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Myrtle Martha Shepherd Gaskill

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Birth	:	24 Jan 1871 Winterset, Madison County, Iowa, USA
Death	:	12 Feb 1950 Milton, Van Buren County, Iowa, USA
Burial	:	Villisca Cemetery, Villisca, Montgomery County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.9389000, -94.9747009
Description	:	MRS. SAM GASKILL Mrs. Sam Gaskill, one of the former residents of Villisca, died February 12, 1950, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ota Miers in Milton, Iowa, where she had lived for the last three years. She was 79 years old. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the Wolfe Funeral Home in Villisca, conducted by the Rev. L. H. Athey. The singing was by Mrs. Harold Nordyke and Mrs. Lester Scott and the pall bearers were Otha Shepherd, Fred Higgins, Clyde Lewis, Ed Wagaman, Donald Fisher, and Albert Lee. Interment was in the Villisca Cemetery beside the... Read More	MRS. SAM GASKILL Mrs. Sam Gaskill, one of the former residents of Villisca, died February 12, 1950, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ota Miers in Milton, Iowa, where she had lived for the last three years. She was 79 years old. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the Wolfe Funeral Home in Villisca, conducted by the Rev. L. H. Athey. The singing was by Mrs. Harold Nordyke and Mrs. Lester Scott and the pall bearers were Otha Shepherd, Fred Higgins, Clyde Lewis, Ed Wagaman, Donald Fisher, and Albert Lee. Interment was in the Villisca Cemetery beside the husband of the deceased. Mrs. Martha Myrtle Gaskill, daughter of Silas Edward Shepherd and Rebecca Emma Caroline Lewis, was born January 24, 1871, near Winterset, Iowa. While still an infant, she came with her parents to Villisca where she lived until three years ago when because of ill health, she went to live with her daughter to Milton, Iowa. On April 4, 1889, she was united with Sam Gaskill of Villisca, and to this union two daughters were born. She was preceded in death by her husband on September 11, 1941. Surviving are her daughters, Mrs. Ota Miers of Milton and Mrs. Bessie Doeringsfeld of Hampton, Iowa; 5 grandchildren, 5 great grandchildren, two brothers, Charlie Shepherd, Villisca an dRussell Shepherd, Pittsburg, California; three sisters, Mrs. I. N. Craighead, Healdsburg, California, Mrs. Bertha Parcher, Oakland, California, and Mrs. B. G. Williams, Bondurant, iowa. Villisca Review, Villisca, Iowa, Thursday, February 16, 1950, page 3

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Myrtle Martha Shepherd Gaskill death on 12 Feb 1950 in Milton, Van Buren County, Iowa, USA
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Latitude: 40.9389000
Longitude: -94.9747009

Family Members:

Parent

Silas Shepherd

(1844 - 1930)

Rebecca Caroline Emily “Emma” Lewis Shepherd

(1847 - 1905)

Spouse

Samuel S. “Sam” Gaskill III

(1867 - 1941)

Siblings

Lou Elvira Shepherd Higgins

(1868 - 1939)

Leonadus Luther “Lon” Shepherd

(1872 - 1923)

Ella N. Shepherd Penwell

(1877 - 1901)

Ruth Emma Shepherd Spargur Williams

(1895 - 1982)

Children

Ota Dell Gaskill Miers

(1890 - 1953)

Bessie Viola Gaskill Doeringsfeld

(1898 - 1967)

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