KEPNER, Roy c1879-1952

KEPNER, BARKHURST

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 3/17/2011 at 20:59:17

BURIED IN FLOYD COUNTY

Last Rites at Osage
for Retired Farmer

OSAGE, IOWA — Funeral services for Roy Kepner, 73, will be held Saturday at 3:30 p. m. at the Champion Funeral Home with burial in the Floyd Cemetery. He died Thursday at a nursing home in Stacyville.

Survivors include two sons, John and Ambrose of Charles City; seven grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and a brother, Darrell of Mechanicsville.

Mr. Kepner was born in Cedar County, lived at Mechanicsville following his marriage to Myrtle Barkhurst in 1900, later coming to a farm near Orchard where they lived for many years before retiring to Orchard. His wife died in August 1951.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, Saturday, December 20, 1952]