Mrs. Mary E. Rown

ROWN, CECIL, AGEE, BLIZZARD, COLLIER, KONHORST, GRAVITT, CRUNKSHANK, RALPH

Posted By: Deb Barker (email)
Date: 8/3/2013 at 23:12:14

Ottumwa Courier September 14, 1936
Mrs. Mary E. Rown.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Rown, 75, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Roy Blizzard, 443 Pocahontas St., Sunday at 12:55 PM. She was the daughter of John and Rebecca Cecil and was born in Davis County June 18, 1861. She had lived in Ottumwa for the last 27 years and was a member of the Davis Street Christian church. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. A. B. Agee and Mrs. Blizzard of Ottumwa, Mrs. Ed Collier of Council Bluffs and Mrs. Catherine Konhorst of Denver; one son George W. of Dunlap, Illinois; two sisters, Miss Lou Cecil and Mrs. Nora Gravitt of Henderson; one brother, Jack Cecil of Bloomfield; one
half- sister, Mrs. Georgia Crunkshank of Ottumwa; one half brother, John Cecil of Effingham, 23 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband Chester and four children. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2:30 PM in Johnson's funeral Chapel, conducted by the Rev. C. A.
Albin and the Rev. Roy C. Leeds. Burial be made in the Shaul cemetery. The body will be held at the home this evening. Pallbearers will be Orville Ralph and Emmett Agee, Elmer and James Blizzard, and Carl Cecil, all grandsons.