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Reba Ruth Taylor Powers
27 Jan 1910 – 21 Sep 2001
| Birth | 27 Jan 1910 |
| Death | 21 Sep 2001 |
| Cemetery | Oakland Cemetery Forest City , Winnebago County , Iowa , USA |
| Added by | Kathy P. on 11 Jun 2015 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89650395 |
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FOREST CITY - Reba Powers, 91, of Forest City, died Friday (Sept. 21, 2001) at the Algona Manor Care Center in Algona. Her funeral will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday at the United Methodist Church in Forest City with the Rev. Gary Marzolf officiating. Burial will be at Oakland Cemetery in Forest City. Visitation will be from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, at the Petersen Lund Funeral Home, 505 N. Clark St. in Forest City. Reba R. Powers, daughter of William and Ruth (Kelley) Taylor, was born Jan. 27, 1910, in Forest City. She graduated from a local country school in 1924. She met and married William Smith of Kirksville, Mo. in 1929. To this union were born eight children, Eugene (wife Shirley), Alice (husband Art), Frank (wife Barbara), James (wife Sandra), Mary (husband David), Dewey (wife Ruth), Lois (husband Rick), and Lawrence (wife Kathleen). Reba and Bill farmed different places in the area until buying a farm near Fertile. William died in 1950, after which Reba farmed with the help of her children, and later worked at the Forest City Hospital and the local nursing home. She married Jim Pospisil in 1956 and he passed away in 1966. In 1978 she married Maynard Powers of Crystal Lake. During this marriage she joined the United Methodist Church in Crystal Lake. Maynard died in 1992, leaving Reba alone again. For several years after his death Reba lived at the Town Square Apartments in Forest City, leaving only recently to live at the Algona Manor Care Center to be near some of her many grandchildren. Reba is survived by six children and their spouses, Eugene and Shirley Smith, of Mason City, James and Sandra Smith, of Phoenix, Ariz., Mary and David Tiedens, of Overguard, Ariz., Dewey and Ruth Smith, of Pequet Lake, Minn., Lois and Rick Lowenberg, of Iowa City, and Lawrence and Kathleen Smith, of South Carolina; two sisters, Marjorie Gorball, of Forest City and Doris Swain, of Butler, Mo.; and 27 grandchildren and numerous great and great-great-grandchildren. Also, three stepchildren, Marlene Bushman, of Crystal Lake, Jack Powers, of Garner, and Karen Hanson, of Forest City, along with many step-grandchildren. Reba was preceded in death by her parents, three husbands, a daughter, Alice; a son, Frank; and a brother and his wife, Carroll and Helga Taylor. She will be missed by many people.
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- Carroll Lyman Taylor 1908–1988 FaG
- Willie Taylor 1911–1911 FaG
- Ralph Taylor 1912–1912 FaG
- Marjorie Lois Taylor Gorball 1912–2001 FaG
Children
- Alice Irene Smith Hix 1931–1992 FaG
- Franklin Roosevelt "Frank" Smith 1933–1976 FaG
- SSG James Dean Smith 1935–2002 FaG
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