Mrs. HARVEY (Ida Nesteby) JONES 1897-1987

DOCKEN, NESTEBY, JONES, MUELLER, CARROLL, OLSON, EMVERTSON, BAKER

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 1/13/2005 at 17:15:21

Ida Jones

Funeral services for Ida Nesteby Jones were held Sunday, May 17, 1987 at St. John's Lutheran Church, Farmersburg. The Rev. Robert Edwards officiated. Burial was in U. B. Cemetery, rural St. Olaf. Schultz's Funeral Home, Monona was in charge of arrangements.

Ida Jones was born May 19, 1897, in Echo, Minnesota to Nels and Ingrid Docken Nesteby. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith. She received her education in Montevido, Minnesota.

She married Harvey Jones June 19, 1914. They had one son, and one daughter. The couple lived in Postville until 1937. They moved to Waukon and lived there until 1975.

Ida remained in her home until moving to the Good Samaritan Center in Waukon in 1985. She died at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon.

Preceding her in death was her husband, Harvey, who died January 12, 1981; four brothers, Alfred, Ted, Albert and Carl and two sisters, Mabel and Alma.

Surviving is one son, Harley and one daughter, Maxine Mueller, both of Farmersburg; three grandchildren, Karen, Ronald and Warren; and five great-grandchildren, Tony, Andy and Jody Mueller and Kristin and Jeffrey Carroll; one brother, Elmer, Lucan, Minnesota; three sisters, Emma Olson, Oregon, Mayme Emvertson, Billings, Montana and Inga Baker, Waterloo and many nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers were the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Ida Jones.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping from my mother's obituary collection.

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