[ALLEN, THOMAS FRANK]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, December 13, 1965, p. 2
Thomas Allen, 93, Dies At St. Francis Hospital
Thomas Frank Allen, 93, Hopkins, died this morning at the St. Francis Hospital.

He was born Sept. 18, 1872, at Galesburg, Ill., the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Allen and was a retired farmer and had lived most of his life in and around Hopkins.

He is survived by one son, Cecil Allen, Hopkins, one grandson, Clifford Allen, Hopkins and four great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Swanson Funeral Home, Hopkins. Jerry Samples will officiate, and burial will be in the Hopkins Cemetery, Hopkins.

[ANDERSON, IDA ANN PRIVETT]
Kansas City Times (Kansas City, Missouri), Wednesday, December 24, 1958, p. 22
Hopkins—Mrs. Ida Anderson, 75; survivors include five daughters, a son, 24 grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren.

[ANDERSON, MOSES DOLPHUS]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, February 23, 1973, p. 8
Moses Anderson – Moses Dolphus Anderson, 87, St. Joseph, a former Hopkins resident, died at 10:45 a. m. Thursday en route to a St. Joseph hospital.
Born March 17, 1885, at Ava, Anderson was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Anderson. On Oct. 4, 1904 he was married at Ava to Miss Ida Ann Privett, who died Dec. 18, 1958. A retired farmer and a member of the Fairfax Presbyterian Church, Anderson moved two and one-half years ago to St. Joseph, where he resided with his son, Garth Anderson.

In addition to his son, he is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Emery Roberts, Skidmore, Mrs. Clifford Carter, National City, Calif., and Mrs. Raymond Whited, Hutchinson, Kan.; a sister, Mrs. Julia Haggard, Independence; 24 grandchildren; 78 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild.

Services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Swanson Funeral Home Chapel, Hopkins, with the Rev. Fred Paxton officiating. Burial will be in the Hopkins cemetery.

[APPLETON, IDA MAY OXLEY]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Wednesday, March 21, 1945, [p. 1]
Mrs. Ida Appleton Dies At Home East of Hopkins
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Swanson funeral home at Hopkins for Mrs. Ida May Appleton, 80 years old, who died at 11:45 o'clock Monday night at her home east of Hopkins.

The Rev. W. T. Hansford, pastor of the Methodist church of Hopkins, will officiate. Burial will be in the Hopkins cemetery.

Mrs. Appleton, who had resided in the Hopkins community seventy-eight years, was born January 13, 1865. She had been ill about a week. She was married to Ed Appleton, who died in 1932.

Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Nellie Stewart, Bloomington, Ill.; one son, Cecil Appleton, Hopkins, Hopkins; one brother, George Oxley, state of California, and two grandchildren, Ed and Harriett Appleton, Hopkins.

[BLANCHARD, CHARLENE ELOIS FOX]
Charlene Elois (Fox) Blanchard, daughter of Duane and Genevieve (Hopkins) Fox, was born, March 9, 1926 near Watson, Missouri and left this life on Sunday, February 13, 2011 at the Heartland Hospital in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Charlene graduated from the Clearmont High School in 1944. It was at Clearmont that she first met Dean Blanchard, her husband of 62 years. Charlene attended college at Tarkio for one semester and then worked as manager of the Brown's Shoe store in Shenandoah, Iowa until Dean returned from service. They were married on June 15, 1947 at the Methodist Church in Shenandoah, IA and began farming near Clearmont. To this marriage five children were born: Gerald, Brenda, Alan, Brian and Lyle.
Charlene always had a love of horses and began riding her Grandfather's workhorses. She was delighted as a child when Grandpa bought her a spotted mare named Beauty. When Dean and Charlene's farming operation had grown, Charlene made sure that horses were included in the livestock raised on the farm. Riding and going to horse shows was a fun family activity and Charlene raised many foals over the years. Charlene and Dean worked as partners on the farm in both the crop and livestock operation and rarely were apart. They were also active leaders in 4-H and the Nodaway County Extension Council. Charlene loved to travel and planned trips to various part of the U. S. whenever she could get Dean off of the farm. Dean and Charlene shared a love of the Lord and were active in Baptist churches at Clearmont, Hopkins, and then Laura Street.
Charlene was preceded in death by her husband, Dean; sons Gerald and Brian; granddaughter, Correne (Cox) Welch; and brother, Charles "Bud" Fox.
Left to remember her are: her daughter: Brenda (Ron) Cox, Bedford, Iowa; son: Alan (Kathy) Blanchard, Clearmont and son: Lyle Blanchard, Kansas City, Missouri; grandchildren: Fletcher (Rachael) Cox Denver, Colorado; Troy Cox, Denver, Colorado; Dustin and Jesse Blanchard, Clearmont; Ashley Blanchard, Maryville; and Shelby and Nate Blanchard, Kansas City, Missouri; brother: Merle (Ruth)Fox, Rock Port, Missouri; brothers-in-law: Glenn (Jean), Widefield, Colorado; Raymond (Pat), Dolan Springs, Arizona; sisters–in-law: Cathleen McIntyre, Shambaugh, Iowa; and Helen (LeRoy) Morrison, Maryville, Missouri.
Visitation is 5-6 pm, Thursday, February 17, 2011 at Price Funeral Home, Maryville, Missouri.
Funeral Services will be 2:30 pm Friday, February 18, 2011 at Price Funeral Home Chapel, Maryville with burial in Hopkins Cemetery, Hopkins, Missouri.
Memorials may be made to the Nodaway County 4-H Extension Council, 408 North Market Street, Maryville, Missouri 64468.
[Note: Online obituary made available by Price Funeral Home, Maryville, Missouri.]

[BLANCHARD, OPAL VIOLA BLACKFORD]
Clarinda Herald Journal (Clarinda, Iowa), Monday, January 5, 1976
Mrs Roy Blanchard born near Clearmont
Mrs Roy (Opal Viola) Blanchard, 69, of Hopkins died Friday in the hospital at St Joseph, Mo, and services were held Sunday at the First Christian Church at Hopkins with interment in the Hopkins cemetery.
Her husband, Roy Denver Blanchard preceded her in death.
They had been married on Oct 24, 1925, at the Methodist parsonage at Clarinda. She was born March 13, 1906 near Clearmont, Mo, to John Thomas and Alice Bernice Clark Blackford. Her parents, a sister, two grandsons and a great granddaughter preceded her in death.
Services were conducted by Rev Carl Hoff, with arrangements made by Swanson Funeral Home.
Bearers were Richard Ferguson, Jim Blackford, Ed Blackney, Donald Blackford, John Blackford and Richard Kline. Flower ladies were Mrs Richard Ferguson, Mrs Donald Blackford and Mrs Ed Blackney. Music was furnished by Mr and Mrs Richard Brand of Hopkins.
She is survived by three sons and two daughters, Roy Dean of Clearmont, Mo, Mrs Vera Cathleen Mclntyre of Shambaugh, Glen Marvin of Marshfield, Mo, Raymond Arthur of Marshfield and Mrs Helen Lee Morrison of Hopkins. She has 18 grandchildren, three great -grandchildren, three brothers, Eldon Blackford of Quitman, Mo, Lee Blackford of Clearmont and Ercille Blackford of Burlington Jct, Mo.

