To request a copy of this photo for your own personal use, please contact our state coordinator. If you are not a family member or the original photographer — please refrain from copying or distributing this photo to other websites.
Thank you for visiting the Missouri Gravestone Photo Project. On this site you can upload gravestone photos, locate ancestors and perform genealogy research. If you have a relative buried in Missouri, we encourage you to upload a digital image using our Submit a Photo page. Contributing to this genealogy archive helps family historians and genealogy researchers locate their relatives and complete their family tree.
Submitted: 2/8/16 • Approved: 2/21/16 • Last Updated: 4/9/18 • R786861-G786860-S3
Mabel
1890 - 1979
Jesse
1891 - 1947
LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
April 12, 1979, page 3
MABLE N. SHOUSE
---Mabel N. Shouse, 89, of LaPlata, died at 7:23 Wednesday night, April 4, 1979, in the LaPlata Nursing Home where she had been a patient for five years.
---Born March 24, 1890, east of LaPlata, in Macon County, she was the daughter of George William and Lela Ives Newton. On December 6, 1914, in Adair County, she was married to Jess E. Shouse who preceded her in death on November 14, 1947. Also preceding her in death were one son, Dale Shouse who was killed in October, 1942, in a plane crash while serving with the United States Armed Forces; one daughter, Wilma Sanphillipo on August 2, 1977; two sisters and three brothers.
---Surviving are one son, Raymond Shouse of Rt. 3, Macon; one daughter, Mrs. John (Frances) Sampson of Rt. 2, Atlanta; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; four sisters, Lola Woods of LaPlata, Mary Crawford of LaPlata, Edna Yetter of Castro Valley, California, and Lucille Newton of Dunsmuir, California, and two brothers, Kenneth Newton of La Hambra, California, and Dr. Carroll Newton of Ashland, Oregon.
---Mrs. Shouse was a life-long resident of the LaPlata area.
---She was a member of the LaPlata Community Presbyterian Church and the Kings Daughters class of the church.
---Funeral services were held Friday afternoon, April 6, 1979, at 1:30 in the LaPlata Community Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Carl Hoff conducted the services. Burial was in the LaPlata Cemetery.
---Bearers were: Erby Francis, Noel Crawford, Bob Crawford, Henry Eitel, Cleo Hunter, Lee Shouse, Charles M. Lindquist and Glen Gudenhus.
Parents:
George William Newton (1862 - 1953)
Lela I. Newton (1870 - 1949)
Spouse:
Jesse Elmer Shouse (1891 - 1947)
Children:
Dale Eugene Shouse (1918 - 1942)
Wilma Mable Shouse Sanphillipo (1922 - 1977)
Siblings:
Ada Newton Francis (1886 - 1969)
Lola Newton Woods (1887 - 1983)
Mabel Newton Shouse (1890 - 1979)
Orville W. Newton (1891 - 1918)
Hazel Newton (1894 - 1900)
Kenneth E Newton (1896 - 1986)
Mary Doris Newton Crawford (1901 - 1981)
Harold Ralph Newton (1903 - 1963)
LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
November 20, 1947
JESS SHOUSE
---Jess E. Shouse, fifty-six, a farmer living northeast of La Plata, died in a Kirksville hospital Friday morning. He had been in failing health the past four months.
---Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian Church Sunday afternoon conducted by Rev. Fred L. Hudson. Interment was in the La Plata cemetery.
---Mr. Shouse, son of Allen H. and Mary M. Shouse, was born February 2, 1891 in Adair County near Wilson(town).
---He was married to Mabel N. Newton on December 6, 1914. Two sons and two daughters were born to them.
---His parents, three brothers and one sister preceded him in death.
---Dale E., the oldest son, died in the service of his country on October 12, 1942 in the Hawaiian Territory.
---He is survived by his wife, one son, Raymond C. and one daughter, Lucille F. of the home and one daughter, Mrs. Wilma M. Sanphillipo and a granddaughter, Mary Ann, both of Baltimore, Maryland; daughter-in-law, Mrs. Thela Shouse of Sunnyside, Washington; two brothers, Earl of La Plata and Ernest of Kansas City; two sisters, Mrs. Bertha Emmons of Patterson, California and Mrs. John Wandell of Gibbs, several nieces and nephews.
Parents:
Allan Hamilton Shouse (1855 - 1937)
Mary Margaret Vansickle Shouse (1859 - 1928)
Spouse:
Mabel Newton Shouse (1890 - 1979)
Children:
Dale Eugene Shouse (1918 - 1942)
Wilma Mable Shouse Sanphillipo (1922 - 1977)
Siblings:
Etta Alice Shouse Wandell (1880 - 1966)
Alpha William Shouse (1882 - 1943)
Walter Edmond Shouse (1884 - 1934)
Alva Earl Shouse (1886 - 1970)
Jesse Elmer Shouse (1891 - 1947)
Bertha Florence Shouse Emmons (1898 - 1977)
Oral Ernest Shouse (1903 - 1985)
Photo contributed by Larry and Susan Olson lolson60@cableone.net
Contributed on 2/8/16 by hawkinsdonna48
Email This Contributor
Suggest a Correction
Record #: 786861