Cleda Ioma (McNutt) Biggerstaff (1905 - 1962)

Born 13 Apr 1905 in Homer City, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Died 6 Feb 1962 at age 56 in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA

Biography

Cleda was born in 1905. She is the daughter of William McNutt and Mary Brandon.

BURIAL Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA

Arizona Certificate of Death transcription: Cleda Ioma Biggerstaff, female, White, widowed, was born April 13, 1905 in Pennsylvania. Father: W. E. McNutt, born Indiana. Mother: Mary Matieda Braudon, born Indiana. She lived in Arizona and the Phoenix community 14 years. Residence: 432 North 17th Avenue, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. Occupation: Teacher. She died in Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix. At the time of her death on February 6, 1962, she was age 56 years. Cause of Death: Myocardial infarction. Informant for the Certificate: Patricia Biggerstaff, 432 North 17th Avenue, Phoenix. Burial in Memory Lawn Memorial Park, Phoenix on February 9, 1962.

Indiana Gazette, Indiana Co Pennsylvania, 9 Feb 1962, page 2 CLEDA IOMA BIGGERSTAFF passed away at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona on February 6, 1962 after a short illness. She was born in Homer City, Pa., daughter of William E McNutt and Matilda Brandon McNutt. Mrs. Biggerstaff spend most of her life in Homer City. In 1947 she moved to Phoenix and had been a teacher at the Red Rock School in southern Arizona for 11 years. She was the widow of Robert McConnell Biggerstaff who died in 1945. Mrs. Biggerstaff is survived by her daughter, Patricia Biggerstaff of Phoenix; a sister, Mrs Lynn Dick of Phoenix; and aunt, Mrs Tracy Brandon of Vandergrift, Pa. Funeral services, conducted by Reverend David Hartman of Grace Lutheran Church were held at the A.L. Moore and Sons Mortuary on Friday, February 9, 1962 at 11:30 a.m. Burial services in Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Arizona.

A Cenotaph with incomplete headstone located in Greenwood Cemetery, Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH36-D54 : accessed 9 November 2018), T Jefferson Brandon in household of William Mc Nutt, Center, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 16, sheet 21A, line 22, family 401, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2045; FHL microfilm 2,341,779.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156496737/cleda-ioma-biggerstaff