Tombstone Tuesday~Elizabeth Deese Streater

Elizabeth Deese Streater
Birth: Sep. 10, 1893
Death: Jun. 18, 1980

Winnie Elizabeth Deese was the first born child of John Calvin Deese and Sarah Frances Gathings. Sarah Frances was John Calvin’s second wife, He was a widower with three small daughters when he married Sarah Frances in February 1892.

Elizabeth whom I knew as “Aunt Lizzie” married Joseph “Joe” Vernon Streater about September 1920. Joe and Aunt Lizzie had 5 children; 4 sons and a daughter. The 3 youngest children perished as infants and only the two firstborn lived to adulthood. Both of these two children have since passed away.

Aunt Lizzie died in an Alabama nursing home, near her daughter, in June 1980. One of her six sisters were still living at that time and she would die two years later in February 1982.  Aunt Lizzie was buried in the Morven Cemetery, Morven, Anson County, North Carolina.








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[1] Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 4 June 2010); Memorial page for Elizabeth Deese Streater; (10 September 1893–18 June 1980); Find a Grave memorial # 38280167, Citing Morven Cemetery; Morven, Anson County, North Carolina, USA.
[2] Mrs. Elizabeth Streater obituary, The Ozark Star, Ozark, Dale County, Alabama, 25 June 1980. Holman Funeral Home in Charge.