Ledoris J. Deuser

      Ledoris J. Deuser, 67, of Clinton, Mo., died Friday, Dec. 15, 2000, at the Golden Valley Memorial Hospital in Clinton.

      The funeral service will be 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 19, at the Fremont Funeral Chapel in Fremont. Burial will follow at Deuser Cemetery near Farson. Visitation began at 10:00 a.m. Monday, Dec. 18, at Fremont Funeral Chapel with the family present from 5 to 7 p.m. A memorial has been established.

      Mrs. Deuser was born June 25, 1933, in Connelsville, Mo., the daughter of Hugh and Edith Brookhart Polson. She was raised and educated in several communities in southern Iowa. She married Ernest Dale Jacobs in Wapello County in Nov. 1951. She lived in Agency and Batavia before settling in the Ottumwa area in 1963 where she worked as a waitress for several restaurants. She married Warren Lee Deuser during summer, 1969. A resident of Packwood and Farson for several years, she moved to South Dakota in 1973. She returned to Iowa in the early 1980?s and settled in the Mt. Pleasant area where she lived until moving to Clinton in 1988.

      She was a member of the Fairfield Order of the Eastern Star, enjoyed dancing, listening to music, and was very proud of her Native American Cherokee and Blackfoot heritage.

      Survivors include a special friend, Harry Holcomb of Clinton; a son, Ernest Dale Jacobs, Jr. and Michelle Jacobs of Windsor, Mo.; four daughters, Doris and Michael Rump of Ottumwa, Donna and Scott Connelly of Brighton, Diana and Bill Farmer of Brighton, and Deborah and Roy Appleget of Mt. Pleasant; three brothers, Clifford Polson of Pella, Harold ?Bud? Polson of Mt. Pleasant, and Dale and Barbara Jo Polson of Oskaloosa; two sisters, Phyllis and Harold Scaggs of Mt. Pleasant and Karen Fisher of Ottumwa; twelve grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; her second husband Warren in 1987; two sisters, Dorothy Swanson and Hazel Polson; a brother, Herbert Polson; and a grandson.