Bessie Barrows - line 82
Source - Year: 1910; Census Place: Fayette, Decatur, Iowa; Roll: T624_400; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 0048; Image: 157; FHL Number: 1374413.
Bessie Barrows - line 17
Source - Year: 1920; Census Place: Fayette, Decatur, Iowa; Roll: T625_486; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 54; Image: 662.
Bessie Barrows - line 145
Source - Year: 1925; Iowa State Census Collection, 1836-1925; Census Place: Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa; Roll: IA1925_1687; Image: 98
Bessie Barrows - line 145
Source - Year: 1925; Iowa State Census Collection, 1836-1925; Census Place: Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa; Roll: IA1925_1687; Image: 99
Source - Iowa, Marriage Records, 1923-1937
Barrows-Schemmer
Miss Betty Barrows of Lamoni, Iowa, was wedded to Mr. Clarence Schemmer of this city by Rev. Father M.A. Schemel at Alton, June 3. The bride was attended by Miss Charlotte Dunn of Granite, Florida, and the groom by his brother, Walter Schemmer.
The bride taught in the first grade of the public school here three years ago and has been teaching in the public schools of Sheldon and is a talented young lady. The groom is the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Schemmer of Rock Valley and was born and raised here. He is a graduate of Creighton university, class of 1925, and is connected with the Schemmer hardware store here.
Mr. and Mrs. Schemmer left immediately for a wedding trip to Lamoni and Chicago.
Source - Alton Democrat - Jun 15, 1929
Mary (Churske) Kaskie - line 6
Clarence Schemmer - line 32
Source - Year: 1930; Census Place: Rock Valley, Sioux, Iowa; Roll: 683; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 27; Image: 273.0.
Clarence Schemmer - line 4
Source - Year: 1940; Census Place: Rock Valley, Sioux, Iowa; Roll: T627_1205; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 84-27
Betty Schemmer
Bessie Violet "Betty" Schemmer, 80, of Rock Valley, died Friday, October 22, at Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls.
Betty Barrows was born March 29, 1902, in Lamoni, Iowa. She attended Graceland College in Lamoni and graduated from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. She married Clarence Henry "Solly" Schemmer June 3, 1929, in Alton, Iowa, and they settled in Rock Valley. From 1921 to 1970 she taught elementary school in various Iowa communities including Sheldon, Mount Ayre, Doon and Rock Valley. She was active in the Federated Women's Club, the library board and the hospital auxiliary in Rock Valley.
Her husband died in 1961.
Survivors include three sons, James, Seattle, Wash., Michael, Chilton, Wis., William, Tampa, Fla.; 14 grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Earl (Lois) Lanz, Henrick, Iowa.
Services were Monday, October 25, at 10:30 a.m. in St. Mary's Catholic Church in Rock Valley. Burial was in St. Mary's Cemetery.
Source - Rock Valley Bee - Oct 27, 1982
