DUNN, Jeptha 1860-1949

DUNN, RUSSELL

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Date: 10/26/2016 at 11:14:12

Jeptha Dunn, 89, Dies At Reinbeck

Services for Jeptha B. Dunn, 89, were held at the French funeral home Wednesday at 2:30 p.m., with burial in the Reinbeck cemetery. Rev. V. C. Grant officiated.

Mr. Dunn died Monday on the farm east of Reinbeck where he had lived since 1880. He had been ill several months.

Son of Cornelius and Sally Dunn, he was born at Iron Ridge, Wis., Jan. 12, 1860, and moved to Reinbeck at the age of 20. He married Ruby Russell of Hartford, Wis., March 5, 1884. She died Oct. 3, 1940, and his parents, two sisters and two brothers also preceded Mr. Dunn in death.

Surviving are one son, Russell, on the family farm, and a twin brother, Jasper Dunn of Scottsbluff, Nebr.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 28 July 1949, sec 2, pg 1