[BROWN, HENRY ALLEN "HANK"]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Wednesday, July 21, 1971, p. 12
Henry A. Brown, 75, Hopkins, Dies
Henry Allen Brown, 75, retired township maintenance operator, died at 1:45 a.m. today at a St. Joseph hospital where he had been a patient four days.
The son of the late Grant and Fannie Chambers Brown, he was born Aug. 31, 1896 at Elk Creek, Neb. He was married Nov. 9, 1919, at Elk Creek, to the former Miss Pansy Shew, who survives. He had resided in Hopkins since 1946 and had lived in the community for the past 51 years.

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Pansy Brown, of the home; three grandsons; one great-grandchild, and one brother, Harold "Mike" Brown, Maryville.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the First Christian Church, Hopkins, with the Rev. Fred B. Paxton officiating. Burial will be in the Hopkins Cemetery.
The body is at the Swanson Funeral Home, Hopkins.

[BROWN, HENRY ALLEN "HANK"]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, July 22, 1971, p. 8
Services Saturday For Henry Brown
Services for Henry Allen "Hank" Brown, 74, Hopkins, who died Wednesday morning at a St. Joseph hospital, will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the First Christian Church, Hopkins. The Rev. Fred B. Paxton will officiate, and burial will be in the Hopkins Cemetery.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Pansy Brown of the home; one son, Wesley A. Brown, Kansas City; one brother, Harold "Mike" Brown, Maryville, three grandsons and one great grandchild.

[BURCH, DELILAH PICKARD]
Creston News Advertiser (Creston, Iowa), Saturday, September 25, 1937, [p. 1]
Mrs. Deliah Burch, 84, of Hopkins, Mo., Died While Visiting Son Here
Mrs. Deliah [Delilah] Burch, 84, of Hopkins, Mo., died last evening at the home of her son, Frank Burch, 917 ½ West Montgomery, where she had been visiting for the past week.

Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 o'clock at the First Baptist church in Hopkins and burial will be in the cemetery there.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. H. C. Achmuty of Omaha and Mrs. E. C. Baragonier of Littletown, Colo., and another son, Otis Burch of Dixon, S. Dak.

[BURCH, DELILAH PICKARD]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Saturday, September 25, 1937, [p. 1]
Mrs. Delilah Burch Dies Hopkins Resident Dies at Son's Home at Creston, Ia.
Mrs. Delilah Burch, 82 years of age, a resident of Hopkins, died suddenly at 11 o'clock last night at the home of her son, Frank Burch, at Creston, Ia. She had been visiting at her son's home since Sunday.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Baptist church in Hopkins conducted by Rev. Ray Dick. Burial will be in the Hopkins cemetery.

Mrs. Burch is survived by four children, Frank Burch, Creston; Otis Burch, Dixson, S. D.; Mrs. Mabel Occhmutti, Omaha; and Mrs. Ollie Bragonier, Littleton, Colo.

[BURCH, DELILAH PICKARD]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, September 27, 1937, [p. 1]
Rites For Mrs. Burch Services Are Conducted Sunday at Hopkins Church
Funeral services for Mrs. Delilah Burch of Hopkins, who died Friday night at the home of her son, Frank Burch, at Creston, Ia., were conducted at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Hopkins Baptist church. Burial was in the Hopkins cemetery.

Mrs. Burch was the widow of Pleasant Burch, who has been dead nearly fifty years.

Mr. and Mrs. Homer Carmichael of this city attended the services, Mr. Carmichael being a nephew of the late Mrs. Burch.

[CHAMBERS, ALMA JANE DOWNING]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Sunday, August 13, 1978
Alma Jane Chambers, 97, a long-time resident of the Hopkins area, died Friday at a hospital in Pendleton, Ore., her residence since Sept. 1977.
She was born in Athelstan, Iowa, on Oct. 18, 1880 to the late James Riley and Louisa (Vardeman) Downing and married the late Harry Chambers. She was a member of the United Methodist Church.
Survivors include one son, Loren W. Chambers, Portland, Ore.; a daughter, Mrs. Earl (Maratien) Furth, Pendleton, Ore.; one granddaughter and three great grandchildren.
Services will be held Tuesday at 2 p. m. at the Swanson-Price Funeral Home with the Rev. Joyce Young officiating. Burial will be at Hopkins Cemetery.

[CLARK, ALLEN GLEN]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, August 30, 1974, p. 4
Allen Glen Clark, 81, Hopkins, a retired section foreman for the Burlington Railroad, died at 10:38 p.m. Wednesday at a King City nursing home, where he had been a patient two months.
Born July 11, 1893, at Hopkins, the son of the late William and Ida Frances Umbanhour [Umbanhower] Clark, he was a member of the First Christian Church, Hopkins. He was married to Nellie Hall, and then later on Oct. 26, 1935, he was married at Rock Port to Fern Young, who died Dec. 22, 1966. He was a veteran of World War I.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs Dorsey Conn, Tarkio; a son, Eugene Clark, Santa Cruz, Calif.; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Art Kane, Kansas City, Kan.; a stepson, Hilton Mick, Hopkins, two brothers, Loren Clark, McMinnville, Ore., and Roy Clark, Bonners Ferry, Idaho; a half-brother, Robert Nicola, Council Bluffs, Iowa, and a half-sister, Mrs. Mark Davis, Hopkins.
Funeral services will be held at 1 30 p.m. Saturday at the Swanson Funeral Home. Hopkins Burial will be in the Hopkins Cemetery.

[CLARK, LIDIA FERN ROUSE MICK YOUNG]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, December 22, 1966, [p. 1]
Mrs. Lidia Clark, 79, Dies in Nursing Home
Mrs. Lidia Fern Clark, 79, Hopkins, died at 8:30 a. m. at a Clearmont nursing home where she had been a resident for three days.

She was born Oct. 28, 1887, Grinnell, Kans. and was the daughter of the late William and Tobitha Way Rouse. She was married Apr. 14, 1935 at Rock Port, to Glen Clark who survives.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a. m. Saturday at the Swanson's Funeral Home, Hopkins. The Rev. Gerald Sappington will officiate, and burial will be in the Hopkins Cemetery.

Other survivors include two daughters, Mrs. William Higgens, Kansas City; and Mrs. Clinton Hawley, Kansas City, Kas.; one son, Hilton Mick, Hopkins; 16 grandchildren and 31 great grandchildren.

