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Obit For Martha Caroline (Hadley) (Churchwell) Boucher
Headline HOLD LAST RITES FOR MRS. M. C. BOUCHER
Text Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Caroline Boucher, 88 years old, who died Friday morning at her home in Wheaton, were held at 11 o'clock Sunday morning at the Wheaton Baptist Church. Rev. Charles VanZandt of Exeter offi- ciated, assisted by the Pastor, Rev. Floyd Gentry.

The church choir sang "We'll Never Grow Old" and Dr. E. A. Smith sang a solo, "Sometime We Will Understand". "Nearer My Go to Thee" was the processional and "Going Home" was the reces- sional.

The pallbeares were (six grandsons, a Miller, a Carlin and 4 Bouchers) with this (six grandsons, a Moore, a Carlin and 4 Bouchers)

Burial was in the Concord Cemetery under the direction of the Pogue Funeral Home.

Monett--Mrs. George Van Patten, Mrs. Hugh Crum, Mrs. F. K. Miller, Mrs. Arlie Dorris, Mrs. Emery Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Wil Bryant, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Willis, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Shockley, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Preston Brown, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Blankenship, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Louie Elrod, Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Boucher, and Flossie Charles.

Exeter--Mr. and Mrs. John Ellston, Mr. and Mrs. Bailey Boucher, Mrs. Maude McClure, and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Talbert.

Mrs. Ida Hadley and Charles Bryant of Cassville; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lane, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Talbert, Mr. and Mrs. Manville Weems, and Mrs. Don Knott of Neosha; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schooling and Mrs Jewett Staple- ton of Pierce City; Mr. and Mrs. Everett Cox of Purdy; Mrs Mabel Hagg of Bentonville, Ark; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Simmons of Seattle, Wash; Mrs. Stella Black and daughter of Cassville; and Mr. and Mrs. Basil Reece of Joplin.

Mrs. Boucher leaves four daughters, Mrs. Earl Carlin, Monett; Mrs Joe Owsley, Mrs. Bryan Wolf- enbarger, Wheaton; Mrs. Earl Gibbons, Everett, Wash; six sons J. O. Boucher, W. S. Boucher, Mo- nett; Shelby Boucher, Los Angeles; Robert Boucher Long Beach, Calif; Arthur Churchwell, Neosha; and Bert Churchwell, Canada.
Deceased: Martha Caroline (Hadley) (Churchwell) Boucher
Parents Names: Everhart and Sarah Jane (Box) Hadley
Place Born: Exeter, Barry Co., MO
Date Born: Oct. 8, 1861
Date Died: Dec. 16, 1949
Place Died: Wheaton, Barry Co., MO
Cemetery: Concord Cemetery, Barry Co., MO
Newspaper: Wheaton Journal
Paper Date: Dec. 22, 1949
Research Note:
Martha married first William Churchwell in 1882 in Barry, Co.
Second marraige was to Peter A Boucher in 1892 in Barry Co.
Mrs. Earl Carlin was Della May Boucher a daughter of Peter and Martha; Mrs. Bryan Wolfenbarger was Delpha Mary Boucher another daughter of Peter and Martha.
J. O. Boucher is John Orlando, W. S. Boucher is William Fenton, Shelby Boucher was Joe Shelby, and Robert Boucher were stepsons of Martha's. Their mother was Peter Boucher's first wife Rebecca Holt. Mrs Joe Owsley, and Mrs Earl Gibbons were stepdaughters from Peter's first wife. Bert Churchwell was in Birch Hills, Saskatchewan in 1906.
Newspaper or Funeral Home Wheaton Journal
Date Dec. 22, 1949
Death Cert Link Death Certificate
Resource State Historical Society of Missouri
Submitted by Stan McKay