Traer Star Clipper, Friday, December 12, 1969 – page 9
Mrs. Jean Farnham, 89, a highly regarded Traer resident most of her life, died Tuesday morning, December 9, 1969 in the Friendship Manor nursing home in Grinnell. She had lived in Grinnell only the last few years since her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Sears, formerly of Geneseo, had made their home in Grinnell. Her body was returned to Traer Tuesday to the Erickson Funeral Home where her funeral services are to be held at 1:30 p.m. this Friday and interment will be in Budkingham cemetery beside her husband, Dr, Alford J. Farnham who practiced medicine 44 years, most of that time in Traer.
Mrs. Farnham, a daughter of early day North Tama and Traer residents, William and Margaret Wilson Brown, was born near Lincoln, Iowa on December 15, 1889. She was reared in that community and was graduated from Traer high school. She was also a student and a graduate of Monmouth college, Monmouth, Illinois. And after graduation from college, she was a teacher of foreign languages at Washington, Iowa high school and the high school at Sedro Woolley, Washington. She was united in marriage to Dr. Alford J. Farnham, son of A. J. and Mary Gailey Farnham on April 29, 1914.
Dr. Farnham, her husband, was born in New York state and was five years old when he came with his parents to a farm southwest of Traer, where he was reared and was graduated from Traer high school. He was graduated in medicine at the University of Illinois at Champaign, Illinois after two years previous at the University of Iowa college of medicine. He also had post-graduate study at the New York City medical college. He began medical practice in Reinbeck, but moved to Traer in 1915, after his marriage. He built the Farnham hospital here, which was used by other Traer physicians as well as his own patients, and continued to operate it as a hospital until ill health and a serious X-ray burn made it necessary to quit surgery. He sold the hospital building on Highway 63 to Charles Vanicek who converted it into an apartment house, and Dr. Farnham had an office at his home in his last years. Dr. Farnham's former hospital also served several years as the office and home of the late Dr. P. I. Eyres, dentist. Dr. Farnham died at the age of 69 in December, 1947, after 10 years of ill health of Parkinson's disease.
Dr. and Mrs. Farnham were the parents of three children, a son Gailey, a research chemist many years, now employed by Union Carbide company in New Jersey; the daughter, Margaret who is the wife of Donald Sears of Grinnell, and a son, William Brown Farnham, who died in infancy. She is survived by 10 grandchildren and one great grandchild. She also had two brothers and three sisters who preceded her in death; John and Henry Brown, Mrs. Henderson Sloane and Mrs. Clarence (Frances) Read, who died in Traer only a year or two ago; and an infant sister, Jessie Brown. Mrs. Farnham was a long time member of the Traer United Presbyterian church and was a member more than 50 years of the Traer P. E. O. chapter.
Mrs. Jean Farnham, 89, a highly regarded Traer resident most of her life, died Tuesday morning, December 9, 1969 in the Friendship Manor nursing home in Grinnell. She had lived in Grinnell only the last few years since her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Sears, formerly of Geneseo, had made their home in Grinnell. Her body was returned to Traer Tuesday to the Erickson Funeral Home where her funeral services are to be held at 1:30 p.m. this Friday and interment will be in Budkingham cemetery beside her husband, Dr, Alford J. Farnham who practiced medicine 44 years, most of that time in Traer.
Mrs. Farnham, a daughter of early day North Tama and Traer residents, William and Margaret Wilson Brown, was born near Lincoln, Iowa on December 15, 1889. She was reared in that community and was graduated from Traer high school. She was also a student and a graduate of Monmouth college, Monmouth, Illinois. And after graduation from college, she was a teacher of foreign languages at Washington, Iowa high school and the high school at Sedro Woolley, Washington. She was united in marriage to Dr. Alford J. Farnham, son of A. J. and Mary Gailey Farnham on April 29, 1914.
Dr. Farnham, her husband, was born in New York state and was five years old when he came with his parents to a farm southwest of Traer, where he was reared and was graduated from Traer high school. He was graduated in medicine at the University of Illinois at Champaign, Illinois after two years previous at the University of Iowa college of medicine. He also had post-graduate study at the New York City medical college. He began medical practice in Reinbeck, but moved to Traer in 1915, after his marriage. He built the Farnham hospital here, which was used by other Traer physicians as well as his own patients, and continued to operate it as a hospital until ill health and a serious X-ray burn made it necessary to quit surgery. He sold the hospital building on Highway 63 to Charles Vanicek who converted it into an apartment house, and Dr. Farnham had an office at his home in his last years. Dr. Farnham's former hospital also served several years as the office and home of the late Dr. P. I. Eyres, dentist. Dr. Farnham died at the age of 69 in December, 1947, after 10 years of ill health of Parkinson's disease.
Dr. and Mrs. Farnham were the parents of three children, a son Gailey, a research chemist many years, now employed by Union Carbide company in New Jersey; the daughter, Margaret who is the wife of Donald Sears of Grinnell, and a son, William Brown Farnham, who died in infancy. She is survived by 10 grandchildren and one great grandchild. She also had two brothers and three sisters who preceded her in death; John and Henry Brown, Mrs. Henderson Sloane and Mrs. Clarence (Frances) Read, who died in Traer only a year or two ago; and an infant sister, Jessie Brown. Mrs. Farnham was a long time member of the Traer United Presbyterian church and was a member more than 50 years of the Traer P. E. O. chapter.
