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Margaret J. Lister

Posted 2009-07-18 by Sharla
Wickenburg Sun Newspaper
Friday, December 21, 1951

Funeral services Thursday for Mrs. Ren Lister who died at her home here Monday. Six children survive.

Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Alvin Booher in Wickenburg Chapel Thursday for Mrs. Margaret Jane Lister who died in her home on Tegner Street Monday. The 72-year-old woman had been ill for three years, being confined to her home more than a year. Burial was in Wickenburg Cemetery.

Mrs. Lister was born in Randolph, Illinois. She came to Wickenburg with her husband, Ren Lister, five years ago from Polk City, IA., and for a number of years lived on the Sombrero Ranch of Dr. and Mrs. Floyd Bralliar where they were caretakers.

The husband and six children survive. They are Mrs. Harriet Gaza, Mrs. Ethel Root and Mrs. Robert Dozier fo Wickenburg; Mrs. Lucille Bart of Madrid, Ia.; Mrs. Nellie Allen of Polk City Ia.; and Lorenzo Lister, also of Polk City. A sister, Mrs. Laura West of Garnett, Kan.; two brothers, William Smith of Hayworth, Ill., and Charles Smith of Randolph, Ill.; 16 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren also survive.



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