MARY FRANCIS TOMAN CREVELING (DECEMBER 1889-AUGUST 30, 1929)

MARY FRANCIS TOMAN, DAUGTHER OF EUSTAS AND BARBARA TOMAN, WAS BORN IN WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, RINGGOLD COUNTY, IOWA, DECEMBER 8, 1889, WHERE SHE GREW TO WOMANHOOD; AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT HER HOME NEAR ELLSTON, IOWA, AUGUST 30, 1929 AT THE AGE OF 39 YEARS, EIGHT MONTHS AND 22 DAYS.

ON FEBRUARY 26, 1913, SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO CARL CREVELING. TO THIS UNION WAS BORN EIGHT CHILDREN, THREE OF WHOM PRECEDED THEIR MOTHER IN DEATH, RUTH AT THE AGE OF SEVEN, IN JULY, 1922 AND DOROTHY AND RAYMOND DYING IN INFANCY.

SHE LEAVES TO MOURN HER DEATH, HER HUSBAND, FIVE CHILDREN, ELVYN, LAWRENCE, MARIAN, HELEN AND KENITH. ALSO HER MOTHER AND FATHER, OF DIAGONAL; ONE SISTTER, PAULINE CREVELING OF ELLSTON; FOUR BROTHERS, JOHN, DAVID, VICTOR, AND EDD, OF DIAGONAL, IOWA; AND A HOST OF RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.

SHE WAS A DEVOTED WIFE AND LOVING MOTHER OF A KIND AND CHEERFUL DISPOSITION. SHE SPOKE KINDLY OF EVERYONE SHE MET, AND WAS ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP IN TIME OF SICKNESS AND NEED. BECAUSE OF HER FINE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER, SHE MADE FOR HERSELF A LARGE PLACE IN THE COMMUNITY AND IN THE HOME. SHE WILL BE GREATLY MISSED BY HER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS AND BY EVERYONE WHO KNEW HER.

A PRECIOUS ONE FROM US HAS GONE; A VOICE WE LOVED IS STILLED; THERE IS A VACANCY IN OUR HOME, WHICH NEVER CAN BE FILLED.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE ELLSTON M.E. CHURCH MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1929, CONDUCTED BY REV. C.R. SAVILLE. INTERMENT WAS AT THE ELLSTON CEMETERY.