IVY E. SHORT MENDENHALL

IVY E. MENDENHALL, DAUGHTER OF JAMES E. AND RACHEL JANE SHORT, WAS BORN JANUARY 8, 1872 AT REDFIELD, IOWA AND PASSED AWAY AT THE HOME OF HER SON, HALLARD , IN LENOX, IOWA , AFTER A SERIOUS ILLNESS OF ONLY A FEW DAYS.

SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO CHARLES H. MENDENHALL OCTOBER 31, 1890, AT REDFIELD, IOWA. TO THIS UNION WERE BORN SIX CHILDREN, THREE PRECEDING HER IN DEATH. ONE DAUGHTER IN INFANCY, OPAL JANE AT THE AGE OF TWO AND ONE HALF YEARS AND TEDDY AGED EIGHT.

SHE UNITED WITH THE JACKSON ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN 1896 DURING THE MINISTRY OF THE REV. T.E. GLENDENNING AND REMAINED A FAITHFUL MEMBER TO THE END.

SHE WAS A DEVOTED WIFE, A TRUE AND LOVING MOTHER AND A FAITHFUL FRIEND. HER GREATEST JOY WAS TRYING TO BRING HAPPINESS INTO THE LIVES OF OTHERS.

SHE LEAVES TO MOURN HER PASSING ONE SON, HALLARD OF LENOX; TWO DAUGHTERS, MRS. HAZEL DAVIS OF MOUNT AYR AND MRS. DALE BENSON OF WEST PLAINS, MO., EIGHT GRANDCHILDREN AND THREE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; FOUR SISTERS, MRS. BELLE SCOTT OF BOONE, MRS. GLADYS HEIN OF RIPPEY, MRS. BERNICE NORRIS OF MALOY AND EDITH ALDEN OF STUART; THREE BROTHERS, JACK SHORT OF REDFIELD, CLIFFORD SHORT OF BOONE, AND IRA SHORT OF LANSING, MI., ONE BROTHER, T.R. SHORT PRECEDED HER IN DEATH ONLY A FEW MONTHS AGO. SHE ALSO LEAVES A NUMBER OF NIECES AND NEPHEWS AND A TRUE AND DEVOTED FRIEND, MRS. ANNA GUTHRIE OF REDDING AND A HOST OF OTHER FRIENDS.