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Laura Belle Newton Missman
1889 - 1919
- Mrs. I. E. Missman
Laura Belle Newton was born on Oct. 11, 1889, on a farm near Powersville,
Iowa, and grew to young womanhood in that vicinity.
After completing the work of the rural schools of the county she attended
the Iowa State Teachers' college at Cedar Falls. She taught two years in
the rural schools of Floyd county, and in the fall of 1910 she went to
Klemme, Iowa, where she taught the intermediate department of the Klemme
schools and met Irving E. Missman, who was principal of the school at that
time, and to whom she was married August 14, 1912, at the home of her
parents, near Charles City, Iowa.
After living three years in the western part of the state, where Mr.
Missman was engaged in school work, they moved to their present home nine
miles south of Charles City. Mrs. Missman united with the M. E. church at
Klemme, Iowa, in the fall of 1910, and is a member of the O. E. S. at
Plover, Iowa.
Her splendid counsel will be long remembered by the brothers who now mourn
for her, and her death leaves a bitter sorrow in the heart of her father,
to whom she was greatly devoted.
Mrs. Missman was stricken with influenza on Monday, Dec. 23, and although
everything possible was done for her, she passed away at four o'clock
Sunday afternoon, Dec 29, at the age of twenty-nine years, two months and
eighteen days.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Missman leaves to mourn her passing two little
daughters, Alice and Ruth, her father, John I. Newton of Charles City, and
three brothers, Williard and Merrill of Charles City, and Harold, who is
in the U.S. Cavalry, stationed at Hachita, N.M.
Funeral services were conducted from her late home at Powersville, by Rev.
G. A. Hess of the Christian church of Charles City, and she was laid to
rest beside her mother at Pleasant Grove cemetery on New Year's Day.
source: Arrow, Rolfe, Iowa, 16 Jan 1919, page 8, column 3
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- Allison, Jan. 2 - O. F. Missman received a telephone
message announcing the death of his brother's wife, Mrs. Irving Missman
near Powersville, Floyd county.
Death was the result of influenza. Deceased is survived by the husband and
two small children. Mrs. Missman was a daughter of John Newton, Charles
City.-
source: Courier, Waterloo, Iowa, 2 Jan 1919, page 9, column 4
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Laura Belle Newton Missman: born 11 Oct 1889 - died 29
Dec 1918
Grave marker at Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Powersville, Floyd County, Iowa
Daughter of John Isaac Newton, born 1863 - died 1934 and Jessie Powers, born
1870 - died 1915
Wife of: Irving E. Missman, born 1887 -
died 1962
Mother of:
Alice Marguerite Missman Renick (1913–2005)
source: Find-A-Grave, memorial# 178829069
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