Obituaries
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[Beal, James Emmett]

Maryville Daily Forum

Tuesday    September 3, 1946    [p. 1]

Funeral for J. E. Beal Will Be Held Wednesday

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Hopkins Christian church for James Emmett Beal, age 70, who died at 6:30 o'clock Monday evening at his home in Hopkins.  Burial will be in the Hopkins cemetery.

Mr. Beal, a retired farmer who had lived in Hopkins for the past three years, was born March 16, 1876, at Gaynor. His parents were the late Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Beal [Alveretta Devoir].

He was married in 1909 to Mrs. Laura [Elizabeth Snyder] Riggin, who preceded him in death.  On September 12, 1922, he married Miss Nannie [Nancy] Greever at Omaha, Neb.

Mr. Beal left here thirty years ago.  He was a former resident of this city. He made his home with his grandfather, James Devoir.  Mr. Beal was a veteran of the Spanish-American war.

His only survivor is his wife.

[Beal, Nancy "Nannie" Greever]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday    May 12, 1955    p. 6

Mrs. Beal Dies

Mrs. Nancy ["Nannie" Greever] Beal died Sunday, May 1, at her home in Hopkins.  Her husband, [James] Emmett Beal died in 1946.

Funeral services were held at the home Tuesday afternoon with Rev. A. V. Hart of the Christian church in charge.

She is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Nigh of Hopkins, Mrs. Nellie Hurley and Mrs. [Alice] Minnie Minter, both of Northboro; two brothers, John O. ['Neal] Greever and L. [indsay] B. [osang] Greever of Hopkins.

Burial was in the Hopkins cemetery.

[Berry, Nina Fine]

Maryville Daily Forum

Saturday    June 24, 1944    p. 3

Mrs. Nina Berry Dies

Mr. and Mrs. Ira Pine of Hopkins received word from California this week telling of the death of Mrs. Nina Fine Berry.  Mrs. Berry was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Fine, former residents of the Hopkins community. Mrs. Berry is survived by one daughter of Vancouver, Wash. Burial was at Greeley, Colo.

[Bone, David Francis]

Maryville Daily Forum

Saturday    June 24, 1944    p. 3

Rev. David F. Bone Dies At the Age of 101 Years

Rev. David F. [rancis] Bone, a former minister of the M. E. church, South, here, died June 18 at the age of 101 years at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Homer Talbot in Denver, Colo., where he had lived for the last ten years.

Rev. Bone, an old-time circuit rider, was pastor of the church here for two years, 1887-88, and also held pastorates at the Pleasant Grove and Wilcox churches.

Funeral services were held Thursday at Richmond, Mo. his birthplace, with Bishop C. C. Selectman officiating.  He is survived by his daughter in Denver, two other daughters, Mrs. Charles [George] Shortridge [Francis "Fannie"] of Dearborn, and Mrs. W. [illiam] H. Gabbert [Annie] of Clarksville and a son, T. C. Bone of St. Joseph, fifteen grandchildren and thirteen great grandchildren.

Rev. Bone served four years in the Confederate army under General Price, and served sixty-two years in the Missouri conference of the Southern Methodist church.  He formerly lived in St. Joseph twenty years and built two churches there, the Centenary Methodist church on South Tenth Street, which later was incorporated in the Gooding Methodist church, and also the Spruce Street Methodist church, now incorporated in the Marvin-McMurry Methodist church.

[Booth, James Harvey]

Maryville Daily Forum

Monday     May 1, 1944    [p. 1]

James H. Booth Dies; Funeral to Be Tuesday

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Price funeral home for James Harvey Booth, 77-year-old retired farmer, residing at 321 West Sixth street, who died at 6 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the St. Francis hospital where he had been a patient a week.

Rev. Dewey I. Meranda, pastor of the First Christian church will officiate.  Burial will be in the Miriam cemetery.

Born September 8, 1866, near Seymour, Ind., the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Peter Booth, he had resided here forty-seven years.  He had been ill four months.  On November 14, 1893, he was married to Belle Kennedy.

Besides his wife he is survived by a son, Harold Booth, Maryville; one daughter, Mrs. Vella Fisher, St. Joseph; one sister, Mrs. Mary Higgins, Seymour, Ind., and two grandchildren.