[CONN, JOHN RILEY]
Clarinda Herald Journal (Clarinda, Iowa), Thursday, December 8, 1966, [p. 1]
John Conn rites to be at Fairfax
BLANCHARD (Special) – Mrs Willard Morley received word late Tuesday of the death of John Conn, a brother-in-law, in the Fairfax Hospital. He had seemed to be getting better after a heart attack.

Funeral services were to be Thursday in Fairfax. A sister, Mrs. Alfred Sparks, is here from Camas, Wash.

Another sister, Mrs Basil Frazier, had surgery in Rochester, Minn, Tuesday and in the evening Mrs Morley received a telephone message that the doctors found cancer in the back, neck and spleen.

[FINE, LELA MAY RUSSELL]
Creston News Advertiser (Creston, Iowa), Saturday, August 17, 1929, p. 11
Lela May Russell – Lela May Russell was born near Hopkins, Mo., March 29, 1896, and died Aug. 12, 1929, at Creston, age 32 years, four months and 14 days. She grew to young womanhood in the vicinity of her birthplace and after the death of her mother July 16, 1913, kept house for her father, Henry A. Russell, for several years. She then taught school for one year and later was a very efficient and faithful assistant in the Hopkins post office. On April 22, 1923, she was united in marriage to Earl Fine and the young couple at once made Creston their home where she lived until called in death. Besides the sorrowing husband and two small children, Homer Leon, age 5, and Elizabeth Louise, age 3, she leaves to mourn for her the father, H. A. Russell, one sister, Miss Beula, of Hopkins, and two brothers, Galen, of Hopkins, and Frank, of Denver. One brother, Mack, died Dec. 8, 1918. She is also survived by her aged grandmother and other relatives.
She had every care that could be given by the family, the nurses and skilled physicians but death was the victor. Lela was a charter member of the O. E. S. lodge of Hopkins and the members attended the funeral services in a body to pay their last respects to a sister whom they all loved and admired on account of her many virtues and her happy disposition. She became a member of the Hopkins Methodist church March 28, 1909, transferring her membership to the church in Creston after moving to that city, and lived up faithfully to the vows taken. She was always active in church, lodge and social circles, loved her home and her family, always ready to assist anyone in distress and will be sadly missed, not only in the home but by the people of both the Hopkins and Creston communities.
Funeral and burial services were held at Hopkins.

[FLOREA, LILLIE A. READER]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, March 7, 1940, p. 2
Mrs. Lillie Florea Dies
Death of Former Hopkins Resident Occurs at Colorado Springs
Mrs. Lillie Florea, 67 years of age, a former resident of Hopkins, died yesterday at her home in Colorado Springs, Colo. Mrs. Florea was the widow of E. J. Florea and left Hopkins about twenty years ago.

The body will arrive in Hopkins Saturday evening and will be taken to the Young funeral home. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon, the place to be decided upon by the family upon their arrival with the body.

Mrs. Florea is survived by three children, Park Florea, Mrs. Eva Harness and Miss Marie Florea, all of Colorado Springs and two grandchildren, Doris and Duane Florea.

[FLOREA, LILLIE A. READER]
Blockton News (Blockton, Iowa), Thursday, March 21, 1940
W. G. Florea and wife attended the Mrs. Lillie A. Florea funeral at Hopkins the first of last week. Mrs. Florea died at her home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the age of 68 years.

[FRIEND, HAZEL LENNA OLMSTED]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, May 27, 1986
Hazel Olmstead-Friend – Hazel Lenna Olmstead-Friend, 90, Longmont, Colo., died Saturday (May 24, 1986) at a hospital in Longmont.

She was born June 27, 1895, near Siam, Iowa, to Fred and Elizabeth Garner Olmstead.

She married Ora Edgar Friend on Dec. 25, 1915.

A former resident of Hopkins and Graham, Mrs. Olmstead-Friend taught school before retiring. She formerly taught at Prairie Flower near Hopkins before her marriage.

She was a Methodist.

She was preceded in death by her husband on Dec. 17, 1974; a daughter, Dorothy Linville, on May 10, 1984; four brothers, Clyde, Earl, Roy and Clarence Olmstead; and a sister, Neva Olmstead.

She is survived by one son, Edgar Lee Friend, Skidmore; one daughter, Mary Ellen Florea, Longmont; seven grandchildren; 12 great grandchildren; one great great grandson; one brother, Maurice (Vern) Olmstead; and several nieces and nephews.

Graveside services are set for 10:30 a. m. Wednesday (May 28, 1986) at Hopkins Cemetery. Joyce Nicholas will officiate.
Swanson-Price Funeral Home is in charge of services.

[FRIEND, HAZEL LENNA OLMSTED]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, May 29, 1986
Olmstead-Friend services held
Graveside services for Hazel L. Olmstead-Friend, 90, Longmont, Colo., who died Saturday (May 24, 1986) in Longmont, were 10:30 a. m. Wednesday (May 28, 1986) at Hopkins Cemetery.

Joyce Nicholas officiated.

Pallbearers were Rick Flores, Larry Linville and Wilson Ward.
Price Funeral Home Inc., Maryville, was in charge of services.

[FRIEND, ORA EDGAR]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, December 17, 1974, p. 4
Ora Friend, 83, Dies in Colorado
Word has been received here of the death of Ora E. Friend, 83, who died suddenly this morning at his home at Longmont, Colo. He was a former resident of the Hopkins, Graham and Maryville communities.
The body will be brought to the Swanson Funeral Home, Hopkins, where arrangements are pending.

[FRIEND, ORA EDGAR]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Wednesday, December 18, 1974, p. 4A
Ora Friend - Ora Friend, 83-year-old retired farmer, former Nodaway County resident, died suddenly at 6 a.m. Tuesday at his home in Longmont, Colo.

Born Aug. 14, 1891, at Hopkins, the son of the late William and Verna Andrews Friend, he retired in 1952 after farming in this area, and moved to Colorado. On Dec. 25, 1915, he was married at Hopkins to Hazel Olmsted, who survives. He was a member of the Longmont First United Methodist Church.
Besides his wife of the home, he is survived by one son, Edgar Friend, Maryville; two daughters, Mrs. Harlen Linville, Graham, and Mrs. Faye Florea Jr., Longmont; one sister, Mrs. Olieva McGuire, Canyon Country, Calif.; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren and two nieces.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Swanson Funeral Home, Hopkins, with the Rev. Rick Gressman officiating. Burial will be in the Hopkins Cemetery. The body will arrive tonight at the funeral home.

