Area Obituaries

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…

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…