Mrs. Mary Vanscoy Dies Near Newton
NEWTON, IA. - Services for Mrs. Mary Catherine Vanscoy, 96, will be Sunday at 2 p. m. at Murdoch's funeral home here. Mrs. Vanscoy died late Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wildman Woods, near Newton. She had lived in the Murphy community 88 years since coming with her parents from Indiana in a covered wagon.
She was the grandmother of Lieut. Com. Harold B. Miller of the United States navy bureau of aeronautics, who formerly served with air units of the dirigibles, Akron and Macon, and during the last year was awarded a trophy by President Roosevelt for records made by his navy aerial patrol squadron in the Panama canal zone. Miller formerly made his home with his grandmother.
Published in the Des Moines Tribune (Des Moines, Iowa) - Friday, November 13, 1942.
NEWTON, IA. - Services for Mrs. Mary Catherine Vanscoy, 96, will be Sunday at 2 p. m. at Murdoch's funeral home here. Mrs. Vanscoy died late Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wildman Woods, near Newton. She had lived in the Murphy community 88 years since coming with her parents from Indiana in a covered wagon.
She was the grandmother of Lieut. Com. Harold B. Miller of the United States navy bureau of aeronautics, who formerly served with air units of the dirigibles, Akron and Macon, and during the last year was awarded a trophy by President Roosevelt for records made by his navy aerial patrol squadron in the Panama canal zone. Miller formerly made his home with his grandmother.
Published in the Des Moines Tribune (Des Moines, Iowa) - Friday, November 13, 1942.
Mrs. Mary Vanscoy Dies Near Newton
NEWTON, IA. - Services for Mrs. Mary Catherine Vanscoy, 96, will be Sunday at 2 p. m. at Murdoch's funeral home here. Mrs. Vanscoy died late Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wildman Woods, near Newton. She had lived in the Murphy community 88 years since coming with her parents from Indiana in a covered wagon.
She was the grandmother of Lieut. Com. Harold B. Miller of the United States navy bureau of aeronautics, who formerly served with air units of the dirigibles, Akron and Macon, and during the last year was awarded a trophy by President Roosevelt for records made by his navy aerial patrol squadron in the Panama canal zone. Miller formerly made his home with his grandmother.
Published in the Des Moines Tribune (Des Moines, Iowa) - Friday, November 13, 1942.
NEWTON, IA. - Services for Mrs. Mary Catherine Vanscoy, 96, will be Sunday at 2 p. m. at Murdoch's funeral home here. Mrs. Vanscoy died late Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wildman Woods, near Newton. She had lived in the Murphy community 88 years since coming with her parents from Indiana in a covered wagon.
She was the grandmother of Lieut. Com. Harold B. Miller of the United States navy bureau of aeronautics, who formerly served with air units of the dirigibles, Akron and Macon, and during the last year was awarded a trophy by President Roosevelt for records made by his navy aerial patrol squadron in the Panama canal zone. Miller formerly made his home with his grandmother.
Published in the Des Moines Tribune (Des Moines, Iowa) - Friday, November 13, 1942.
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