity, Iowa. They lived on the Chamberlin home farm until the untimely death of her husband in September 1924. After a time she and her daughter Thelma went to California where she made her home until her death.
She is survived by her only child, Thelma, and her son-in-law, Henry Moore of Mission Hills, California; three sisters, Bird Drain and Flo Grimm of Lenox, Iowa, Hazel Neeley of Glendale, California; two sisters-in-law, Ethel Lovitt of Portland, Oregon, and Alice May of Des Moines, Iowa; one brother-in-law, Budd Chamberlin of Bedford, Iowa; and many beloved nieces and nephews.
Her concern for people and love for her Church were lifelong qualities which endeared her to her family and everyone who knew her.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Moore, Mission Hills, Calif. and Mrs. Hazel Neeley of Glendale, Calif. were here for the services.
Final Rites Held Here June 11 for Alta Chamberlin, 94
Funeral services for Mrs. Leslie L. (Alta) Chamberlin of Mission Hills, Calif, were held June 11 in Shum-Novinger Funeral Home in Bedford with Carl Cummings officiating. Mrs. Chamberlin died in her home in Mission Hills June 7, 1977. Interment was in the Mausoleum, Fairview Cemetery, Bedford.
Alta Mae, daughter of Pam and Elizabeth Lovitt, was born July 17, 1882, in the Blue Grove Community near Lenox, Iowa, and died at her home in Mission Hills, California, June 7, 1977. As a young woman she attended Drake University where she studied music, and was later engaged in evangelistic singing for a number of years. On October 16, 1913, she was married to Leslie L. Chamberlin at Gravity, Iowa. They lived on the Chamberlin home farm until the untimely death of her husband in September 1924. After a time she and her daughter Thelma went to California where she made her home until her death.
She is survived by her only child, Thelma, and her son-in-law, Henry Moore of Mission Hills, California; three sisters, Bird Drain and Flo Grimm of Lenox, Iowa, Hazel Neeley of Glendale, California; two sisters-in-law, Ethel Lovitt of Portland, Oregon, and Alice May of Des Moines, Iowa; one brother-in-law, Budd Chamberlin of Bedford, Iowa; and many beloved nieces and nephews.
Her concern for people and love for her Church were lifelong qualities which endeared her to her family and everyone who knew her.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Moore, Mission Hills, Calif. and Mrs. Hazel Neeley of Glendale, Calif. were here for the services.
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