[GRAVES, MARY ALVINA MOREHOUSE RICHEY]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, April 12, 1940, p. 2
Mrs. Mary Graves Dies; Funeral Set for Sunday
Mrs. Mary Graves of Burlington Junction, age 70, died at 3 o'clock this morning at the St. Francis hospital where she had been a patient since April 1. Mrs. Graves, who had been in ill health for some time, was found unconscious that morning on the porch of her home in Burlington Junction by a neighbor. She had suffered a paralytic stroke.

Mrs. Graves was born near Hopkins and had lived almost all of her life in the Burlington Junction vicinity. When she was 16 years of age she was married to Phillip Richey, who died in 1907. Her second marriage to Jeff Graves took place in 1919. He died in January 1939.

Mrs. Graves is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Hattie Buchanan, Clark Fork, Idaho, Mrs. Dora Kleinegger, Wichita, Kas., and Mrs. Earl Clark, Cheney, Kas., and two sons, Bryan Richey, Hopkins, and Raymond Richey, Wichita.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Methodist church in Burlington Junction, conducted by Rev. Ted Masters. Burial will be in Myrtle Tree cemetery, northeast of Maryville.

[HARLAN, MINERVA J. STRAIN]
The Solid Muldoon (Ouray, Colorado), Friday, February 13, 1891, p. 3
HARLAN – In Ouray, Colorado, on February 11th 1891, at 11:15 a. m., of pneumonia, Mrs. Minerva J., wife of W. H. Harlan, aged 39 years.
Mrs. Harlan was born in Rockville, Indiana, and leaves a husband and three children. Her death may be attributed to a complete giving away of the nervous system, caused by care and anxiety in nursing her son Earl, who has been dangerously ill with pneumonia, than to the disease to which her death is credited. She was a loyal wife, a model mother and a woman whose virtues of hand and heart endeared her to all with whom she came in contact. Her body was expressed to Hopkins, Missouri, this morning for interment.

[HEPBURN, WILLIAM]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, January 23, 1913, [p. 1]
Died in Canada

Thomas Hepburn of Hopkins received word Tuesday of the death of his son, William Hepburn, at Regina, Canada. The young Mr. Hepburn and his family have been living in Canada for the past ten years. He was born and reared at Hopkins and win the harness business when he left there to engage in the same business in Canada. No particulars concerning his death have been received by his relatives here.

[KYSAR, MURRELL ELIZABETH BROWNING]
Springfield News-Leader (Springfield, Missouri), Sunday, April 18, 1993, p. 16
Murrell Elizabeth Kysar, 81
BRANSON – Cremation for Murrell Elizabeth Kysar, Branson was under direction of Greenlawn Funeral Home, Branson. No services are planned. Burial will be at a later date.
Mrs. Kysar, a homemaker, died at 8:30 p. m. Friday in Skaggs Community Hospital.

[LASLEY, VELMA FAYE PARKER]
Velma Faye Lasley, the daughter of Joseph W. and Bessie E. Downey Parker was born April 14, 1917 in Athelstan, Iowa. She died suddenly on Sunday, May 6, 2001 at the Good Samaritan Center in Red Oak, Iowa at the age of 84 years and 22 days.
Velma was raised in the Sheridan, Missouri area. Velma was united in marriage to Dale C. [larence] Lasley on December 2, 1932 at Grant City, Missouri. They lived in the Sheridan, Missouri area until moving to Red Oak, Iowa in l951. Velma was a homemaker and had worked in some restaurants. She was a member of the United Methodist Church and American Legion Auxiliary Post #515, both in Sheridan, Missouri. Velma was preceded in death by her parents; son, Jerry; daughter, Dola; 2 sisters and 10 brothers.
Velma is survived by her husband, Dale C. [larence] Lasley of Red Oak, Iowa; son, Irvin Lasley and his wife Sharon of Elliott, Iowa; 13 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren and 28 great-great-grandchildren; 2 sisters: Dorothy Weese of Winterset, Iowa; and Avis Sleep of Bedford, Iowa; other relatives and friends.
Sellergren-Lindell-DeMarce Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
[On line obituary made available by Sellergren-Lindell-DeMarce Funeral Home, Red Oak, Iowa.]

[MCMILLEN, JOHN ALLEN]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, January 24, 1913, p. 6
Hopkins
Tuesday morning little John, the 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar McMillian [McMillen] died at the home, four miles west of Hopkins, after but a short illness.
Rev. Baker of the Christian church conducted the services, which were held at the home on Wednesday afternoon. Interment in Hopkins cemetery.

[MESSNER, PHILIP LAVON]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, June 7, 1935, [p. 1]
Philip Messner, Age 25, of Near Ravenwood, Dies
Philip L. [avon] Messner, age 25, a farmer living near Ravenwood, died at 8 o'clock this morning in a St. Joseph hospital where he had been for the past nine days.

He was born near Ravenwood, March 15, 1910, the the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Messner, and was married June 16, 1928, to Miss Viola Marie Ross, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Ross, west of Maryville.

Besides the widow and parents, surviving are two children, Grace Helen and Valda Gene, at home; four brothers, Emmett, Joseph, Lloyd and Floyd Messner, all of Ravenwood; five sisters, Mrs. Elmer Robinson, Mrs. Eldon Coffelt, Mrs. Jessie Spoonemore, Ravenwood; Mrs. Lester David, Hopkins; Miss Wilma Messner, at home.

Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

[MESSNER, PHILIP LAVON]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Saturday, June 8, 1935, [p. 1]
Messner Rites Sunday
Services to be Conducted at 2 O'Clock in Ravenwood Church
The funeral for Philip L. [avon] Messner, age 26, who died yesterday morning in a St. Joseph hospital, will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Christian church in Ravenwood. Burial will be in Ravenwood cemetery.

[MYERS, HARRISON]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, July 28, 1911, [p. 1]
Pioneer of Hopkins
Harrison Myers Passes Away Friday Morning At St. Francis Hospital
Was Seventy-One Years Old—Had Been a Sufferer from Dropsy for Two Years
Harrison Meyers of Hopkins died at St. Francis hospital in this city Friday morning about 5 o'clock after an illness extending over the past few years. He was a sufferer from dropsy and was brought to St. Francis hospital in this city last Friday from Hopkins.

The remains were taken to Hopkins on the noon Burlington train Friday, accompanied by S. A. Fleming and Harry Clutter of Hopkins, and the funeral will be held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock at the house, in charge of the Masons, Rev. Foster of the M. E. church of that place to conduct the services. Interment will take place in the Hopkins cemetery.

Harrison Meyers was born in Holmes county, Ohio, November 26, 1840. He enlisted in Company D, Sixteenth Ohio infantry, in 1861, and was in many a battle during the civil war. He received an honorable discharge October 31, 1864.

He was married to Miss Elizabeth McCoy in Ohio, April 19, 1866, and she died in Hopkins in 1908. To this union were born two daughters, who died in infancy.

