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Alvin Pitts

21 Feb 1901 – 8 Sep 1967

Birth	21 Feb 1901
Death	8 Sep 1967
Cemetery	Maryhill Visitation Church Cemetery Cherokee , Cherokee County , Iowa , USA
Added by	Moteland on 23 Jul 2016
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/167321172

Bio

Cherokee Daily Times: Sept. 9, 1967: pg 6 Alvin J. Pitts, 65, died Friday night following a nine month illness. He lived at 718 West Main Street. He was born Dec. 21, 1901 in Cherokee County to William and Gertrude Schmitz Pitts. On Jan. 8, 1923, he married Mary Linneman at the Visitation Church at Maryhill. She preceded him in death March 11, 1942. He married Bessie Novak at Early, Ia, Nov. 10, 1952. He was a lifelong farmer and farmed in Elk Township, Buena Vista County, until he retired. Survivors are: his wife, Bessie, Cherokee; four daughters, Mrs. Bernard (Imelda) McDermott, Storm Lake; Mrs. Lawrence (Shirley) Kennedy, Denison; Mrs. Ervin (Rosemary) Westphal, Aurelia and Mrs. Don (Marlys) Alldredge, Colby, Kan. Two sons: William, Pocahontas and James, Alta. One stepson, Victor Novak, Toledo, Ia and two step-daughters, Mrs. Edward (Dorothy) Rosburg, Kremmling, Colo, and Mrs. Allen (Elaine) Rosburg, Lincoln, Neb. Five sisters: Mrs. Ray Leonard, Mrs. Gordon Messerole and Mrs. Robert Rahn, Cherokee, Mrs. Rose Zimmer, and Mrs Leonard George, Storm Lake. Three brothers also survive: William Pitts, Cherokee, Joseph, and Melvin Pitts, Cleghorn. There are also 43 grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a. m. Monday at Immaculate Conception Church, Cherokee. Father Robert Dougherty will be the celebrant of the Requiem High Mass. Burial will be in Visitation Cemetery at Maryhill. The Rosary will be recited at 8 p. m. Sunday in the Green wood Funeral Home.

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Family

Parents

• William G. Pitts 1874–1937 FaG
• Gertrude Schmitz Pitts 1876–1963 FaG

Spouse

• Mary Agnes Linneman Pitts 1902–1942 FaG
• Bessie Dostal Novak Pitts 1908–1986

Siblings

• Mary Ellen Pitts Leonard 1899–1989 FaG
• Rose Ethel Pitts Zimmer 1900–1983 FaG
• Joseph Sylvan Pitts 1905–1974 FaG
• Gertrude E. Pitts Messerole 1907–1993 FaG
• Melvin J. "Mike" Pitts 1909–1998 FaG

Children

• Imelda Gertrude Pitts McDermott 1925–1991 FaG
• Shirley Ann Pitts Kennedy 1927–2008 FaG
• William John "Bill" Pitts 1928–2007 FaG
• James Alvin "Jim" Pitts 1930–2018 FaG
• Rose Mary Pitts Westphal 1934–2019 FaG
• Marlys Elizabeth Pitts Alldredge 1936–2021 FaG

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