Area Obituaries

MATTHEW LOURIE, 86, DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS DAUGHTER, MRS. A.I. SMITH, IN MOUNT AYR, WHERE HE HAD MADE HIS HOME FOR THE PAST YEAR, ABOUT SEVEN O’CLOCK MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23. WHEN HE RETIRED SUNDAY EVENING HE WAS FEELING HIS USUAL SELF, BUT IN THE EARLY MORNING SUFFERED A SEVERE HEART ATTACK, FROM…

RACHEL JANE ATKIN, DAUGHTER OF CHARLES B. AND NANCY J. ATKIN, WAS BORN NEAR LONE TREE, JOHNSON COUNTY, IOWA, ON FEBRUARY 13, 1878, BEING THE OLDEST OF A FAMILY OF ELEVEN CHILDREN, AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON DECEMBER 6, 1929, AT THE GREATER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL IN CRESTON, IOWA, AFTER  AN ILLNESS OF THREE WEEKS, ALTHOUGH…

EDD LONG, SON OF J.C. AND MARY LONG, WAS BORN IN DECATUR COUNTY, IOWA, FEBRUARY 28, 1869 AND PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME NEAR BEACONSFIELD, IOWA, NOVEMBER 28TH, 1929. HE GREW TO MANHOOD NEAR BEACONSFIELD. IN THE YEAR OF 1898 HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MAE SCOTHORN. TO THIS UNION TWO CHILDREN WERE BORN,…

EUGENE J. FARRABEE, SON OF GEORGE AND MARGARET FARRABEE, WAS BORN IN OHIO, JUNE 12, 1866 AND DIED AT HIS HOME IN MOUNT AYR SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1929, AFTER AN ILLNESS OF SEVERAL MONTHS’ DURATION. AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH HE WAS 63 YEARS, FIVE MONTHS AND 11 DAYS OLD. IN  1917 HE CAME…

CLARISSA AMANDA REYNOLDS WAS BORN IN WAYNE COUNTY INDIANA, APRIL 15, 1849 AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE NOVEMBER 23, 1929, AGED 80 YEARS, SEVEN MONTHS AND EIGHT DAYS. SHE WAS ONE OF A FAMILY OF THIRTEEN CHILDREN. SHE CAME WITH HER PARENTS WHILE QUITE YOUNG TO IOWA, LOCATING IN MUSCATINE COUNTY. IN SEPTEMBER, 1867, SHE WAS…

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR EVERETT V. DRAPER, BRIEF MENTION OF WHOSE DEATH AT HIS HOME IN LONG BEACH, CALIF., WAS MADE IN THE RECORD NEWS LAST WEEK, WERE HELD AT THE B.W. COON FUNERAL HOME IN LONG BEACH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 20. MANY OLD FRIENDS WERE IN ATTENDANCE AND THE FLORAL TRIBUTES WERE PROFUSE AND BEAUTIFUL.…

FRANCIS RAMON JENNINGS, SON OF MRS. MARY JENNINGS CAMPBELL AND THE LATE EMMETT FANEL JENNINGS, WAS BORN AT REDDING, IOWA, ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1897 AND PASSED AWAY AT THE GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL AT BOISE CITY, IDAHO, AT 1 A.M. NOVEMBER 11 (ARMISTICE DAY), 1929, AGED 32 YEARS, ONE MONTH AND 13 DAYS. HE GREW TO MANHOOD…

A.W. GEORGE, FOR MANY YEARS A RESIDENT OF MOUNT AYR UNTIL FIFTEEN YEARS AGO WHEN HE MOVED TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, DIED NOVEMBER 5 AT HIS HOME IN LOS ANGELES, CALIF. HE WILL BE KINDLY REMEMBERED BY THE OLDER RESIDENTS OF MOUNT AYR. ABEL WILBUR GEORGE WAS BORN MARCH 11, 1846, AT FINLEY, OHIO, AND DIED…

WILLIAM ALVAN BAIRD, SON OF ABSALOM AND ISABELLE BAIRD, WAS BORN MAY 23, 1861 NEAR REDDING, IOWA; DIED OCTOBER 24, 1929, AT HIS HOME IN PONCA CITY, OK., AGE 68 YEARS FIVE MONTHS AND ONE DAY. HE WAS THE ELDEST OF TWELVE CHILDREN AND CAME FROM ONE OF THE PIONEER FAMILIES OF SOUTHERN IOWA. HE…

BETTY ANN, DAUGHTER OF SAMPSON AND MARY ANN CASSIDAY, WAS BORN IN VAN BUREN COUNTY, NEAR TROY, IOWA, MAY 1, 1854. SHE PASSED FROM THIS LIFE TO THE LIFE BEYOND, AT HER HOME IN KELLERTON, OCTOBER 17, 1929, AGED 75 YEARS, FIVE MONTHS AND 17 DAYS. BETTY ANN GREW TO WOMANHOOD IN VAN BUREN COUNTY.…

MRS. J.S. MOON WAS BORN IN CHAUTAUQUA, NEW YORK, JUNE 11, 1858. WHEN A SMALL CHILD HER PARENTS, MR. AND MRS. ANDREW SMITH, MOVED FROM NEW YORK TO ROCKFORD, IOWA, AND TWO YEARS LATER TO PUTNAM COUNTY MISSOURI, WHERE SHE GREW TO WOMANHOOD. IN EARLY LIFE SHE WAS MARRIED TO HIRAM VAN TRUMP AND TO…

THE SAD NEWS OF THE DEATH OF MRS. LENA OGDEN MELOY WAS RECEIVED LAST THURSDAY EVENING IN A TELEGRAM TO HER AUNT, MRS. HANNAH SLENTZ, AND ALL WHO WERE PRIVILEGED TO SHARE THE FRIENDSHIP OF THIS RARE CHRISTAIN CHARACTER WERE FILLED WITH INEXPRESSIBLE SADNESS. HER LIFE CAME TO ITS TRIUMPHANT END AT THE HOME IN…