Mr. Meyers came to Missouri in 1871 and settled on a farm about one mile north of Hopkins, where he lived until 1900, when he moved to Hopkins. He was one of the early settlers of Hopkins and had watched her grow from a small village to a town of 1,000 inhabitants.

He was chairman of the Republican county committee many years ago and was quite a Republican politician in this county. He was also a prominent Mason, being a member of the lodge at Hopkins, and also a member of the G. A. R. He sang in the choir of the M. E. church of Hopkins and was a leader of the band at that place for many years.

No living relatives survive. Robert M. Hook of Hopkins is a brother-in-law of Mr. Meyers. About six months ago Mr. Meyers became so afflicted that he had to have attention, so the Masonic lodge of that place has cared for him. He drew a pension, which was recently increased and turned it over to the Masonic lodge of Hopkins.
Mr. Meyers was one of the respectable citizens of Hopkins. He was one of the brightest and deepest thinkers in this part of the state.
[Note: The last name is spelled Myers on his civil war headstone and on his Missouri State Death Certificate. Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958 gives the marriage date as May 17, 1866 in Coshocton County, Ohio.]

[NICHOLSON, MARK EVERETT]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, September 27, 1963, p. 2
Mark E. Nicholson Dies At Hopkins
Mark Everest [Everet] Nicholson, 63, Hopkins, retired farmer, died Thursday at his home.

He was born June 12, 1900, at Royal, Ia., the son of the late Walter F. and Eunice Presnall Nicholson. He was married Aug. 4, 1928, to Miss Valta Ringgold, who died July 18, 1962. Mr. Nicholson was a member of the Pickering Methodist Church and the Pickering Lions Club. He had resided at the present farm home 27 years.

[NICHOLSON, RUSSELL PRESNALL]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Saturday, June 26, 1965, [p. 1]
Russell Nicholson, Hopkins Farmer, Dies
Russell P. Nicholson, 69-year-old Hopkins farmer, died at 10:45 p. m. Friday at the St. Francis Hospital where he had been a patient four weeks.

Born June 16, 1896, at Royal, Ia., he had resided in the Hopkins community 58 years. On Mar. 6, 1921, he was married at Gaynor to Miss Mary Killam, who survives.

Mr. Nicholson was a member of the Wray Memorial Methodist Church, the Glen Ulmer American Legion Post and the Nodaway Barracks 2477, Maryville. He was a veteran of World War I.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Howard Stringer, Hopkins, and Mrs. Phillip Zapf, Maryville; two sons, Herbert Nicholson, Hopkins, and Dr. Lewis Nicholson, South Bend, Ind.; two brothers, Dr. David Nicholson, Kirkwood, and Emery Nicholson, St. Joseph; two sisters, Mrs. Bessie Killam, Hopkins, and Mrs. Matt Smith, Kearney, and five grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Monday at the Wray Memorial Methodist Church. Burial will be in the Hopkins Cemetery. The body is at the Swanson Funeral Home.

[NICHOLSON, VALTA VESTA RINGGOLD]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, July 19, 1962, p. 9
Mrs. Nicholson Dies Wednesday in Hospital
Mrs. Valta Vesta Nicholson, 57, Hopkins resident, died at 4:30 p. m. Wednesday at St. Francis Hospital.

Mrs. Nicholson was born Oct. 17, 1904 at Hopkins, the daughter of Rufus and Bertha Johnson Ringgold. She was married Aug. 4, 1928, at Shenandoah, Ia., to Mark Nicholson, who survives.

She was a graduate of Maryville High School and was a member of the Methodist Church at Pickering.

Survivors include her husband and a son, A1C George Nicholson, Lincoln, Neb.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Friday at the Methodist Church at Pickering with the Rev. Dwight Kessler officiating. Burial will be in a Hopkins cemetery.

The body is at Swanson Funeral Home, Hopkins.

[NOAKES, MARY JOSEPHINE AULT TURNER]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Saturday, June 27, 1970, p. 6
Mrs. Josephine Noakes Dies In St. Joseph
Mrs.[Mary] Josephine Noakes, 81, Maryville, died at 6 p. m. Friday at a St. Joseph hospital where she had been a patient for eight days following a five weeks illness.

She was born June 23, 1889, at Burlington Jct., and was the daughter of the late Andrew and Sarah Graves Ault. She was married July 3, 1943, to William J. [abez] Noakes, who preceded her in death July 16, 1967. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. Monday at the Price Funeral Home. Dr. F. Hauser Winter will officiate, and burial will be in the Hopkins Cemetery.

She is survived by one stepson, Horace Noakes, Hopkins; and three stepdaughters, Mrs. Arlie Shelman, Parnell; Mrs. Graham Edwards, La Puente, Calif., and Mrs. Ester Olmsted, Coin, Ia.; 12 grandchildren, 24 great grandchildren, and several cousins.

[NOAKES, MARY JOSEPHINE AULT TURNER]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, June 30, 1970, [p. 1]
Final Rites Held For Mrs. Noakes
Final rites were held at 3 p. m. Monday at the Price Funeral home for Mrs. Josephine Noakes, Maryville, who died Friday.

Dr. F. Hauser Winter officiated, and burial was in the Hopkins Cemetery.

Mrs. Bill Smith, accompanied by Mrs. Larry Dack, organist, sang "How Great Thou Art" and "Sunrise Tomorrow."

Serving as pallbearers were Jim Waldron, Wilbur Noakes, Howard Ringold, Bill Shelman, Gayland Myers and Harlan Plummer.

In charge of the flowers were Mrs. Melba Bentley, Mrs. Waldron, Mrs. William Shelman and Mrs. Myers.

[NOAKES, ELLA FANNIE LILLEY]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, December 23, 1940, [p. 1]
Mrs. William Noakes Dies, Funeral to Be at Hopkins
Mrs. William Noakes, 50 years of age, died at 5:45 o'clock yesterday morning at the St. Francis hospital, after a ten-day illness.

Mrs. Noakes, the former Ella Fannie Lilley, was born September 14, 890, at Adrian, Neb., and was married to William J. [abez] Noakes June 3, 1906 at Clarinda, Ia. They resided five miles northwest of Hopkins for about eighteen years and since March had been living five miles northeast of Maryville. She was a member of the Methodist church.

She is survived by her husband; three daughters, Mrs. Florence Shelman, Anderson, Ia., Mrs. Lillian Olmsted, Shenandoah, and Mrs. Nora Belle Edwards, Hopkins; one son, Horace Noakes, Hopkins; one brother, Walter Lilley, St. Louis; two sisters, Mrs. Edith Byers of Hopkins and Mrs. Nora Casey, North Hollywood, Calif., and seven grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Methodist church in Hopkins with Rev. Paul Barton officiating. Burial will be in the Hopkins cemetery.