Traer Star Clipper, Friday, December 12, 1969 – page 9
Mrs. Jean Farnham, 89, a highly regarded Traer resident most of her life, died Tuesday morning, December 9, 1969 in the Friendship Manor nursing home in Grinnell. She had lived in Grinnell only the last few years since her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Sears, formerly of Geneseo, had made their home in Grinnell. Her body was returned to Traer Tuesday to the Erickson Funeral Home where her funeral services are to be held at 1:30 p.m. this Friday and interment will be in Budkingham cemetery beside her husband, Dr, Alford J. Farnham who practiced medicine 44 years, most of that time in Traer.
Mrs. Farnham, a daughter of early day North Tama and Traer residents, William and Margaret Wilson Brown, was born near Lincoln, Iowa on December 15, 1889. She was reared in that community and was graduated from Traer high school. She was also a student and a graduate of Monmouth college, Monmouth, Illinois. And after graduation from college, she was a teacher of foreign languages at Washington, Iowa high school and the high school at Sedro Woolley, Washington. She was united in marriage to Dr. Alford J. Farnham, son of A. J. and Mary Gailey Farnham on April 29, 1914.
Dr. Farnham, her husband, was born in New York state and was five years old when he came with his parents to a farm southwest of Traer, where he was reared and was graduated from Traer high school. He was graduated in medicine at the University of Illinois at Champaign, Illinois after two years previous at the University of Iowa college of medicine. He also had post-graduate study at the New York City medical college. He began medical practice in Reinbeck, but moved to Traer in 1915, after his marriage. He built the Farnham hospital here, which was used by other Traer physicians as well as his own patients, and continued to operate it as a hospital until ill health and a serious X-ray burn made it necessary to quit surgery. He sold the hospital building on Highway 63 to Charles Vanicek who converted it into an apartment house, and Dr. Farnham had an office at his home in his last years. Dr. Farnham's former hospital also served several years as the office and home of the late Dr. P. I. Eyres, dentist. Dr. Farnham died at the age of 69 in December, 1947, after 10 years of ill health of Parkinson's disease.
Dr. and Mrs. Farnham were the parents of three children, a son Gailey, a research chemist many years, now employed by Union Carbide company in New Jersey; the daughter, Margaret who is the wife of Donald Sears of Grinnell, and a son, William Brown Farnham, who died in infancy. She is survived by 10 grandchildren and one great grandchild. She also had two brothers and three sisters who preceded her in death; John and Henry Brown, Mrs. Henderson Sloane and Mrs. Clarence (Frances) Read, who died in Traer only a year or two ago; and an infant sister, Jessie Brown. Mrs. Farnham was a long time member of the Traer United Presbyterian church and was a member more than 50 years of the Traer P. E. O. chapter.
Mrs. Jean Farnham, 89, a highly regarded Traer resident most of her life, died Tuesday morning, December 9, 1969 in the Friendship Manor nursing home in Grinnell. She had lived in Grinnell only the last few years since her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Sears, formerly of Geneseo, had made their home in Grinnell. Her body was returned to Traer Tuesday to the Erickson Funeral Home where her funeral services are to be held at 1:30 p.m. this Friday and interment will be in Budkingham cemetery beside her husband, Dr, Alford J. Farnham who practiced medicine 44 years, most of that time in Traer.
Mrs. Farnham, a daughter of early day North Tama and Traer residents, William and Margaret Wilson Brown, was born near Lincoln, Iowa on December 15, 1889. She was reared in that community and was graduated from Traer high school. She was also a student and a graduate of Monmouth college, Monmouth, Illinois. And after graduation from college, she was a teacher of foreign languages at Washington, Iowa high school and the high school at Sedro Woolley, Washington. She was united in marriage to Dr. Alford J. Farnham, son of A. J. and Mary Gailey Farnham on April 29, 1914.
Dr. Farnham, her husband, was born in New York state and was five years old when he came with his parents to a farm southwest of Traer, where he was reared and was graduated from Traer high school. He was graduated in medicine at the University of Illinois at Champaign, Illinois after two years previous at the University of Iowa college of medicine. He also had post-graduate study at the New York City medical college. He began medical practice in Reinbeck, but moved to Traer in 1915, after his marriage. He built the Farnham hospital here, which was used by other Traer physicians as well as his own patients, and continued to operate it as a hospital until ill health and a serious X-ray burn made it necessary to quit surgery. He sold the hospital building on Highway 63 to Charles Vanicek who converted it into an apartment house, and Dr. Farnham had an office at his home in his last years. Dr. Farnham's former hospital also served several years as the office and home of the late Dr. P. I. Eyres, dentist. Dr. Farnham died at the age of 69 in December, 1947, after 10 years of ill health of Parkinson's disease.
Dr. and Mrs. Farnham were the parents of three children, a son Gailey, a research chemist many years, now employed by Union Carbide company in New Jersey; the daughter, Margaret who is the wife of Donald Sears of Grinnell, and a son, William Brown Farnham, who died in infancy. She is survived by 10 grandchildren and one great grandchild. She also had two brothers and three sisters who preceded her in death; John and Henry Brown, Mrs. Henderson Sloane and Mrs. Clarence (Frances) Read, who died in Traer only a year or two ago; and an infant sister, Jessie Brown. Mrs. Farnham was a long time member of the Traer United Presbyterian church and was a member more than 50 years of the Traer P. E. O. chapter.
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