HUBBARD, Grace Dean (JONES)

DONALDSON, JONES, HUBBARD, PITMAN, KNUDSEN, FROST, HYATT, HANSEN

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 4/25/2015 at 12:30:39

Obituary ~ Grace Dean (Jones) Hubbard
August 05, 1897 ~ November 19, 1978

Leon Journal-Reporter
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa

GRACE DEAN HUBBARD daughter of ERNEST and LYDA DONALDSON JONES, was born Aug. 5, 1897 near Lamoni, Iowa, and died Nov. 19, 1978 in Leon, Iowa age 81 years, 3 months and 14 days.

On Aug. 6, 1921, she was united in marriage to JAMES CLARENCE HUBBARD. She always lived in Decatur County, where they farmed, and later retired in Leon.

She was a member of the Leon Brethren Church.

She was preceded in death by parents; husband, CLARENCE; two sons, JAMES ERNEST and ROBERT DEAN, both died in infancy; and two brothers, JOHN and GEORGE JONES.

Survivors are two daughters, MYRNA PITMAN and husband JIM, Jefferson, Iowa; and JANE KNUDSEN and husband JACK, Nashua, Iowa; five granddaughters BECKY, JOYCE and SUSAN PITMAN, BETSY and JENIFER KNUDSEN; three sisters, RUBY FROST and MARY HYATT, Leon, and NEIL HANSEN, Winterset , Iowa; two brothers, BOB JONES, Lamoni, Iowa, and DICK JONES, Des Moines, Iowa.

[Interment was made at Leon Cemetery.]

Transcription by Sara Rose Joan LeFleur