[NORTON, AMOS ARVAL]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Wednesday, February 25, 1914, [p. 1]
Amos A. Horton [Norton] of Hopkins died Wednesday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Paul Laipple, of pneumonia. He was past 82 years old. The funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at the home.

[NORTON, AMOS ARVAL]
Bedford Free Press (Bedford, Iowa), Tuesday, March 10, 1914
Amos Norton Dead.
Amos Norton died last week in Hopkins at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Paul Laipple.
Deceased was born in Augusta, Me., in July 1832, he having lived to the ripe old age of 82.
He was married in 1853 at Ladoga, Ind. and from this union 8 children were born, five of whom are still living. The only children in this vicinity, however, are Mrs. Laipple of Hopkins and Charles Norton of Bedford.
Mr. Norton served through the Civil war in the Ninety-fifth Illinois and came with his family to Taylor county in 1882, where he lived until moving to Hopkins a few years ago.
Funeral services were held at the Christian church, Hopkins, conducted by Elder Harley Swift, the pastor. Interment was in the Hopkins cemetery.

[NOLES, MAUD MOBLEY ROOT]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, January 19, 1953, [p. 1]
Services Wednesday For Mrs. Maude Noles
Mrs. Maude Noles, age 75, died at 1:50 a. m. today at her home in Hopkins. She had lived in Hopkins for 64 years. The body is at the Swanson funeral home.

Mrs. Noles, born Dec. 19, 1877, in Hartsville, Ind., is survived by five daughters, Mrs. George Worley, Mrs. William Foster, Mrs. Raymond Bridgewater and Mrs. Albert Gill, all of Hopkins and Mrs. Rex Hopple, King City, and a sister, Mrs. Will Mahan, Bedford.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. Wednesday at the Baptist church in Hopkins, conducted by the Rev. Norman Lewis. Burial will be in the Hopkins cemetery.

[OLMSTED, ELIZABETH CATHERINE GARNER]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, October 28, 1963, [p. 1]
Mrs. Elizabeth Olmsted Dies In Colorado
Mrs. Elizabeth Olmsted, 96, longtime resident of Hopkins, died Friday at Longmont, Colo., where she had lived the past 12 years.

She is survived by three sons, one daughter, one stepson, Clyde Olmsted, Hopkins, one stepdaughter, nine grandchildren, three great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren.
Funeral services and burial were held today at Hopkins.

[OLMSTED, ELIZABETH CATHERINE GARNER]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Wednesday, October 30, 1963, p. 2
Ora Friends Attend Olmsted Rites Monday
Mr. and Mrs. Ora Friend returned to their home at Longmont, Colo., today after attending the funeral services for Mrs. Friend's mother, Mrs. Fred Olmsted Monday at Hopkins.

[OLMSTED, FRANKLIN AURORA "FRANK"]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, March 3, 1932, [p. 1]
Frank Olmstead, a Hopkins Hotel Owner, Is Dead
Frank Olmstead, age 75, proprietor of the Olmstead Hotel in Hopkins for nineteen years, died at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon at his home. Mr. Olmstead had lived in this county for fifty-nine years.

He was born August 24, 1856 in Gallia county, Ohio.

Surviving are his wife, three daughters, Mrs. Jack Estes, Pickering; Mrs. John Galey, Neosho, Mo.; Mrs. Otis Bebout, Buffalo, Wyo.; a brother, Fred Olmstead, Hopkins.
Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

[OLMSTED, FRANKLIN AURORA"FRANK"]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, March 4, 1932, [p. 1]
Olmstead Rites Today
Funeral Services Are Conducted For Frank Olmstead at Hopkins
Funeral services for Frank Olmstead, Hopkins hotel owner, who died Wednesday, were conducted at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at the hotel in Hopkins, conducted by the Rev. J. Howard Thompson, pastor of the Hopkins M. E. church. Burial was in the Hopkins cemetery.
[Note: His last name is spelled Olmsted on his headstone.]

[OLMSTED, MAGGIE EDNA BALDWIN]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, October 18, 1948, [p. 1]
Mrs. Frank Olmsted Dies At Daughter's Home Here
Mrs. Frank Olmsted, 80-year-old Hopkins resident, died at 3:30 o'clock this morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bert Hiatt, 724 South Mulberry Street. She has been at the home of her daughter the past year.

Mrs. Olmsted was the widow of Frank Olmsted who owned and operated the Hopkins hotel.

Besides her daughter, Mrs. Hiatt, she is survived by two other daughters, Mrs. A. [ncil] L. [eaman] Estes, Hopkins, and Mrs. Otis Bebout, Hudson, Wyo., and two brothers, Frank Baldwin, Imperial, Neb., and Arba Baldwin, California.
Funeral arrangements are pending. The body is at the Swanson funeral home.

[OLMSTED, MAGGIE EDNA BALDWIN]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, October, 19, 1948, p. 4
Olmsted Rites Wednesday
Funeral services for Mrs. Frank Olmsted of Hopkins will be held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Swanson funeral home in Hopkins. Mrs. Olmsted died early Monday morning at the home of her daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hiatt, 724 South Mulberry street, where she had resided the past year. Burial will be in the Hopkins cemetery.

[O'RILEY, LELAND WILFRED]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, July 14, 1978
Leland Wilfred O'Riley, 66, Hopkins, died Thursday at the St. Francis Hospital.
A resident of Hopkins since 1929, he was a mechanic for State Line Oil. He was also a member of the Wray Memorial United Methodist Church, Hopkins.
Born Jan. 27, 1912 in Corning, Iowa, he was the son of Wilfred and Cora (Schaffer) O'Riley. He was married Dec. 18, 1938 in Maryville to Thelma Joyner, who survives of the home.
Other survivors are three sons, Randall O'Riley, Montgomery, Ala., Wayne O'Riley, Oklahoma City, Okla., and Garland O'Riley, Hopkins; one daughter, Mrs. Claude Smith, Kansas City, Kan.; six grandchildren; three step grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Harley Whaley, Hopkins; one brother, Virgil O'Riley, Willamina, Ore.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at the Wray Memorial United Methodist Church with the Rev. Joyce Young officiating. Burial will be in a Hopkins cemetery.

[O'RILEY, WILFRED WILLIAM]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Saturday, June 8, 1963, [p. 1]
WILFRED W. O'RILEY DIES TODAY AT HOPKINS
Wilfred William O'Riley, 79, Hopkins, died at 12:10 a. m. today at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Harley Whaley, following a long illness. He had resided at the Whaley home the past two years.

