HOOD, John J. 1869-1938

HOOD, MORRISON

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Date: 1/23/2022 at 10:13:58

Jeff Hood Died Saturday From Effect of Stroke

Jeff Hood, widely known Grundy county farmer, died at his home at Morrison at 1:15 Saturday afternoon from the effects of a second stroke of paralysis that came to him a week before. He passed through a severe siege of pneumonia in the fall of 1936 which left him in a weakened condition from which he had apparently recovered before his was stricken a week before his death. Mr. Hood had only recently moved from a farm a short distance west of Dike to Morrison.

Obituary
John Jefferson Hood, son of John J. and Sally Ann Hood, was born in Livingstone county, Missouri, on March 15, 1869, and passed away at his home in Morrison January 15, 1938, at the age of 68 years and 10 months.

At the age of five years he moved with his parents to Adair county, Mo., where he resided until early manhood, when he came to Grundy county to make his home. On February 3, 1903, he was united in marriage to Miss Floy Morrison by Rev. Goodsell, pastor of the Methodist church in Morrison. This union was blessed with three children. A daughter, Crystal, died in Atlanta, Mo., Aug. 18, 1904, at the age of a few months. In addition to the widow, Mr. Hood is survived by two children, Mrs. Mildred Creswell, who lives north of Morrison, and by a son, Hulon, who is at home. He is also survived by an only sister, Mrs. Mary Clark, and a niece, Miss Nan Elmore of Kirksville, Mo. Several other nieces and nephews live elsewhere. Two brothers and two sisters preceded him in death.

In 1910 Mr. and Mrs. Hood removed to Morrison. With the exception of a brief residence in Missouri, the family home has been in or near Morrison since that time. For the past thirteen years they resided on a farm just west of Dike. On Dec. 6, 1937, they moved into the home they recently purchased in Morrison, as a comfortable home in which to spend the later years of a useful life.

Funeral services were conducted at the Presbyterian church in Morrison by Rev. J. B. Bird of the Methodist church in Grundy Center, at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 18. Russell Kruse, accompanied by Miss Myrtle Robinson at the piano, sang two beautiful numbers, "No, Not One" and "Rock of Ages." The pallbearers were Henry Hayes, Carson Lundt and George Viet of Dike, and John Nelson, Manne Bakker and Eugene Bryant of Morrison. Interment was made in the Morrison cemetery.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 20 January 1938, pg 1