Area Obituaries

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…

HARRY SAMUEL SPURRIER WAS BORN IN MOUNT AYR ON DECEMBER 28, 1897, AND HE WAS THEREFORE THIRTY-ONE YEARS, EIGHT MONTHS AND FOURTEEN DAYS OLD AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH. IN THIS CITY HE GREW TO MANHOOD AND RECEIVED HIS EDUCATION, BEING GRADUATED FROM THE MOUNT AYR HIGH SCHOOL IN THE CLASS OF 1916. DURING…

JOHN WESLEY FENDER WAS BORN IN MERCER COUNTY, ILLINOIS, ON DECEMBER 25, 1867. HE DIED AT THE METHODIST HOSPITAL IN DES MOINES, IOWA, SEPTEMBER 7, 1929 AGED 61 YEARS, SEVEN MONTHS AND 13 DAYS. AT THE AGE OF NINE YEARS HE CAME WITH HIS PARENTS, ZACARIAH AND FRANCIS FENDER, TO RINGGOLD COUNTY, WHERE HE GREW…

RANDOLPH AVERY FOSTER, SON OF MR. AND MRS. LEXINGTON FOSTER, WAS BORN IN RINGGOLD COUNTY NEAR CALENDONIA, IOWA, NOVEMBER 27, 1887, AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT THE HOME NEAR TORRINGTON, WY., AUGUST 19, 1929, BEING AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH 41 YEARS, EIGHT MONTHS AND 22 DAYS OF AGE. ON DECEMBER 22, 1909, HE…

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…

LYLE M. CAMPBELL, BROTHER OF C.A. AND J.M. CAMPBELL OF MOUNT AYR, DIED MONDAY AFTERNOON OF LAST WEEK AT HIS HOME  IN OTTUMWA, IOWA, AFTER AN ILLNESS OF SEVERAL YEARS’ DURATION. MR. CAMPBELL WAS WELL KNOWN IN MOUNT AYR AND VICINITY. HE WAS BORN IN THIS COUNTY AND SINCE MOVING TO OTTUMWA IN THE LATE…

JOHNATHAN M. STUCK WAS BORN NEAR MOUNT AYR, IOWA, JULY 30, 1891 AND PASSED AWAY AT EDWARD HINES, JRS. HOSPITAL, MAYWOOD, IL, JULY 14, 1929 AGED 37 YEARS, 11 MONTH AND 14 DAYS. HIS EARLY LIFE WAS SPENT IN IOWA, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A FEW YEARS WHEN HE RESIDED IN IDAHO. HE CAME TO…

MARY L. BRAMON WAS BORN APRIL 28, 1847, IN BUFFALO, N.Y., AND DIED AT THE HOME OF HER SON, FRED BRAMON, NEAR DELPHOS, AUGUST 8, 1929, AT THE AGE OF 82 YEARS, THREE MONTHS, AND TEN DAYS. WHEN SIX MONTHS OLD SHE MOVED WITH HER PARENTS TO FOND DU LAC, WI., AND LIVED THERE UNTIL…

JENNIE ELIZABETH SMITH, DAUGHTER OF DR. AND MRS. SMITH, WAS BORN AT SUNBEAM, IL., OCTOBER 1, 1857, AND PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME IN MOUNT AYR, AUGUST 10, 1929, AGED 71 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AND NINE DAYS. SHE HAD BEEN IN ILL HEALTH SINCE AUGUST 1925 AND DURING THE LAST YEAR GRADUALLY GREW WEAKER. OF…