Cora Belle Butterfield Allen (1891-1973)

Cora Belle Butterfield Allen

Birth

4 Dec 1891

Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa, USA

Death

15 Aug 1973 (aged 81)

Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa, USA

Burial

Quasqueton Cemetery

Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa, USA Add to Map

Plot

Lot 263 Addition 1

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Cora Belle Butterfield was born the daughter of Reuben Justus Butterfield and Alberta Louise Peyton. They are buried in Walker, Iowa. Cora was married to Sumner Sherman Allen on February 12, 1913 in Walker, Linn county, Iowa. He is buried in this cemetery. They were parents of ten children and adopted her nephew, Maynard John Allen who was the son of Rita Butterfield.

~0bit~Funeral services for Mrs. Cora Belle Allen, 81, who died at 6:55 a.m. Wednesday in Woodlawn Covalescent Home of complications of advanced age will be Friday afternoon at the Church of the Nazarene in Cedar Rapids. Mrs. Allen was born in Quasqueton, Iowa, on December 4, 1891, the daughter of Reuben and Alberta Peyton Butterield. She was married to Sumner Sherman Allen on February 12, 1913, in Walker. Cora was an employe of Wilson Packing in Cedar Rapids for 15 years, retiring on a disability in 1953 and prior to that time had resided in Cedar Rapids for 35 years. Mrs. Allen is survived by one son, Paul Allen of Ankeny; eight daughters, Mrs. Walter Shields, 410 West Ninth St., Mrs. Norma Mitchell of Cedar Rapids, Mrs. Paul Ward of Boone, Mrs. Bernard Blake of San Diego, California, Mrs. Ed Dudek of Spingville, Mrs. Charles Reed of Albuqerque, New Mexico, Mrs. Robert Thomas of Tama, and Mrs. Carl Myrmo of Cedar Rapids; three brothers, Clarence Justin Butterfield of Independence, Gerald Peyton Butterfield of Cedar Rapids, Kenneth John Butterfield of Anamosa; 33 grandchildren, 31 great-grand-children and one great-great grandson. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, one son Maynard John Allen, one daughter, Bernadine Allen, one sister Rita Steele, and one brother, Willard John Butterfield.