He was born Sept. 12, 1883, at Cameron, Ill., the son of the late Charles and Mary Valentine O'Riley. He was married May 4, 1910, to Cora Schaffer, who died Oct. 6, 1954.
Mr O'Riley, who was a member of the Wray Memorial Methodist Church, Hopkins, had resided at Hopkins the past 74 years. He was a retired farmer.
In addition to his daughter he is survived by three sons, Leland O'Riley, Hopkins, and Earl O'Riley and Virgil O'Riley, Willamina, Ore.; three sisters, Mrs. Homer Houck, Villisca, Ia., Mrs. Clyde Wilkie, Brooks, Ia., and Mrs. Ed McMorron, Nodaway, Ia.; three brothers, Henry O'Riley, Prescott, Ia., Roy O'Riley, Mojave, Cal., and Ross O'Riley, Artesian, S. D.
Funeral services will be held at the Wray Memorial Methodist Church with Jerry Samples, minister of the Church of Christ, officiating. Burial will be in the Hopkins Cemetery. Other arrangements have not been completed.
The body is at the Swanson Funeral Home, Hopkins.

[ORME, DAISY ELLEN SHORES]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, August 13, 1942
Mrs. Daisy Orme Dies at her home in Hopkins
Mrs. Daisy Ellen Orme, wife of James Albert Orme of Hopkins died at 9:30 o'clock last night at her home in Hopkins.
Mrs. Orme, who was 60 years old, had been in poor health for six years and seriously ill for the past year. She was born Feb. 27, 1882 in Surry, County, N. Carolina and was married Aug. 1, 1900 to James Orme in Hopkins. She was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist church in Nevada, Iowa.
Surviving Mrs. Orme are her husband, two daughters, Mrs. William Ingels of Hopkins, Mrs. Archie Burns of Clarinda, Iowa, one son, Lloyd Orme of Kansas City, Kansas and seven grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the Baptist Church in Hopkins with burial in Hopkins Cemetery.

[ORME, LULU MAE STURGEON]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, March 12, 1976, p. 4
Mrs. Lulu Mae Orme
Mrs. Lulu Mae Orme, Hopkins, who would have been 90 years old Sunday, died at 4:20 a.m. today at the St. Francis Hospital, where she had been a patient since early in January.

Born March 14, 1886, at Grant City, she was the daughter of the late Hebron and Lou Dema Sheets Sturgeon. On Nov. 13, 1903, she was married at the home of her parents near Hopkins to Everett Orme, who died Jan. 14, 1975. She was a member of the Hopkins First Christian Church.
She is survived by a daughter, Miss Opal Orme, of the home, and two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Roy (Bertha) Sturgeon and Mrs. Ben (Ola) Ingels, Hopkins.
Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Hopkins First Christian Church with the Rev. Fred Paxton, assisted by the Rev. Carl Hoff, officiating. Burial will be in the Hopkins Cemetery. The body is at the Swanson Funeral Home.

[ORME, MARION EVERETT]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, January 14, 1975, p.3
M. Everett Orme - M. [arion] Everett Orme, 88, Hopkins, died at 5:05 a.m. today at the St. Francis Hospital, where he had been a patient two days.

He was born May 22, 1886, near Hopkins, the son of the late Nathaniel and Martha Carmichael Orme. On Nov. 3, he and his wife, the former Mae Sturgeon observed their 71st wedding anniversary. They were married in 1903 at Hopkins at the home of Mrs. Orme's parents.
A retired farmer and Mobil Oil agent, he was a member of the Hopkins Baptist Church, charter member of Hopkins Lions Club and the Hopkins Community Club of which he had served as president.
Besides his wife of the home, he is survived by a daughter, Miss Opal M. Orme, Hopkins.
Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Hopkins First Christian Church, with the Rev. Fred Paxton officiating. Burial will be in the Hopkins Cemetery. The body is at the Swanson Funeral Home, Hopkins.

[PALMER, RONALD S.]
Clarinda Herald Journal (Clarinda, Iowa), Thursday, September 24, 1942, p. 6
New Market, Sept 21 – Mrs. Dana Taylor attended the funeral of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Palmer's baby in Hopkins Thursday.

[PARENT, JOSEPHINE PALMER]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Wednesday, July 21, 1954, p. 2
Mrs. Royal Walter Parent, 79, whose home was seven miles east of Hopkins, died at 9:50 o'clock Tuesday night at the St. Francis hospital where she was a patient for one day and had been ill only two days. Before moving east of Hopkins, she had lived for 14 years in the Barnard community and most of her married life in the Maryville and Barnard vicinity. She was a member ot the Methodist church.
Born March 27, 1876 near Quitman, Mrs. Parent is survived, in addition to her husband to whom she was married Feb. 12, 1895, by three sons, Willis Parent, Conway, Ia.; Emmett Parent, Kidder; Marvin, Fresno, Calif.; six daughters, Mrs. Guilford McKee, Vancouver, Wash.; Mrs. Cecil Lund, Kansas City; Elsie Parent, Manitou Springs, Colo.; Miss Hazel Parent, of the home; Mrs. George Becker, Readville, Mass.; Mrs. J. C. Woner, Jr., Kansas City; 12 grandchildren; 14 great grandchildren, and one brother, Bert Palmer, Minneapolis, Kas.
Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Price funeral chapel and burial will be in the Myrtle Tree cemetery.

[PARENT, ROYAL WALTER]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, March 17, 1971, p. 12
Royal W. Parent Dies At KC Hospital
Royal W. Parent, 99, Sheridan, died this morning at a Kansas City hospital. He was born Jan. 25, 1872 and was married Feb. 12, 1895, to the former Miss Josephine Palmer, who preceded him in death, July 20, 1954. He was a retired farmer.

Survivors include three sons, Willis Parent, Conway, Ia., Emmitt Parent, Marshfield, and Marvin Parent, Atascadero, Calif., and four daughters, Mrs. Stella McKee, Vancouver, Wash., Mrs. Gladys Lund and Mrs. Dorah Mae Woner, Kansas City, and Mrs. Irma Becker, Boston, Mass.

Burial will be in the Myrtle Tree Cemetery near Maryville. Other arrangements are pending.
The body is at the Price Funeral Home, Maryville.

[PARENT, ROYAL WALTER]
Kansas City Times (Kansas City, Missouri), Thursday, March 18, 1971, p. 58
Royal W. Parent – Royal W. Parent, 99, Sheridan, Mo., died yesterday at Baptist Memorial hospital. He was born in Nodaway County, Missouri, where he lived most of his life. Mr. Parent was a retired farmer. He was a member of the Sheridan Christian church. Surviving are three sons, Willis Parent, Conway, Ia.; Emmitt Parent, Marshfield, Mo., and Marvin Parent, Atascadero, Calif.; four daughters, Mrs. Stella McKee, Vancouver, Wash.; Mrs. Gladys Lund, 523 Donnelly; Mrs. Dorah Mae Woner, 6705 East Ninety-eighth, and Mrs. Irma Becker, Boston; 12 grandchildren, 33 great grandchildren and six great great grandchildren. Services will be held at 10:30 o'clock Saturday at the Price chapel, Maryville, Mo.; burial in Myrtle Tree cemetery, Maryville.

