This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zk.2ADI/2073 Message Board Post: ©Daily Nonpareil 12/22/2005 Elizabeth Adelaide Blum Elizabeth Adelaide Blum, 88, of Earling, passed away Dec. 21, 2005, at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital. She was born in Earling. She attended St. Joseph's Catholic School in Earling. She was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Catholic Daughters of the Americas Court St. Katherine No. 266 of Earling. Mrs. Blum was preceded in death by her husband, Leander "Jim" Blum. They were married 54 years. Survivors include daughters, Mary Elizabeth Hayes and husband, Merlin, of Denton, Neb. and Kathryn "Kathy" Kopocis and husband, Larry, of LaVista, Neb., Jayne Graeve and husband, William, of Lincoln, Neb.; son, Timothy Blum, and wife, Jacquelyn, of Golden, Colo.; brother, Louis Koesters, of Harlan; ten grandchildren; four great-grandchildren. Visitation 1 to 5 p.m. today at Pauley Jones Funeral Home. Visitation tonight from 6 to 9 p.m. with Rosary at 7 p.m. at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Earling. Funeral will be Friday at 11 a.m. at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Earling with Rev. Michael Berner officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Earling. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Arrangements and Services For Elizabeth “Betty” Blum Age - 88 Who Died On Wednesday, December 21, 2005 Visitation Thursday, December 22, 2005 1:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. Pauley Jones Funeral Home Harlan, Iowa Thursday, December 22, 2005 6:00 P.M. - 9:00 P.M. St. Joseph’s Catholic Church Earling, Iowa Rosary Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 7:00 P.M. St. Joseph’s Catholic Church - Earling, Iowa A Mass of Christian Burial Friday, December 23, 2005 - 11:00 A.M. St. Joseph’s Catholic Church - Earling, Iowa Interment St. Joseph’s Cemetery - Earling, Iowa Survivors include her children: Mary “Elizabeth” (Merlin) Hayes of Denton, NE; Kathryn “Kathy” (Larry) Kopocis of LaVista, NE; Timothy (Jacquelyn) Blum of Golden, CO; Jayne (William) Graeve of Lincoln, NE; brother, Louis Koesters of Earling, IA.