Area Obituaries

A DAUGHTER, WANDA JEAN, WAS BORN TO MR. AND MRS. CLEO HACKER, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1929 AND THEY WERE CALLED TWO DAYS LATER TO MOURN HER DEATH. SHE LEAVE BESIDES HER FATHER AND MOTHER, HER GRANDPARENTS, MR. AND MRS. WM. LEEPER, OF LAMONI, IOWA AND MR. AND MRS. ROY HACKER,  OF MOUNT AYR, IOWA, ALSO…

GEORGE SWAIN,  HE WAS ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT EARLIER SETTLERS OF RINGGOLD COUNTY, DIED JULY 29, 1929, AT THE SANATARIUM AT EXCELSIOR SPRINGS MONDAY EVENING. MR. SWAIN, WHO BY REASON OF HIS ADVANCED AGE HAD BEEN IN DECLINING HEALTH FOR SOME TIME, STOPPED AT THE SANATARIUM FOR TREATMENT LAST WEEK, WHEN HE WAS ENROUTE…

J.B. STARK, EIGHTY-FIVE YEAR OLD RESPECTED CITIZEN OF MOUNT AYR, DIED AT HIS HOME YESTERDAY MORNING (JULY 10, 1929) AT FIVE O’CLOCK AFTER AN ILLNESS OF ABOUT A YEARS DURATION. FOR THE PAST FIFTY YEARS MR. STARK HAS BEEN A RESIDENT OF RINGGOLD COUNTY, HAVING LIVED ON A FARM IN LIBERTY TOWNSHIP AND WHEN RETIRING…

JOSEPH WATSON REYNOLDS, SON OF MR. AND MRS. GEORGE M. REYNOLDS, WAS BORN JUNE 27, 1846, IN VINTON COUNTY, OHIO, AND DIED JULY 1, 1929, AGED 83 YEARS AND FOUR DAYS. HE WAS MARRIED TO MARGARET E. BARKER AUGUST 23, 1868, WHO PASSED FROM THIS LIFE APRIL 16, 1906. TO THIS UNION WAS BORN TEN…

SUSIE SWIFT COMBS WAS BORN FEBRUARY 8, 1891, IN WORTH COUNTY, MISSOURI AND DIED JULY 5, 1929, IN ST. JOSEPH, MO. SHE SPENT HER EARLIEST YEARS ON THE FARM AND THEN MOVED WITH HER FAMILY TO GRANT CITY, MO., WHERE SHE ATTENDED SCHOOL AND GRADUATED FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL. SHE THEN ATTENDED MARYVILLE STATE NORMAL…

JOEL HENRY STANLEY, SON OF JOHN AND LOUISE STANLEY, WAS BORN DECEMBER 1, 1851 AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE JUNE 25, 1929, AT PLEASANTON, IOWA, BEING AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH 77 YEARS, SIX MONTHS AND 24 DAYS OF AGE. HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIED TO MISS IOWA BELLAMY, JULY 21, 1875. SHE PRECEDED HIM…

JOHN P. DORFF, SON OF PETERSON AND JANNA DORFF, WAS BORN OCTOBER 26, 1850 IN JONSOPING SWEDEN AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN HIS HOME IN DIAGONAL, IOWA, JUNE 13, 1929, AT THE AGE OF 78 YEARS, SEVEN MONTHS AND 17 DAYS. MR. DORFF CAME TO AMERICA ARRIVING IN OSCEOLA, IOWA, MAY 30, 1875, BRINGING HIS…

JOHN HOLDEN, SON OF WILLIAM AND SARAH HOLDEN, WAS BORN IN COUNTY ARMAGH, IRELAND, ON MARCH 10, 1839, AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT HIS HOME IN WEST MOUNT JUNE 4, 1929 AGED 90 YEARS, TWO MONTHS AND 25 DAYS. MR. HOLDEN IMMIGRATED TO AMERICA WITH HIS FATHER AND TWO SISTERS WHEN HE WAS NINE YEARS…

Christopher C. Rogers was born at Monmouth, IL., July 8, 1852. About a year ago he came to Arapahoe, CO., to live with his nephew and niece, Christopher and Minerva Rogers, at whose home he departed this life May 17, 1929, aged 76 years, 10 months and nine days. One brother, Dudly Rogers, ten years…

Anna Valina Frazey was born at Salina, Jefferson County, Iowa, May 30, 1857, and passed away at her home in Tingley, Iowa, May 23, 1929, aged 71 years, eleven months and 22 days. She was united in marriage to Hiram Whisler on August 17, 1871 and to this union were born thirteen children, seven boys…

Milo Dean, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Messinger, born April 10th at the home of Mrs. Messinger’s parents. The tender flower was too fragile for earth after all that doctors, nurses and loving hands could do. The little life passed out at six o’clock Wednesday morning. Interment was made in Rose Hill Cemetery.…

JOHN ERWIN WILSON, SON OF MR. AND MRS. J.H. WILSON, WAS BORN NOVEMBER 27, 1885, IN ATCHESON COUNTY, MISSOURI, JUST SOUTH OF BLANCHARD, IOWA, AND PASSED AWAY JUNE 2, 1929, AT THE MISSOURI HOSPITAL IN ST. JOSEPH, MO., AGED FORTY-THREE YEARS, SIX MONTHS AND FIVE DAYS. HE HAD BEEN ILL FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS, BUT…