[Booth, James Harvey]

Maryville Daily Forum

Monday     May 8, 1944    p. 4

PARNELL

Wallace Kennedy attended the funeral of James Harvey Booth in Maryville Tuesday.

[Booth, James Harvey]

Maryville Daily Forum

Wednesday    May 3, 1944    p. 2

J. H. Booth Rites

Funeral services were conducted here yesterday afternoon for James Harvey Booth, who died Sunday. Rev. Dewey I. Meranda, pastor of the First Christian church, officiated.  Burial was in the Miriam cemetery.

 Pallbearers were Orville Willhoyte, Arch Willhoyte, Ernest Willhoyte, Wallace Kennedy, J. Dorr Ewing and Andrey Chamberlain.

Flowers were in charge of Mrs. Emery Airy, Mrs. Claude Noland, Mrs. Edward Gray and Mrs. Fred Hoffman.

Music was furnished by Emery Airy, accompanied by Mrs. Dale Howland.

[Brown, William Jefferson "Jeff"]

Maryville Daily Forum

Monday    December 17, 1962    p. 2

STANBERRY RESIDENT DIES IN REST HOME

Following a brief illness, W. [illiam] J. [efferson] "Jeff" Brown, 82, died Saturday morning at a Stanberry rest home.

A retired farmer and carpenter, he had resided in Gentry County for 72 years and was a member of the Stanberry Christian Church.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sylvia Brown; a son; two daughters; three. stepdaughters; one stepson; a brother; two sisters; eight grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.

Services will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Johnson Funeral Home, Stanberry, with the Rev. E. Chandler officiating. Burial will be in Grandview Cemetery, Albany.

[Busby, Thomas Alderson]

Maryville Daily Forum

Friday    February 5, 1943    [p. 1]

Thomas Busby, Farm Hand, Is Killed When Hit by Falling Tree

Funeral services were held at 10 o'clock this morning at the Swanson funeral home in Hopkins for Thomas A. [lderson] Busby, 72 years of age, a farm hand, who was killed about 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon by a falling tree while working in the timber.  Rev. Orlo Lincoln, pastor of the Christian church at Hopkins, officiated and burial was in the Hopkins cemetery.

Death was accidentally caused by a falling tree which struck his head and chest, crushing his head, according to Dr. W. R. Jackson, coroner, who was called.  Mr. Busby, who was working in the timber with a neighbor, John Daugherty, at the time of the accident occurred, had resided in the Good Hope community, west of Hopkins, about three years.

He is survived by three sons, Harley and Harvey Busby, St. Joseph, and W. T. Busby, Cheyenne, Wyo.

[Caltwedt, Tygo G.]

Maryville Daily Forum

Monday    December 17, 1962    p. 2

ROBERT SEVERSON'S GRANDFATHER DIES

Tygo G. Caltwedt, 87, grandfather of Robert Severson, Maryville, died at 4 p.m. Sunday at his home in McCallsburg, Ia., after a long illness. Mr. Caltwedt came from Norway in the early 1900's.

Mr. and Mrs. Severson and Mr. Severson's sister, Miss Marcene Severson, Nevada, Ia., a student at Northwest State College, will attend the funeral services Wednesday afternoon at McCallsburg.

[Chaney, Mary Maude]

Maryville Daily Forum

Monday     December 15, 1947    [p. 1]

Miss Mary M. Chaney Dies At Her Home in Hopkins

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Hopkins Methodist church for Miss [Mary] Maud [e] Chaney, who died yesterday at her home in Hopkins.  Miss Chaney, 42 years of age, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles [Allen] Chaney [Phoebe Christine Schley] of Hopkins, with whom she made her home.  She had been in ill health for several years.

Miss Chaney was born in Hopkins December 25, 1905 and had lived there most of her life.  Besides her parents, she is survived by a brother [Charles] Arthur Chaney of Lincoln, Neb.

The Rev. Vernon Wheeler will conduct the services and burial will be in the Hopkins cemetery.

[Chaney, Phoebe Christine Schley]

Maryville Daily Forum

Wednesday    April 27, 1955    p. 2

Mrs. Phoebe Christine Chaney, 69, Hopkins, died yesterday at 1:22 p. m. in the St. Francis Hospital. She died after a long illness.

Mrs. Chaney was born Sept. 6, 1885, in Hopkins where she lived all except three years of her life. The other three years she spent in Kansas.

