COUNTY"S OLDEST RESIDENT DIES
ELWOOD FRANKLIN KING 101 YEARS OLD
Funeral services for Elwood Franklin King, 101, retired farmer and a Montgomery County resident for 80 years, will be held Saturday, December 28, at 2 p.m. at the Nelson Chapel here. He died Sunday, December 22, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Herman J. Heuer, Route 1, Red Oak, where ha had made his home since 1959.
He was Montgomery County's oldest resident.
The Rev. William Fry will officiate at the services and burial will be in the Emerson Cemetery.
The son of Wesley and Sarah Jane Oldham King, he was born May 14, 1862 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and at the age of 2 moved with his parents to Monmouth, Illinois. Five years later, in 1869, the family moved to a West Township farm in this county and he had been a resident of this county since that except for the period 1919-1933, when he lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
He was married December 19, 1888 to Jennie Mae Culver, who died in 1935. After the death of his wife, he bought the general store at McPerson and lived there for 10 years with the Heuers.
He was a member of the Hawthorne Methodist Church and the Modern Woodmen of the World.
Surviving are six daughters, Mrs. Heuer, Mrs. Lester Cozad of Red Oak, Mrs. A. J. Lindsey of Villisca, Mrs. I. B. Schaede of Coronada, California, Mrs. Bernice Hakes of Seattle, Washington, and Mrs. Madison Hall of Arlington, Virginia; 11 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren.
Memorial are acceptable to the Hawthorne Methodist Church and the fire department rescue unit.
Red Oak Express, Red Oak, Iowa, Monday, December 22nd, 1963. page 1
Ellwood Franklin King was born May 15, 1862 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to Wesley B. King and Sarah Jane Oldham. He married Jennie Mae Culver on December 19, 1888 in Iowa. He died December 22, 1963 in Montgomery County, Iowa, Rural Route, #1 of cardio vascular, senility, old age. He was partially blind and deaf. Oscar Alden, M.D., burial December 28, 1963 in Emerson Cemetery, Theodore Nelson, undertaker.
Montgomery County Court House, Red Oak, Iowa, death records, book 1949-1968, page 332
ELWOOD FRANKLIN KING 101 YEARS OLD
Funeral services for Elwood Franklin King, 101, retired farmer and a Montgomery County resident for 80 years, will be held Saturday, December 28, at 2 p.m. at the Nelson Chapel here. He died Sunday, December 22, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Herman J. Heuer, Route 1, Red Oak, where ha had made his home since 1959.
He was Montgomery County's oldest resident.
The Rev. William Fry will officiate at the services and burial will be in the Emerson Cemetery.
The son of Wesley and Sarah Jane Oldham King, he was born May 14, 1862 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and at the age of 2 moved with his parents to Monmouth, Illinois. Five years later, in 1869, the family moved to a West Township farm in this county and he had been a resident of this county since that except for the period 1919-1933, when he lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
He was married December 19, 1888 to Jennie Mae Culver, who died in 1935. After the death of his wife, he bought the general store at McPerson and lived there for 10 years with the Heuers.
He was a member of the Hawthorne Methodist Church and the Modern Woodmen of the World.
Surviving are six daughters, Mrs. Heuer, Mrs. Lester Cozad of Red Oak, Mrs. A. J. Lindsey of Villisca, Mrs. I. B. Schaede of Coronada, California, Mrs. Bernice Hakes of Seattle, Washington, and Mrs. Madison Hall of Arlington, Virginia; 11 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren.
Memorial are acceptable to the Hawthorne Methodist Church and the fire department rescue unit.
Red Oak Express, Red Oak, Iowa, Monday, December 22nd, 1963. page 1
Ellwood Franklin King was born May 15, 1862 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to Wesley B. King and Sarah Jane Oldham. He married Jennie Mae Culver on December 19, 1888 in Iowa. He died December 22, 1963 in Montgomery County, Iowa, Rural Route, #1 of cardio vascular, senility, old age. He was partially blind and deaf. Oscar Alden, M.D., burial December 28, 1963 in Emerson Cemetery, Theodore Nelson, undertaker.
