J. H. Thorn, a resident of Marshalltown for forty-two years, died at 10:20 o'clock today at the home of his son, Walter Thorn, 517 Bromley street. He had been in failing health for three years and had been confined to his bed since the first of the year. Death was due to a complication of diseases.
Mr. Thorn was born on Iowa. July 20, 1859. He had been in the plumbing in this city for the last thirty years. He was married three times. By the first marriage he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Linnie Barker, Independence and Mrs. Edith Dessher, New Providence. Four sons were born to the second union. They are Walter, city, Sylvan, Christopher, Ill., Ralph, Fort Dodge, and Francis, whose address is unknown. The third wife and three children. Dorothy, Floyd, and Robert of Union and a brother Lem Thorn Eagle Grove, also survive. Mr. Thorn was a member of the Woodmen of the World.
Funeral services will be held at Pursel Funeral Home and burial will be in the cemetery at Union, but the time for the rites have not yet been fixed today.
Publication Unknown---clipping from the scrapbook of Mary C. Bentley Reeser (sister of his first wife Elizabeth Bentley and second wife Rosetta Bentley)
J. H. Thorn, a resident of Marshalltown for forty-two years, died at 10:20 o'clock today at the home of his son, Walter Thorn, 517 Bromley street. He had been in failing health for three years and had been confined to his bed since the first of the year. Death was due to a complication of diseases.
Mr. Thorn was born on Iowa. July 20, 1859. He had been in the plumbing in this city for the last thirty years. He was married three times. By the first marriage he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Linnie Barker, Independence and Mrs. Edith Dessher, New Providence. Four sons were born to the second union. They are Walter, city, Sylvan, Christopher, Ill., Ralph, Fort Dodge, and Francis, whose address is unknown. The third wife and three children. Dorothy, Floyd, and Robert of Union and a brother Lem Thorn Eagle Grove, also survive. Mr. Thorn was a member of the Woodmen of the World.
Funeral services will be held at Pursel Funeral Home and burial will be in the cemetery at Union, but the time for the rites have not yet been fixed today.
Publication Unknown---clipping from the scrapbook of Mary C. Bentley Reeser (sister of his first wife Elizabeth Bentley and second wife Rosetta Bentley)
Family Members
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Carl Webster Thorn
1884–1921
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Linnie L. Thorn Barker
1884–1973
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Walter W. Thorn
1892–1973
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Melvin Alvenis Thorn
1894–1928
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Sylvan E. Thorn
1897–1976
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Ralph Henry Thorn
1899–1984
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Ellis George Thorn
1901–1909
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Francis B. Thorn
1904–1972
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Corey Thorn
1906–1907
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Dorothy Elizabeth Thorn Adcock
1923–2008
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Floyd Leroy Thorn
1925–1996
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Robert Thorn
1929–1937
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