Thomas H. Dann

DANN

Posted By: Becki Watters (email)
Date: 6/6/2010 at 19:54:08

from family scrapbook, no newspaper name

Sept 1959
Dann, Pioneer Farmer, Dies; Funeral Saturday for Folletts Man;
Low Moor—Thomas H. Dann, 93, a resident 92 years in Eden township, Clinton county, died suddenly late Wednesday afternoon in his farm house west of Folletts.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, at 2 p.m. in the Bragonier-Fay chapel in Clinton, Rev. Myron Brockmeyer, pastor of Low Moor Methodist church officiating. Burial will be in the Shafton cemetery.
Friends may call in the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.
Mr. Dann was born Sept. 29, 1866 in Elvira, son of George H. and Sarah Ann Hudson Dann. The family moved to Eden township when he was a year old. Mr. Dann was married Sept. 30, 1891 to Maria Follett in the same residence where he died and where the couple spent their entire married life. Mrs. Dunn died n July of 1943.
The deceased spent his entire life farming, retiring in 1947. He was assessor and trustee of Eden township for many years and was one of the founders and a veteran officer of the Low Moor Telephone Co. Mr. Dann was a member of the Low Moor Methodist church, Endeavor Lodge, A.F. and A.M and Low Moor Order of Eastern Star.
Surviving are a son, Lowell, and a daughter, Mrs. Florence Wilson, who have resided with their father, and a daughter, Mrs. Leslie (Edna) Brown of Clinton; one grandson; 2 brothers, Sam A. of Clinton and Walter W. of Manteco, Calif., and nieces and nephews. Besides his wife, he was preceded in death by a daughter, 6 brothers and 2 sisters.

Sept. 30, 1959
From funeral card
In Memoriam; Thomas H. Dann; Born September 29, 1866 Elivira, Iowa; Passed away, September 30, 1959, Folletts, Clinton Co., Iowa
Services: Bragonier-Fay Funeral Home, Clinton, Iowa
Officiating clergyman: Rev. Myron Brockmeyer, Low Moor Methodist Church
At the Organ: Mrs. Phoebe Waterbury
Casket Bearers: Arthur Carlson, R.J. Hansen, Earl Hofer, Arthur Peterson, Carl Schroeder, Louis Schult
At Rest: Shafton Cemetery, Clinton Co., Iowa