Meda Harrison Marquis Trumbo (1894 - 1969)

MARQUIS, TRUMBO, HARRISON, MILLER, WAUGH

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The Osceola Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa
January 30, 1969, Page 5

OBITUARIES

Meda H. Marquis Trumbo

Meda H. Marquis Trumbo, daughter of Calvin and Ida Harrison Marquis was born May 21, 1894 at Woodburn, Clarke county, Iowa and passed away a the Clarke County Hospital in Osceola on January 19, 1969 at the age of 74 years, 7 months and 29 days.

She was educated in Clarke county rural schools and graduated from High School at the Chariton Academy. Following graduation from high school she attended Iowa State University at Ames. Following her college work she taught school in the rural schools of Clarke county until her marriage to Frank Trumbo on October 5, 1918.

Following their marriage they homesteaded a farm at Keot, Colorado. In 1921 they moved to a farm at Holdridge, Nebraska and five years later they purchased a farm at Liberty, Iowa where they resided until the death of Mr. Trumbo on December 1961. In 1962 she moved to Des Moines where she lived until last year when she took an apartment at New Virginia Manor in New Virginia, Iowa. Her death resulted from the effects of a fall at her home Saturday morning.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Frank, a son, Thomas who died in the service of his country during W.W. II and a brother who died in infancy.

She is survived by two daughters, Jean, Mrs. Francis Miller of New Virginia and Ruth of Des Moines, two brothers, Freeman Marquis of LaCrensenta, California and Emery Marquis of Glendale, California; one sister, Nellie, Mrs. Roy Waugh of Chariton and two grandsons, Edward and Ted Miller of New Virginia.

She was a member of the Des Moines Chapter of the Gold Star Mothers, the D.A.R. and the Women's Society of Christian Service.

She became a member of the United Methodist Church of Liberty in 1947 and was one of the most diligent workers in that church as long as health permitted. One of her major interests was the church school and she gave many years of service both as the superintendent and as a church school worker.

Her quiet and gentle spirit will be greatly missed by family and friends alike.

Funeral service were held at Webster Funeral Home Tuesday, January 21, 1969 at 2 p.m. with Rev. Lester Moore officiating. Interment was in the Liberty Cemetery.
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