SYMES, Alfred Henry 1871-1953

SYMES, COOK, GILL, BAKER, NORRIS

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Date: 10/17/2012 at 12:23:56

Alfred Henry Symes – November 3, 1871 – January 19, 1953

FUNERAL FOR A.H. SYMES AT NORA SPRINGS

Nora Springs – Funeral services for A. H. Symes, 81, will be held Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at the Sheckler Funeral Home, the Rev. J. Ellis Webb, pastor of the Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery at Rockford. He died Monday at a hospital in Mason City where he had been a patient for six days.

Alfred Henry Symes was born November 3, 1871, at Askerwell, Dorset, England. He was the only child of Samuel and Mary Gill Symes. His mother died soon after he was born.

Mr. Symes came to the United States in 1890, settling at Stillman Valley, Illinois. He was married to Birdie Alice Cook at Lindenwood, Illinois, on October 17, 1900. The couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1950.

They had five children. One of them, a daughter, Ethel, died in 1936. Mr. and Mrs. Symes came to Iowa, in 1935, moving to the old Pickford farm west of Nora Springs. In 1944 they retired from farming and moved to the home which they had purchased in Nora Springs.

Mr. Symes had been a farmer from the time he came to the United States until his retirement. He held various school offices in the rural Columbia district near Rockford. In England he had been affiliated with the Presbyterian Church.

Survivors are his wife; two sons; Ray Symes of Rockford; and Walter Symes of Manly; two daughters; Mrs. Wayne (Clara) Baker of Nora Springs and Mrs. Ed (Dorothy) Norris of Mason city; and 18 grandchildren.

Mason City Globe Gazette, Wednesday January 21, 1953