Surviving her is one son [Charles] Arthur, and one granddaughter, both of Hopkins. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and the Hopkins Methodist Church.

Burial will be in the Hopkins cemetery. The Rev. Earl Griffith, pastor of the Methodist church, is in charge of the funeral at 2 p. m. Friday.

The Order of the Eastern Star will be in charge of the burial service.

The body is at state in the Swanson funeral home in Hopkins.

[Chaney, Richard Phillip]

Maryville Daily Forum

Thursday    January 23, 1947    [p. 1]

Richard P. Chaney Dies At His Home in Hopkins

Richard P. [hillip] Chaney, 63-year-old interior decorator of Hopkins, died at his home at 2 o'clock this morning following a short illness. He was a member of Xenia Lodge, No. 50, A. F. and A. M., and the O. E. S. of Hopkins. He was a past master and a past patron of these orders.

Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon in Hopkins. Burial will be in the Hopkins cemetery.

He was born December 15, 1883, in Hopkins, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. D. [avid] L. Chaney [Susan Palmer]. He spent his entire life in Hopkins.

He was married to Miss Irene Opal Aley in Maryville 29 years ago.

Besides his wife he is survived by one brother, Charles A. [llen] Chaney, Hopkins; three sisters, Mrs. Blanche Luther and Mrs. Jean Cantner, Bedford, and Mrs. Frank Abernathy of Little Rock, Ark.

[Chaney, Samuel M. "Sam"]

Maryville Daily Forum

Tuesday    October 6, 1942    p. 3

Sam Chaney Dies

Sam Chaney, 78 years of age, died at 4:14 o'clock this morning at the county infirmary where he had resided the past ten years. He suffered a heart attack two days ago.

Mr. Chaney was born March 5, 1864, at Bedford, Ia., the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. David L. Chaney [Susan Palmer]. He had formerly been in the blacksmith business at Hopkins.

Surviving are two brothers, Charles and Dick Chaney, Hopkins.

Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

[Chaney, Samuel M. "Sam"]

Maryville Daily Forum

Friday     October 9, 1942    p. 6

Hopkins

Funeral services were held Thursday at the Swanson funeral home for Samuel M. Chaney, 73 years of age, who died of a heart ailment at 4:15 o'clock Tuesday in Maryville.  The Rev. O. S. Lincoln of the First Christian church conducted the service and Mrs. O. S. Lincoln arranged the music.  Pallbearers were Frank New, Jr., Charles Lewis, Fred Yeomans, Gade Rusk, Charles Gray and Fred Reeder. Burial was in Hopkins cemetery.

[Hanna, Opal Charlene]

Maryville Daily Forum

Friday    June 14, 1940    [p. 1]

Opal Hanna Dies Of Infection From Splinter In Foot

Opal Charlene Hanna, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. [Henry] Edison Hanna [Bernice Hollensbe] of Pickering, died at 12:30 o'clock this morning at St. Francis hospital of tetanus infection resulting from a splinter in her foot.

The infection developed Monday, a week after she had run the splinter into her foot. She entered the hospital Monday.

Opal Charlene would have been 8 years old June 30.  She was born at the home of her maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hollensbe, eight miles northeast of Maryville.

Surviving are the parents, whose home is four miles southeast of Pickering; two brothers, Raymond Edison and David Eugene, and a sister, Maudie Karen, all of the home; the maternal grandparents and the paternal grandmother, Mrs. J.[ohn] H. [enry] Hanna [Elizabeth Neal]of Maryville.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the Price funeral home, conducted by Rev. K. J. Bressler of Pickering.  Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery near Maryville.

[Hollensbe, Charles Edward]

Maryville Daily Forum

Tuesday    August 4, 1953    [p. 1]

Charles Hollensbe, 79, Pickering, Dies Today

Charles Edward Hollensbe, Pickering, died at 2 o'clock this morning at the St. Francis hospital, where he had been a patient for three weeks.  The Hollensbe home is three and one-half miles southeast of Pickering.

Born Nov. 10, 1874 at Greensburg, Ind., Mr. Hollensbe was married Dec. 25, 1901 in Maryville to Mary Sharr, who survives.  Mr. Hollensbe had been a bridge contractor for 60 years and for Nodaway and surrounding counties for many years.

