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Maryville Daily
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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.
Maryville Daily
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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.
Maryville Daily
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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.
Maryville Daily
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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.
Maryville Daily
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Monday May 8, 1944 p. 4
PARNELL
Wallace
Kennedy attended the funeral of James
Harvey Booth in Maryville
Tuesday.
Maryville Daily
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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
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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.
Maryville Daily
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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.
Maryville Daily
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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.
Maryville Daily
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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
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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.
Maryville Daily
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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.
Maryville Daily
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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.
Maryville Daily
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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.
Maryville Daily
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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.
Maryville Daily
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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.
Maryville Daily
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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
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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.
Maryville Daily
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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.
Maryville Daily
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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.
Maryville Daily
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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.
Maryville Daily
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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.
Maryville Daily
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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.
Maryville Daily
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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.
Maryville Daily
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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.