Montgomery County Court House, Red Oak, Iowa, death records, book 1949-1968, page 332
COUNTY"S OLDEST RESIDENT DIES
ELWOOD FRANKLIN KING 101 YEARS OLD
Funeral services for Elwood Franklin King, 101, retired farmer and a Montgomery County resident for 80 years, will be held Saturday, December 28, at 2 p.m. at the Nelson Chapel here. He died Sunday, December 22, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Herman J. Heuer, Route 1, Red Oak, where ha had made his home since 1959.
He was Montgomery County's oldest resident.
The Rev. William Fry will officiate at the services and burial will be in the Emerson Cemetery.
The son of Wesley and Sarah Jane Oldham King, he was born May 14, 1862 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and at the age of 2 moved with his parents to Monmouth, Illinois. Five years later, in 1869, the family moved to a West Township farm in this county and he had been a resident of this county since that except for the period 1919-1933, when he lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
He was married December 19, 1888 to Jennie Mae Culver, who died in 1935. After the death of his wife, he bought the general store at McPerson and lived there for 10 years with the Heuers.
He was a member of the Hawthorne Methodist Church and the Modern Woodmen of the World.
Surviving are six daughters, Mrs. Heuer, Mrs. Lester Cozad of Red Oak, Mrs. A. J. Lindsey of Villisca, Mrs. I. B. Schaede of Coronada, California, Mrs. Bernice Hakes of Seattle, Washington, and Mrs. Madison Hall of Arlington, Virginia; 11 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren.
Memorial are acceptable to the Hawthorne Methodist Church and the fire department rescue unit.
Red Oak Express, Red Oak, Iowa, Monday, December 22nd, 1963. page 1
Ellwood Franklin King was born May 15, 1862 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to Wesley B. King and Sarah Jane Oldham. He married Jennie Mae Culver on December 19, 1888 in Iowa. He died December 22, 1963 in Montgomery County, Iowa, Rural Route, #1 of cardio vascular, senility, old age. He was partially blind and deaf. Oscar Alden, M.D., burial December 28, 1963 in Emerson Cemetery, Theodore Nelson, undertaker.
Montgomery County Court House, Red Oak, Iowa, death records, book 1949-1968, page 332
ELWOOD FRANKLIN KING 101 YEARS OLD
Funeral services for Elwood Franklin King, 101, retired farmer and a Montgomery County resident for 80 years, will be held Saturday, December 28, at 2 p.m. at the Nelson Chapel here. He died Sunday, December 22, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Herman J. Heuer, Route 1, Red Oak, where ha had made his home since 1959.
He was Montgomery County's oldest resident.
The Rev. William Fry will officiate at the services and burial will be in the Emerson Cemetery.
The son of Wesley and Sarah Jane Oldham King, he was born May 14, 1862 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and at the age of 2 moved with his parents to Monmouth, Illinois. Five years later, in 1869, the family moved to a West Township farm in this county and he had been a resident of this county since that except for the period 1919-1933, when he lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
He was married December 19, 1888 to Jennie Mae Culver, who died in 1935. After the death of his wife, he bought the general store at McPerson and lived there for 10 years with the Heuers.
He was a member of the Hawthorne Methodist Church and the Modern Woodmen of the World.
Surviving are six daughters, Mrs. Heuer, Mrs. Lester Cozad of Red Oak, Mrs. A. J. Lindsey of Villisca, Mrs. I. B. Schaede of Coronada, California, Mrs. Bernice Hakes of Seattle, Washington, and Mrs. Madison Hall of Arlington, Virginia; 11 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren.
Memorial are acceptable to the Hawthorne Methodist Church and the fire department rescue unit.
Red Oak Express, Red Oak, Iowa, Monday, December 22nd, 1963. page 1
Ellwood Franklin King was born May 15, 1862 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to Wesley B. King and Sarah Jane Oldham. He married Jennie Mae Culver on December 19, 1888 in Iowa. He died December 22, 1963 in Montgomery County, Iowa, Rural Route, #1 of cardio vascular, senility, old age. He was partially blind and deaf. Oscar Alden, M.D., burial December 28, 1963 in Emerson Cemetery, Theodore Nelson, undertaker.
Montgomery County Court House, Red Oak, Iowa, death records, book 1949-1968, page 332
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