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{{short description|American journalist}}

{{Infobox person
| name = Idael Makeever
| image = IdaelMakeever1902.jpg
| alt = Idael Makeever, a white woman with pale eyes and fair hair; her hair is done up and curled; she is wearing a cameo brooch and a dark dress with white embroidery.
| caption = Idael Makeever, from a 1902 publication.
| birth_name = 
| birth_date = December 7, 1867
| birth_place = [[Porter County, Indiana]], U.S.
| death_date = August 23, 1954 (aged 86)
| death_place = [[Loveland, Colorado]], U.S.
| nationality = American
| other_names = Ida E. Childers, Ida Makeever
| occupation = {{flatlist|
* Poet
* songwriter
* journalist
* clubwoman
}}
| years_active =
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}}

'''Idael Childers Makeever''' (December 7, 1867 – August 23, 1954) was an American poet, songwriter, journalist and clubwoman.

== Early life ==
Idael Childers was born in 1867, in [[Porter County, Indiana]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://nebraskaauthors.org/authors/idael-makeever|title=Idael Makeever|website=Nebraska Authors|access-date=2019-10-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofporterc01lewi|quote=Idael Makeever.|title=History of Porter County, Indiana: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests|date=1912|publisher=Lewis Publishing Company|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofporterc01lewi/page/257 257]}}</ref> and educated in [[Valparaiso, Indiana|Valparaiso]], the daughter of George Childers and Tryphena Ida Childers. Her father was a businessman, and her mother was born in Canada.<ref name=":1">Sharon Meyer, Cobie Ball, and Madeline Sheldon, ''[https://library.valpo.edu/archives/MakeeverIdaelFindingAid.pdf Finding aid for Idael Makeever Collection, 1888-1986]'' (Valparaiso University Archives & Special Collections).</ref> After she was married and had two children in Nebraska, she returned to Indiana to take courses at [[Valparaiso University]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37173649/idael_makeever_1902/|title=Western Women Writers|date=July 19, 1902|work=The Saint Paul Globe|access-date=October 14, 2019|page=7|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

== Career ==
Makeever taught school in Indiana for several years as a young woman.<ref name=":1" /> She published two books of her poetry: ''Prairie Flowers and Meadow Grasses'' (1889) and ''Golden Rod and Dialect Poems'' (1898).<ref name=":0" /> She read her poem "Nebraska" at the [[Trans-Mississippi Exposition]] in [[Omaha, Nebraska|Omaha]], in 1898.<ref name=":0" /> Makeever's poem "I'm Going Home" was included in a 1902 collection of Indiana writers' works.<ref>Hamilton, Edward Joseph. [https://archive.org/details/indianawriterspp00hamirich/page/n129?q=Idael+Makeever ''Indiana Writers of Poems and Prose''] (Chicago: Western Press Association 1902): 130-131. via Internet Archive.</ref> "She took up the unsung themes of the West," commented one profile in 1902.<ref name=":2" /> "In the broad prairies," noted another, "her poetic nature blossomed and flowered, and the notes of her songs mingled with the music of the meadowlark."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37174089/idael_makeever_1902/|title=Pen and Picture Pointers|date=August 31, 1902|work=Omaha Daily Bee|access-date=October 14, 2019|page=22|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Makeever was an active member of the [[Western Association of Writers]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=IJ18990701.1.2&srpos=1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-Idael+Makeever------|title=The Last Joke Cracked|date=July 1, 1899|work=Indianapolis Journal|access-date=October 14, 2019|page=2|via=Hoosier Chronicles}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=INN19020603-01.1.14&srpos=2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-Idael+Makeever------|title=Western Association of Writers to Meet|date=June 3, 1902|work=Indianapolis News|access-date=October 14, 2019|page=14|via=Hoosier Chronicles}}</ref>

Makeever also wrote song lyrics, including "The Dream Face" (1909, music by Blanche M. Tice).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iVAcAQAAIAAJ&q=Idael+Makeever&pg=PA600|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions|date=1909|publisher=Library of Congress, Copyright Office.|pages=600}}</ref> During [[World War I]], she worked as a reporter for Omaha newspapers. During [[World War II]], she was a newspaper columnist in Colorado, and worked at [[Hill Air Force Base]] in Utah.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37174163/idael_makeever_1944/|title=HF Employe Has Seen Three Wars|date=November 29, 1944|work=The Hill Top Times|access-date=October 14, 2019|page=5|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Idael Makeever married lawyer and mining executive Milton Alexander Makeever in 1889; with him, she moved to [[Stromsburg, Nebraska]], where their two daughters, Merle and Iva Lee, were born in 1889 and 1894.<ref name=":1" /> She moved to [[Boulder, Colorado]] in 1902,<ref name=":0" /> while her husband was working at a gold mine in Mexico.<ref name=":1" /> She was widowed in 1940, and she died in 1954, aged 86 years, in [[Loveland, Colorado]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/obituary-clipping-sep-02-1954-1395976/|title=Obituary: Mrs. Idael Makeever|date=September 2, 1954|work=Stromsburg Headlight|access-date=October 14, 2019|page=1|via=NewspaperArchive.com}}</ref> Her papers are archived at [[Valparaiso University]] in Indiana.<ref name=":1" />

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Find a Grave|id=31448923|name=}}

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