RICHMOND, John 1913-1950

RICHMOND

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 4/7/2015 at 21:53:20

John Richmond Dies at Hospital

John Richmond son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Richmond of Des Moines, died at the veterans hospital in Des Moines at 5 o'clock on July 4th. He had been a patient in the hospital for eight months. He had been afflicted with asthma for several years. This condition was aggravated during the late war when John served in the U.S. Navy. He was 37 years old.

John was born on a farm a mile west of Morrison. He attended school in Grundy Center several years and later the Reinbeck school from which he graduated.

Funeral services will be held at the Coffman Funeral Home in Grundy Center Saturday afternoon at two o'clock. The service will be conducted by Dr. Yates of the Westminster Presbyterian church, Des Moines.

Surviving are the parents and one brother, Dan Richmond Jr.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 6 July 1950, pg 1