This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#267908) Frances (Betty) Holcomb <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=267908> AUTHOR: Mari Nielsen - DATE: 2/25/2010 at 20:25:29 Surnames: HOLCOMB,STAPP,BAKER,WAGNER,ABNEY FRANCES (BETTY) HOLCOMB Frances (Betty) Holcomb, 70, of Rt. 1, Nichols, died Tuesday night at her home. Services will be at Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Ralph J. Wittich Funeral Home. The Rev. Dan Schoepf will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2-9 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. The daughter of Guy and Pina Stapp Baker, Mrs. Holcomb was born Dec. 28, 1910, in Muscatine County. A life resident, she married Thomas (Ben) Holcomb on Oct. 9, 1936, in Muscatine. Surviving are two sons, Thomas B. and Frank M., both of rural Nichols; a daughter, Mrs. Ken (Delpha May) Wagner of rural Nichols; nine grandchildren; three foster grandchildren; and seven foster great-grandchildren; a brother, Robert B. Baker of Denver, Colo.; and a sister, Beverly Abney of Beaconsfield, Quebec. She was preceded in death by two sisters. Source: newspaper clipping with handwritten death date September 22, 1981