Bessie Norris

1897 - 1973  (75 years)

• Name	Bessie Norris  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Born	4 October 1897	Virginia, Cass Co., Illinois, USA   [1]
  Died	6 July 1973	Moline, Rock Island Co., Illinois, USA   [1]
  Buried	9 July 1973	Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I74048	Clan Moffat Genealogy
  Last Modified	14 January 2009

  
  

  Father	John Flavel Norris,   b. 17 December 1871, Mount Sterling, Brown Co., Illinois, USA ,   d. 25 January 1936, Virginia, Cass Co., Illinois, USA  (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Henrietta Sours,   b. 25 December 1876, Chandlerville, Cass Co., Illinois, USA ,   d. 19 May 1961, Jacksonville, Morgan Co., Illinois, USA  (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F51642	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family/Spouse	Edwin M Dyer,   b. 11 November 1895, Jamestown, ? Co., Iowa, USA ,   d. 3 October 1970, Moline, Rock Island Co., Illinois, USA  (Age 74 years)
  Married	2 February 1917	Rock Island, Rock Island Co., Illinois, USA   [1]
  Children	1. Edward C Dyer   2. Dyer   3. Delbert H Dyer   4. Carl Dyer   5. Doris Dyer
  Family ID	F51556	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  BIRTH: From Obituary CEMETERY: Fairmount---Davenport, Iowa OBITUARY: The Argus---Rock Island, Illinois 6 Jul 1973---Page 6 Mrs. Dyer, past city resident, dies at age 75 Mrs. Edwin Dyer, 75, former resident of Rock Island, died today at Moline Lutheran Hospital. For the past four months, Mrs. Dyer had made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Richard E. Landreville, in Reynolds. Funeral services for Mrs. Dyer will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday at the Knox-Larson Funeral Home, Rock Island. Burial will be in Fairmount Cemetery, Davenport. The Rev. Edward P. Nelson, pastor of the First Lutheran Church, Rock Island, will officate. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Sunday. The former Bessie Norris, a daughter of John and Henrietta Sours Norris, she was born Oct. 4, 1897, in Virginia, Ill. At the age of 17, she moved to Davenport. She also lived in Detroit for seven years and in Aledo for a year before moving to Rock Island. She was married to Edwin Dyer Feb 2, 1917, in Rock Island. He died Oct. 3, 1970. In addition to her daughter in Reynolds, other survivors are two sons, Edward C. Dyer, Rock Island, and Delbert H. Dyer, Davenport; eight grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and five brothers, Riley Norris, Davenport, and Earl, Wilbur, Garland and James Norris, Virginia. She also was preceded in death by a daughter and two sons. [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1966] GEDCOM file titled “William Robert Moffitt Geneaology.GED”, from Chuck Sours.