Hancock County Journal
and The Carthage Republican
Carthage, Illinois
Thursday
June 28, 1962
Section 1
Page 8
Column 7Mrs. Ida Rexroat
Funeral services for Mrs. Ida May Rexroat, 89, of Colchester will be held Friday, June 29, at 2 p.m. in the chapel of the Jones Mortuary in Colchester, the Rev. Ernest Louderman officiating. Interment will be in the Majorville cemetery. Friends may call at the Jones Mortuary after Wednesday evening, and the family will receive friends there Thursday evening (tonight).
Mrs. Rexroat died yesterday morning in the Helton Nursing Home in Colchester.
Born Feb. 7, 1873, south of Joetta in Hancock county, she was a daughter of James and Sarah Way Sammons. She lived most of her life on the Sammons homestead, but moved to Colchester in 1946.
She was first married to William E. Yetter Oct. 26, 1896. She and her husband built the log cabin on the highway east of Carthage and served meals in the interest of the orphanage which was in Carthage at that time. Yetter died Feb. 5, 1931.
On April 8, 1935 she was married to Robert H. Rexroat who died Jan. 26, 1947.
Surviving are a step-son, Howard Rexroat of Sciota; five nieces, Mrs. Gertrude Lefler of Blandinsville, Mrs. Delta Runele of Colchester, Mrs. Chloe Smith of Warsaw, Mrs. Bessie Diffenderfer of Macomb, and Mrs. Clara Barbe of Tennessee; and one nephew, Roy Way of Tennessee.
She was preceded in death by three children; three brothers, Edmond, Charles and Stephen Sammons; and three sisters, Mary Jane Shields, Louisa Shields, and Ruth Conboy.
