Nelva Cordelia (Delia) Patterson, 95, died at 6:40 p.m. Friday at the Regency Care Center in Carthage, where she had lived for three years.
Mrs. Patterson was born April 15, 1892, in Rocky Comfort, where she had lived until 1967 when she moved to Diamond. She was a member of the Rocky Comfort Methodist Church. She married Hugh Patterson 7 Aug. 1911 in Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri. He died in 1920.
Survivors include a son, Larry Patterson, Diamond, a daughter, Thelma Brown, Diamond, two sisters, Mildred Kelso, Carterville, and Vera Garner, Webb City, five grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at McQueen Funeral Home, Wheaton, with burial in Rocky Comfort Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. Monday until the funeral hour.
Neosho Daily News
9 August 1987
Family links:
Parents:
Ferman Melford Bible (1864 - 1945)
Mary Catherine Miller Bible (1869 - 1951)
Spouse:
Hugh Patterson (1888 - 1921)
Children:
Jewell Patterson Schell (1900 - 1977)*
Larry H Patterson (1912 - 1991)*
Siblings:
Nelva Cordelia Bible Patterson (1892 - 1987)
Robert Otis Bible (1897 - 1971)*
Harlan Columbus Bible (1902 - 1985)*
Mildred Bible Kelso (1904 - 1993)*
