Jan 25, 1951
John Monroe
Geneseo - John Monroe, 59, Geneseo community farmer, died Tuesday in the sanatarium at Norton where he had been a patient a year.
Survivors include the widow, May; four daughters, Mrs. Eugene Hicks, Hutchinson, Mrs. Ernest Cormeny, Bloomfield, Ia., Mrs. H.J. Cormeny, Blakesburg, Ia., and Mrs. Walter Droegmeier (sic), Geneseo; five son (sic), John jr., with the army in Korea, Raymond, Geneseo, Bruce, Orville and Francis, all of the home; three brothers.
Funeral service will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday in the Methodist church here. Rev. Henry Dorsey officiating. Burial will be in the Geneseo cemetery.
(NOTE: The hospital in Norton was a tuberculosis sanitorium. The family story is that he didn't have tuberculosis, but actually Black Lung from his years in the Iowa coal mines.)
Jan 25, 1951
John Monroe
Geneseo - John Monroe, 59, Geneseo community farmer, died Tuesday in the sanatarium at Norton where he had been a patient a year.
Survivors include the widow, May; four daughters, Mrs. Eugene Hicks, Hutchinson, Mrs. Ernest Cormeny, Bloomfield, Ia., Mrs. H.J. Cormeny, Blakesburg, Ia., and Mrs. Walter Droegmeier (sic), Geneseo; five son (sic), John jr., with the army in Korea, Raymond, Geneseo, Bruce, Orville and Francis, all of the home; three brothers.
Funeral service will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday in the Methodist church here. Rev. Henry Dorsey officiating. Burial will be in the Geneseo cemetery.
(NOTE: The hospital in Norton was a tuberculosis sanitorium. The family story is that he didn't have tuberculosis, but actually Black Lung from his years in the Iowa coal mines.)
Gravesite Details
Son of Curtis McClenan & Elizabeth Crockett/Johnson
Family Members
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Marguerite Ellen Monroe Cormeny
1912–1975
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Velma Opal Monroe
1913–1920
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Mildred Gwendolyn Monroe
1916–1920
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Gilbert Eugene Monroe
1918–1920
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Mary E. Monroe Cormeny
1920–2006
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William Curtis Monroe
1922–1922
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John Philip Monroe Jr
1924–2004
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Raymond Edward Monroe
1925–2006
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Deloris Irene Monroe Droegemeier
1927–2000
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Bruce C Monroe
1929–2017
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Orville Lewis Monroe
1934–2022
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Francis L Monroe
1935–2016
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