Carson Cobb 1900-1965

COBB, NEWELL, INGRAM, MACDONALD

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 10/31/2020 at 08:11:24

8 April 1965 - The Tipton Conservative

Funeral services for Carson H. Cobb, 64, were held at the Dye funeral home Tuesday, April 6, with the Rev. Eugene Miller officiating.

Pallbearers were Charles Bolton, Clarence Kuhn, R. R. Werling, Channing Hall, Henry Walters and William Schneekloth. Mrs. Irma Crawford was organist. Burial was in the Masonic cemetery.

Mr. Cobb died about 9:30 a.m. Sunday at his home in Tipton.

He told his wife that he was going to take some trash to the city dump and left the house about 9 a.m., going to the garage. When Mrs. Cobb found that he had not returned to the house about 10 a.m. she investigated and found his body in the front seat of the car, which was parked in the garage.

According to Sheriff Dick Barden, Mr. Cobb had wired a piece of garden hose to the exhaust of the car and run it into a side window of the car, packing the hose in place with a blanket. Death is believed to have taken place about 9:30 a.m.

The son of Forrest B. and Alice Hecht Cobb, he was born in Tipton April 8, 1900 and was a member of a pioneer Cedar county family. He graduated from Tipton high school and Coe College and attended officer training school at Coe during World War I.

He taught school for several years, including 11 years as superintendent of schools at Russell and was coach at Center Point. He returned to Tipton in 1939 when he became associated with his father in the Tipton Brick and Tile company. He retired from business last year.

He was married to Marjorie Newell at her family home in Cedar Rapids Feb. 14, 1924.

Mr. Cobb served 2 terms on the Tipton city council, from 1946 until 1950.

He was a member of the Methodist church in Tipton and the Tipton Masonic lodge. He served for many years on the cemetery board in charge of the Masonic cemetery.

He is survived by his wife, a son, Forest Newell, Cedar Rapids; a daughter, Mrs. F. C. (Sally) Ingram, Storm Lake; 2 brothers, William H., St. Petersburg, Fla. and Carl C., Western Springs, Ill; a sister, Mrs. E. R. (Florence) MacDonald, Davenport, and 7 grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents.