CORWIN, Isaac c1868-1939

CORWIN, REED, WILCOX, LILLEGRAVEN, BIERMAN, SACKETT, FOLKES

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 4/11/2013 at 17:10:03

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Monday, October 30, 1939]

HEART DISEASE FATAL TO ISAAC CORWIN, 72

CEDAR FALLS, IOWA - Isaac Corwin, 72, died Sunday at 6 p.m. in Sartori Hospital following an illness of a heart ailment. He had been confinded to the hospital for three weeks.

Mr. Corwin was born in Butler County on April 26, 1867*, son of Lucius and Rebecca Corwin. He was one of 12 children.

On December 22, 1898 he married Miss Ethel Wilcox. They spent most of their married life in this vacinity.

Surviving are the widow and five children: Floyd of this city, Mrs. Maynard Lillegraven, Mrs, Edwin Bierman, Mrs Howard Sackett, and Mrs. Claude Folkes, all of Waterloo. There are seven grandchildren. Also living are three brothers and one sister: George of New Hartford, Harry of Cedar Falls, Elwood of Pipestone, Minnesota, and Mrs. Anton Mortensen of Hudson, Iowa.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. from Brown's Funeral Home with Rev. K. A. Baker, pastor of the First Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Mr. Vernon Township Cemetery.

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*Gravestone at Greenwood Cemetery, Cedar Falls, says he was born in 1868.

His mother's maiden name was Reed.