Besides his wife, he is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Leland Morrow [Maudie], Pickering; Mrs. Edison Hanna [Bernice] and Mrs. George Houston [Anna Bell], Maryville; one son, Lester [Harold] Hollensbe, Pickering; 10 grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Price funeral home, conducted by the Rev. L. B. Day.  Burial will be in Myrtle Tree cemetery northeast of Maryville.

[Hollensbe, John William]

Maryville Daily Forum

Saturday    March 7, 1953    [p. 1]

John Hollensbe, Former Pickering Resident, Dies

John [William] Hollensbe, age 76, Omak, Wash., died Thursday noon at his home following a stroke of paralysis.  He had been in ill health for a year.

Funeral services will be held Monday at the Precht funeral home in Omak.

Born in [April 16] 1877 in Greenburg [Indiana], Mr. Hollensbe came to Nodaway County  [?] years ago with his parents, who located on a farm east of Pickering.  He was married [April 9, 1900] to Cora [Frances] Rogers and lived in and around Pickering for years where he worked at bridge construction and repair in the county.  He moved to Omak ten years ago.

Survivors are his wife and son, John Weldon of the home and two daughters, Mrs. Charles Sadler and Mrs. Marion Fred, of Omak, and a brother, Charles [Edward] Hollensbe of southeast of Pickering; three grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Mrs. Anna Hollensbe of Maryville is a sister-in-law.

[Hollensbe, Mary Elizabeth Throckmorton]

Maryville Daily Forum

Monday      January 6, 1947     p. 2

Mrs. Theodore Hollensbe, A Pickering Resident, Dies

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Hollensbe, 94 years of age, died at 8:30 o'clock Sunday morning at her home near Pickering.   She and her husband, the late Theodore [Milton] Hollensbe, came to Pickering in 1892.  She had lived in the same house ever since.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Price funeral home.  Dr. G. A. Baldwin will be in charge of the services.   Burial will be in the Myrtle Tree Cemetery.

She was born March 27, 1852, in Oldenburg, Ind., the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Throckmorton [Elsie Vert]. She was a member of the Methodist church of Pickering.

Her survivors are two sons, Charles E. [dward] Hollensbe of Pickering and John Hollensbe of Omak, Wash.; 10 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.  A son, [Roy] Clifford, died in May 1918.

 

[Hudson, Ada Paralea Darneal]

Maryville Daily Forum

Thursday    June 22, 1944    p. 2

Mrs. Ada Hudson Dies; To Hold Funeral Friday

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Price funeral home for Mrs. Ada Paralea Hudson, 68 years old, who died at 4:40 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Otto Frazee, 220 South Saunders street.

Rev. Dewey I. Meranda, pastor of the First Christian church, will officiate.  Burial will be in Miriam cemetery.

Born February 14, 1876, at New Hampton, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Darneal, Mrs. Hudson had resided in Maryville thirty-five years. She was married May 14, 1893, to David C. Hudson, deceased. Mrs. Hudson, who had been ill two years, had resided with her daughter ten years. She was a member of the Christian church.

 

Besides Mrs. Frazee, she is survived by another daughter, Mrs. Beatrice Ashbaugh, Long Pine, Neb.; one brother, Bud Darneal, Bethany; one sister, Mrs. Jane Hunt, New Hampton, five grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

[Hudson, Ada Paralea Darneal]

Maryville Daily Forum

Saturday    June 24, 1944    p. 3

Hudson Rites Are Held

Funeral services were conducted here yesterday afternoon for Mrs. Ada Hudson of Maryville, who died Wednesday.  Rev. Dewey I. Meranda, pastor of the First Christian church, officiated.  Burial was in Miriam cemetery.

Music was furnished by Dr. A. C. Kruer, accompanied by Mrs. Harry Price.

Pallbearers were Ab Fite William Job, sr., P. H. More, Bert and Will Null and Thomas S. Young.

Flowers were in charge of Misses Thelma and Coletta Seipel, Kathleen Kissinger and Mary Margaret Miller.

[Innis, Don]

Maryville Daily Forum

Thursday    June 22, 1944    p. 2

Lieut. Innis Killed

Lieut. Don Innis, 28 years old, a veteran navy pilot and nephew of Miss Katie Lee Allan of Maryville, was killed Tuesday in a plane crash over Salton Sea, Calif. The information was received at Nevada, Mo. by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Innis.  Innis was testing navy planes in a new assignment, after having returned from duty in the Atlantic.  He joined the navy in 1940 and was stationed at Guadalcanal when Americans seized the island.

