MANTA MITTEN

MITTEN, MILLER, STANLEY, JENREE

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 5/4/2002 at 21:39:32

Decatur County Journal
Thursday, May l3, l920

MISS MANTA, daughter of URIAH and MARY MITTEN, was born near Ft. Wayne, Ind., June l4, l854, and departed this life at the Leon Hospital Thursday evening, April 29th, l920, aged 65 years, l0 months and l5 days. She came with her parents from Indiana to Decatur County, Ia., in the year l869, and settled on a farm four miles west of Leon, Iowa. Here she made her home for a number of years. She came to Leon in l880, where she continued to reside until called by death to her Heavenly home.

She united with the Church of Christ at Leon, twenty-five years ago this August. She was converted during a revival conducted by John P. Jesse. She was an earnest Christian and as long as health permitted, a regular attendant upon the services of the church. She was honored and respected by all who knew her. She was a member of the Ladies Social Club of Leon, and for a number of years, President of the Club. She was an excellent business woman, looking carefully after all business interests entrusted to her.

She was a dutiful and affectionate daughter, a loving thoughtful sister, a kind neighbor and a true friend. For a number of years she had been a constant sufferer and on last Tuesday, April 27, underwent an operation at the hospital in the hope of finding relief and having her health restored, but it was otherwise decreed and while for a time, her friends were hopeful of a complete recovery, her condition changed for the worse suddenly and in a short time death came as a sweet release, freeing her spirit from its tenement of clay to be at home with God.

She leaves to mourn her departure, three sisters as follows: MRS. FLORENCE MILLER, of Des Moines, Iowa; MRS. ALICE STANLEY, of Long Beach, California; and MRS. IDA JENREE, of St. Joseph, Mo., nephews, nieces, other relatives and many friends.

Funeral services were held at the home on Saturday afternoon, May lst, at 2 p.m., conducted by P.H. Green. Favorite hymns were sung by a quartet composed of the following voices: Mrs. Mary Boone, Mrs. Bert Woodard, Miss Ruth Elwell, Mrs. Orville Stout. The pall bearers were as follows: E. Housh, Julian Harris, J.M. Caster, Al Gammil, C.W. Hoffman, Fuller Avery, J.R. Bowsher.

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April 29, 2002