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Bessie Marie Preston Bleakney

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Birth	:	4 Aug 1910
Death	:	26 Jul 1998
Burial	:	Cambridge Cemetery and Crematorium, East London, Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
Coordinate	:	-32.9827700, 27.8766730
Plot	:	Section 1, Lot 167, Block 31
Description	:	NEWTON — Bessie Marie Bleakney, 87, of 400 E. Eighth St. S., Apt. 7, died Sunday (July 26, 1998) of heart failure at Skiff Medical Center, Newton. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Reese Funeral Home, 302 N. Second Ave. E., Newton, with the Rev. Daryl Pals of St. Luke United Methodist Church officiating. Burial will take place at Newton Union Cemetery. Visitation will begin at noon Tuesday and the family will greet friends from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorials may be directed to St. Luke United Methodist Church, Newton. Bessie Marie Bleakney was born Aug.... Read More	NEWTON — Bessie Marie Bleakney, 87, of 400 E. Eighth St. S., Apt. 7, died Sunday (July 26, 1998) of heart failure at Skiff Medical Center, Newton. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Reese Funeral Home, 302 N. Second Ave. E., Newton, with the Rev. Daryl Pals of St. Luke United Methodist Church officiating. Burial will take place at Newton Union Cemetery. Visitation will begin at noon Tuesday and the family will greet friends from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorials may be directed to St. Luke United Methodist Church, Newton. Bessie Marie Bleakney was born Aug. 4, 1910, in rural Newton to George C. and Minnie K Broderson Preston. She graduated from Newton High School in 1928. She married Ernest LeRoy Bleakney and was a homemaker working on the farm with her husband. She also taught in rural schools in Jasper County. Bessie was a life-long resident of Jasper county. She lived in the Newton area 55 years and in Kellogg for eight years. She was a member of Newton No. 3 Homemakers and St. Luke United Methodist Church, Newton. She is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Robert and Karen Bleakney, Newton, and John and Nicki Bleakney, Mason City; one daughter and son-in-law, Kathryn "Katie" and Harry Jones, Newton; one sister, Mardell Allgood, Oskaloosa; nine grandchildren; and several great- and stepgreat-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband and three brothers.

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Family Members:

Parent

Wilhelmina Katherina “Minnie” Brodersen Preston

(1874 - 1957)

Spouse

Ernest Leroy Bleakney

(1908 - 1982)

Siblings

Carl Bane Preston

(1905 - 1997)

Lewis Frederick Preston

(1906 - 1984)

Mardell Lucille Preston Allgood

(1915 - 2013)

Children

Robert Franklin Bleakney

(1937 - 2008)

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