[Melvin, James Edwin]

Maryville Daily Forum

Saturday    April 24, 1948    [p. 1]

J. E. Melvin Dies; Had Been Farmer Near Hopkins

James Edwin Melvin, 85-year-old farmer of near Hopkins, died at 5:30 o'clock Friday afternoon at the home of his son, [Henry] Vern Melvin, one mile east of Hopkins.  He had lived in the Hopkins community the last 34 years.

Mr. Melvin was born February 13, 1863, in McDonough County, Illinois, and came to Taylor County, Iowa, when he was 14 years of age.  He became a member of the Baptist church at Gravity when he was a young man.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Hopkins Methodist church.  The Rev. Vernon Wheeler, pastor, will conduct the services.  Burial will be in the cemetery at Siam.  The Masonic lodge will have charge of the services at the grave.

He is survived by four sons, [Henry] Vern, of near Hopkins; Brice, Bedford, John M.[artin], Des Moines, and James W. [oodford], Clearmont, two daughters, Mrs. Leroy Johnson [Mary May], Gravity, Ia., and Mrs. Roy S. [amuel] Dillon [Susie Elizabeth], Blockton, Ia.; one brother, John A. [lan] Melvin, Coin, Ia., 21 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.   His wife died several years ago.

[Minor, Thomas Jefferson]

Maryville Daily Forum

Thursday    June 22, 1944    p. 2

Thomas J. Minor Dies

Thomas Jefferson Minor, 88 years old, formerly of Maryville, who resided on a farm fourteen miles south of McDonald, near Baldwin, Kas., died May 25 in a hospital at Colby, Kas., following an illness of four weeks.

Born October 13, 1855, at Berton, Wetzel county, W. Va., the son of the late William and Mary Showalter Minor, he moved with his parents to a farm near Walnut City, Ia., when he was 7 years of age.  He resided there until 1875, when he moved to Maryville and engaged in farming. In the spring of 1890 he moved to Fullerton, Neb. where the family lived until 1909, when they moved to the present residence.

On May 17, 1878, he was married at Maryville to Mary Haggard.  In 1884 he united with the Methodist church at Maryville.  For nineteen years he was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, also of the Modern Woodmen for a number of years.  For the first few years after going to Kansas he carried the Star mail route from McDonald to what was then known as the Minor post office, of which he was postmaster.

He is survived by his wife and twelve children.

[Traster, Fred]

Maryville Daily Forum

Tuesday     February 12, 1946    p. 6

Fred Traster Dies at His Home in Hopkins

Fred Traster, 54 years old of Hopkins, died of a heart attack about 6 o'clock last night at his home. He became ill late yesterday afternoon while working at the Peve Produce house. Mr. Traster had resided his entire life in the Hopkins community.

Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Maude [Mae] Douglas of Bedford, Ia., his mother, Mrs. M. D. Carmichael, Maryville, one son Kenneth Traster, Hopkins and four daughters, Mrs. Dean Meredith, state of Washington, Misses Lucile, Ermadene and Elizabeth Traster of the home.

Funeral services have been tentatively set for Friday, awaiting the [arrival?] of the daughter.

[Turner, Robert Dwane]

Maryville Daily Forum

Saturday    January 25, 1947    p. 3

Robert Turner, Bedford, Killed in Auto Accident

Robert [Dwane] Turner, 28-year-old Bedford, Ia., citizen, was instantly killed and three other persons were injured Friday morning when the car in which they were riding crashed into a ditch four miles north of Bedford.

The other persons in the car were Turner's wife [Wilma Thompson], Mr. Doyle Thompson and Cleo Thomas, all of Bedford.  Mr. Thompson is in a critical condition in a Clarinda, Ia. hospital. The others escaped with minor injuries.

Sheriff Harry Lucas of Bedford, who investigated the accident, stated that a tire blew out as the car was rounding a curve and as Turner attempted to regain control his sleeve caught on the light control switch, extinguishing the lights.

Mrs. Turner is the daughter of Elmer Thompson of Bedford, a former resident of Hopkins.