1900 - 1994 (94 years)
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Name |
Zella Izetta Olive Ward Jacques |
Born |
31 May 1900 |
Adrian, Jackson County, Kansas |
Gender |
Female |
Died |
13 Nov 1994 |
Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas |
Buried |
Memorial Park Cemetery (Penwell-Gabel Cemetery), Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas |
Person ID |
I4175 |
Rossville |
Last Modified |
23 Apr 2018 |
Father |
George Washington Ward |
Mother |
Edith May Patterson Ward, b. St. Clere, Pottawatomie County, Kansas , d. 30 May 1967, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas |
Married |
12 Jan 1897 |
St. Clere, Pottawatomie County, Kansas |
Documents |
| Anniversary- Ward, George and Edith To have 60th anniversary reception
[Caption: Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Ward]
Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Ward will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary next Sunday, January 13, with open house at the Community Center. No invitations are being sent but friends are invited to call between 2 and 5 p.m.
Mr. and Mrs. Ward were married January 12, 1897 at the home of her parents near St. Clere, Kansas. The first 27 years of their marriage was spent on a farm near Adrian, Kansas. They came to Rossville four years ago from Silver Lake when Mr. Ward retired from farming. Their Golden Wedding anniversary was celebrated at their farm home north of Silver Lake where they had spent 34 happy years.
The couple has one daughter, Mrs. Zella Jacques of Rossville, one granddaughter, and four great grandchildren. He is 82 years of age and she is 78.
[From 10 Jan 1957] |
Family ID |
F4637 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Documents |
| Obituary- Jacques, Zella 1 Zella Ward Jacques
ROSSVILLE — Zella Izetta Olive Ward Jacques, 94, Rossville, died Sunday, Nov. 13, 1994, at a rest home here.
She was born May 31, 1900, in the Adrian community near Delia, the daughter of George Washington and Edith May Patterson Ward. She was graduated from Silver Lake High School in 1921. She taught in Menoken a year before she returned to Silver Lake where she was a substitute teacher.
She operated a beauty shop several years and was a foster grandparent at Kansas Neurological Institute in Topeka from 1969 to 1984.
Mrs. Jacques was a former member of Order of Eastern Star.
She was married to Fred Lewelling Jacques Feb. 10, 1923, in Kansas City, Mo. He died in 1953. A daughter, Freda Ethel Mooney, died Dec. 4, 1978.
Survivors include a grandson, Fred Alfred Mooney, Hutchinson; and three granddaughters, Lynda Kay Ludlum, Topeka, Romona Jean Brawner, Kansas City, Mo., and Zella Joanne Peterson, Eudora; nine great-grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. today at the United Methodist Church in Rossville. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Topeka. Mrs. Jacques will lie in state from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. today at Piper-Verschelden Funeral Home in St. Marys and after 12:30 p.m. at the church.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Rossville Senior Citizens Center.
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| Obituary- Jacques, Zella 2 Zella Jacques
Zella Izetta Olive Ward Jacques, 94, Rossville, died Sunday, Nov. 13, 1994, at the Rossville Valley Manor. She was born May 31, 1900, in Adrian, the daughter of George Washington and Edit May Patterson Ward. She was married to Fred Lewelling Jacques Feb. 10, 1923, in Kansas City, MO. He died in 1953.
She graduated from Silver Lake High School in 1921. After graduation, she took the state boards for her teaching certificate and taught one year at Menoken. She moved back to Silver Lake and began substituting there. After she was married, she attended beauty school in Topeka and opened her own beauty shop. IN 1969, she joined the foster grandparent program at Kansas Neurological Institute, where she was a foster grandparent for 15 years.
Mrs. Jacques was a former member of the Order of the Eastern Star.
Survivors include four grandchildren: Lynda Kay Ludlum, Topeka, Romona Jean Brawner, Kansas City, MO, Zella Joanne Peterson, Eudora, and Fred Alfred Mooney, Hutchinson; nine great-grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a daughter, Freda Ethel Mooney on Dec. 4, 1978.
Her funeral service is at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday (today) at Rossville United Methodist Church. Interment is at Memorial Park Cemetery, Topeka.
Memorial contributions may be made to Rossville Senior Citizen Center and sent in care of Piper-Verschelden Funeral Home., St. Marys, KS. 66536.
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