RALSTON, Curtis Arthur 1933-1939

RALSTON, EVANS

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Date: 8/15/2020 at 12:27:16

Waukon, Ia. - Funeral services for Curtis Ralston, six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ralston, were held Sunday afternoon at the Presbyterian Church at Rossville with the Rev. R.L. Van Nice officiating. Burial was in the Smithfield Cemetery.

The child died Friday evening at a LaCrosse hospital following an emergency appendectomy.

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Added by Cindy (Maust) Smith on 8/15/2020:

Cedar Rapids Gazette, Monday, August 14, 1939, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Page 3

Curtis Ralston, 6 1/2 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl (Phoena Evans) Ralston died Friday of peritonitis following a ruptured appendix operation. Besides the parents there are eight children who survive.

DOB: January 19, 1933
DOD: August 11, 1939

He was born on a farm in Jefferson Township, Allamakee County, on Jan. 19, 1933.

Surviving are his parents, five sisters: Helen, Beulah, Marjorie, Roberta and Lucille; three brothers: Gerald, Dale and infant brother, all at home; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George Ralston and Mrs. Abe Evans, all of Waukon.

~Telegraph-Herald, Dubuque, Iowa, August 14, 1939