Announcement

Mrs. Iva Daum, 68, died at her home in Liberty Center Thursday after an illness of six months. Mrs. Daum was a member of the Methodist church and a former president of the WSCS of the church. She was a past worthy matron of the Eastern Star and past noble grand of the Rebekah lodge.

She is survived by her husband, C. I. Daum; daughter, Mrs. Lucille Belleville, Bowling Green; sister, Mrs. Arthur Spiess, Liberty Center, and two grandchildren.

Services were held at the Liberty Center Methodist church at 2 p.m. Monday, the Rev. David L. Eichar officiating. Burial was in Young’s cemetery.

Obituary

Iva Fay, daughter of Frank L. and Ida J. Hahn, was born in Liberty township, Henry county, O., April 23, 1886. Her childhood life was spent with her parents on their farm from which she attended country school and the Liberty Center high school. In the spring of 1905 she graduated and took up the work of telephone operator at the Mutual Telephone Co., Liberty Center. She served this company faithfully until her marriage with Charles Irvin Daum on Aug. 3, 1910.

They spent all their married life in Liberty Center except for seventeen years spent in Hamler, O., at which place she also won many friends.

She united with the Methodist church in early life and always was with her husband, active in church work. She held various offices in the Woman’s Society of Christian Service and the Philathean class. She was affiliated with the Rebekah and Eastern Star organizations, being a Past Matron, Past Noble Grand, and a district representative of the Rebekahs. To these and to her home she gave of her best in life.

In January of 1954 she was stricken with that disease which proved fatal on May 27, 1954. At her departure she leaves to carry on: her husband, a daughter, Mrs. Lucille Belleville, and husband; two granddaughters, Celia Jeanne and Charlene; a sister, Mrs. Vivian Spiess, and a number of nieces and nephews and a host of friends.

Services were conducted from the Methodist church, Liberty Center [cut off].