Obit: Pyatt, Eltha (1884 - 1964)

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Surnames: Pyatt, Stowe, Thorne, Dempsey

----Source: Owen Enterprise (Owen, Clark Co., Wis.) 12/24/1964

----Pyatt, Eltha (1884 - 1964)

HEART ATTACK FATAL TO MRS. CHARLES PYATT

One day after being stricken Mrs. Charles Pyatt succumbed to the effects of a heart attack on Thursday of last week. The day previous she became ill and was immediately rushed to Victory Memorial Hospital at Stanley where she passed away.

Mrs. Pyatt, a resident of Owen for the past 39 years, was 80 years and 11 months of age.

Funeral services were conducted at 2:00 o’clock Sunday afternoon, Dec. 20, from the First Congregational Church of Owen. The parish Pastor, Rev. Robert Goessling officiated with burial being made in the family lot at riverside Cemetery. Six grandsons served as pallbearers.

Born January 18, 1884, in the Town of Beaver, Clark County, Eltha Stowe, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Louis Stowe, she spent her early years in this community. On October 8, 1901, she and the late Charles Pyatt were united in marriage in the Town of Beaver where they farmed for 24 years before retiring from the farm and moving to Owen in 1925.

Since that time Mrs. Pyatt had been an active member of the Congregational Church and active in it’s ladies aid activities.

Her passing is mourned by a son, Clarence, of Owen; two daughters, Mrs. Charles (Bernice) Thorne, rural Owen, and Mrs. Harry (Myrtle) Dempsey, Owen; three brothers, Albert Stowe, Washington, Earl Stowe, rural Loyal, and John Stowe, rural Unity, and eight grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren.

Her husband passed away in 1950.