This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#183628) Dora Alice Tharp <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=183628> AUTHOR: volunteer DATE: 2/12/2008 at 09:36:43 Surnames: THARP,TEETS,SMICELEE,WHITE Source: Burlington, Iowa, Hawk-Eye Gazette, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 1953 Wapello - Mrs. Dora Alice Tharp, 78, a longtime resident of Grandview died Dec. 22 at the Ross nursing homein Mornig Sun. A native of the Toolesboro vicintiy, Mrs. Tharp was born Aug. 6, 1875, the daughter of John and Jane Teets Smice, and was married to Thomas Tharp in 1898. Mr. Tharp died in 1936. Surviving are two sons and two daughters: Thomas M. Tharp, Muscatine; James M. Tharp, Grandview; and Mrs. Leona Lee and Mrs. Lucille White, both of Burlington. Also surviving are three brothers and a sister, Charles and James Smice, both of Muscatine; Jack Smice, Grandview; and Mrs. Josephine Powell if Canton, Ill., 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Last rites wil be held at the Dudgeon funeral home in Wapello at 2 p.m. Saturday. The Rev. Dean Buster of Grandview will officiate, and burial will be in the Gandview Cemetery.