[PARENT, ROYAL WALTER]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, March 22, 1971, p. 8
Final Rites Held For Royal W. Parent
Final rites were held at 10:30 a. m. Saturday at the Price Funeral Home, Maryville, for Royal W. Parent, Sheridan, who died Wednesday at a hospital in Kansas City. Burial was in the Myrtle Tree Cemetery near Maryville.

The Rev. Delbert Biehle officiated. Mrs. Biehle sang "It is Well With My Soul" and "Beyond the Sunset," accompanied by Mrs. Eldon Asbell, organist.

Pallbearers were Garland Headrick, Glenn Palmer, Cecil Lawson, Denzil Miller, Edgar Hall and Glennon Wilson.

[PENNINGTON, NETTIE ANN CORWIN]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, September 22, 1922, [p. 1]
Mrs. Charles Pennington Dies After Long Illness
Sister of C. C. Corwin of Maryville—Funeral to Be Held at 2 O'Clock Tomorrow
Mrs. Nettie Corwin Pennington of Hopkins, wife of Charles Pennington, died at her home at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, after an illness of more than two years from cancer. Mrs. Pennington was born forty-nine years ago near Burlington Junction and has lived her entire life in Nodaway county. She was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. [ndrew] J. Corwin. About twenty-five years ago she was married to Mr. Pennington and they moved to Hopkins, where they have since resided.

Mrs. Pennington was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Hopkins and was an active church worker. She was also a member of the Royal Neighbors.

Surviving are her husband; two brothers, C. [harles] C. Corwin, Maryville, and Ed Corwin, west of Hopkins; a sister, Mrs. A. M. Wright, Chicago and a daughter, Mrs. Sylvan Sager, St. Joseph.

The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Methodist Church in Hopkins and burial will be in the Hopkins cemetery.

[PFEIFFER, OLA MAY]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Wednesday, December 13, 1916, [p. 1]
Pfeiffer Funeral Tomorrow
The funeral services of Ola May Pfeiffer of Clearmont, who died yesterday at 12:30 o'clock will be held at 10 o'clock tomorrow from the Methodist church of Clearmont, Rev. W. H. Holland officiating. Burial will be at Hopkins cemetery.

[PISTOLE, HENRY THOMAS]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, June 4, 1928, p. 4
Henry Pistole, 72, Dies in St. Joseph Hospital
Pneumonia Fatal to Old Resident of Hopkins—Survived by Eight Children
Henry Pistole, 72 years old and a veteran resident of the Hopkins vicinity, died at the Missouri Methodist hospital in St. Joseph this morning shortly after 2 o'clock.
Mr. Pistole had been in fairly good health until about four weeks ago, when he was taken to the hospital for a minor operation. Two weeks later he underwent a major operation and a few days after that pneumonia developed, which was the immediate cause of his death.
He had lived near Hopkins practically all of his life. At the time of his death he had been making his home with a daughter just at the edge of Hopkins.
Mr. Pistole is survived by eight children: Olin, Ava and Glen, of Hopkins; Wallace of near Lincoln, Kan., Mrs. Ed Moellenbrandt [Moellenberndt] of Blockton, Ia., Miss Velma of Kansas City, and Miss Annice of Hopkins. He is also survived by two brothers, Charles Pistole, near Pickering and Stephen Pistole of Kansas City, Kan., and a large number of grandchildren.

Mr. Pistole was a member of the Masonic Blue Lodge at Hopkins and also was a Scottish Rite Mason. He was a member of the Christian Church at Hopkins.

The body was brought to Hopkins at noon today. Although definite funeral arrangements have not been made, it was announced that burial would be in the White Oak cemetery, northeast of Pickering.

[PISTOLE, HENRY THOMAS]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, June 5, 1928, p. 4
Funeral Tomorrow For Henry Pistole
The funeral for Henry Pistole of Hopkins, who died yesterday morning at Missouri Methodist Hospital in St. Joseph, will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Hopkins Christian Church. The service will be conducted by the Rev. B. H. Harmon. Burial will be at White Oak cemetery.

[PISTOLE, JENNY ETTA SMITH]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, June 13, 1916, [p. 1]
Mrs. Wallace Pistole Dies
Hopkins Woman, 33 Years Old, Leaves Husband and Four Children—No Funeral Arrangements
Mrs. Wallace [Wallis] Pistole, 33 years old, died at her home near Hopkins last night. She had been ill for about three weeks with uremic poisoning. Mrs. Pistole leaves a husband, Wallace [Wallis] Pistole, four children, Ruth, 8 years old, Doris, 7 years old, Raymond, 4 years old, and a baby 8 months old.

Her father, H. W. Smith, her two sisters, Mrs. Charles Coleman and Mrs. Bessie Loch, and her two brothers, Andrew and Orlie Smith, live near Pickering. Funeral arrangements have not been made.

[PRUITT, ALICE CLEAVER]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Wednesday, May 8, 1935, p. 3
Clearmont
Several from Clearmont attended the funeral of Mrs. William Pruitt in College Springs, Ia., Monday. The funeral was held at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Stanley Hansen, at 10 o'clock. The body was brought to the Clearmont cemetery for burial. Mrs. Pruitt had been very ill for some time with pneumonia. She passed away Sunday morning at one-fifteen.

[PRUITT, WILLIAM GRANT "BILL"]
Clarinda Herald Journal (Clarinda, Iowa), Thursday, November 11, 1937, p. 5
W. G. Pruitt – William G. [rant] Pruitt was born in Indiana on October 21, 1865, and passed away Saturday, Nov. 6, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Alva Kinder, near Clearmont.

He moved with his parents from Indiana to Kansas when he was 4 years old. In 1883 he moved to Blanchard, Ia., afterward moving to Elmo and then to Clearmont where he operated a hardware business for a number of years. After retiring from the hardware, he lived on a farm near Pickering. The last five years he has made his home with his children.

In 1885, Mr. Pruitt was married to Miss Alice Cleaver, whose death occurred on May 5, 1935. One son also preceded him in death.

Surviving are five children, Jacob C. [leaver] Pruitt, Claude F. [rank] Pruitt and Mrs. Kinder, all of Clearmont; Mrs. Edna Hansen, Blanchard, Ia., and Mrs. Blythe Troncin, Maryville; 24 grandchildren; six great grandchildren, and one half-sister, Mrs. Mae Lawrence, Kansas City, Kan.

The funeral was held at 2 o'clock Sunday in Maryville, Dr. D. J. Van Devander, pastor of the First Methodist church, officiating. Burial was in the Clearmont cemetery.