This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#267653) Bessie Elizabeth Wykert <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=267653> AUTHOR: Mari Nielsen - DATE: 2/23/2010 at 23:01:05 Surnames: WYKERT,MARSHALL,MCCONAHAY BESSIE ELIZABETH WYKERT Services will be at 1:30 Thursday afternoon, at the Stacy-Lewis Chapel for Bessie Elizabeth Wykert, 89, Columbus Junction, who died Tuesday morning at Colonial Manor. The Rev. Tom Woodin, of United Methodist Church, will conduct the services and burial in the Wapello Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at Stacy-Lewis Funeral Home. A general memorial has been established. Mrs. Wykert was born Jan. 31, 1900, the daughter of William and Mary Marshall McConahay at Carroll, Iowa. On Sept. 25, 1923, she married H. Russell Wykert at Wapello. He died on July 30, 1986. She was a member of the Columbus City United Methodist Church and had been a homemaker. She is survived by her two sisters-in-law; Opal McConahay, and Margaret (Peg) McConahay, both of Columbus City. She was preceded in death by three brothers and her husband. Source: newspaper clipping with handwritten death date of May 9, 1989