ALLEN, Leota (died 1946)

ALLEN, ARHART

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 1/1/2010 at 20:06:09

CHARLES CITY, IOWA — Funeral services have been tentatively set for Monday afternoon at the Marble Rock Methodist church for Mrs. Leota Allen, pioneer resident of Floyd County, who had been making her home of late years with Mrs. Ella White, of South Main Street here.

She died Thursday following a stroke. After being released from the hospital here recently, she went to the home of a daughter, Mrs. Earl Arhart, where she died.

She leaves a son, Ross Allen, Floyd, and eight daughters: Mrs. Wayne Arhart and Mrs. Earl Arhart, Marble Rock; Nora Allen, Floyd; Mrs. Herbert Lewis, Charles City; Mrs. Herbert Hilliges Greene; Mrs. Harvey Gabel, Rockford; Mrs. Louis MesKimmen, Clinton, Illinois, and Mrs. Leland Chehak in Arizona.

Her husband and two sons preceded her in death.

[Waterloo Sunday Courier Sunday, May 5, 1946]