Choate, Glen Blanchard (1897-1945)

CHOATE, FORD, WOLVERTON, JOHNSON, SCHERER, SHANNON, TYLER

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 12/12/2020 at 10:52:02

Webster City Freeman, Webster City, Iowa, Thursday, August 2, 1945

DIED TUESDAY AT HOSPITAL

Glen B. Choate, 48, died Tuesday evening at the hospital here, following a lingering illness of three years. He had been a patient at the Iowa City hospital two weeks after going there May 9, and since then had been a patient at the Webster City hospital.

Funeral services will be held Friday morning at 9:30 at the Foster funeral home, Elder Guy Fowler of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ, Latter Day Saints, officiating. The body will be taken to the Hill of Zion church in Adair county for services at 2:30 p.m., with burial in the cemetery there.

Son of Lewis and Margaret Choate, Glen Blanchard Choate was born May 5, 1897 on a farm in Union county, near Creston. As a small boy he moved with his parents to a farm near Stuart, Iowa, returning several years later to the Creston community. There he was married Dec. 27, 1917, to Ethel Ford.

They farmed in Adair county for several years and also in Minnesota. The past seven years they had lived in Hamilton county and for several years, Mr. Choate had been herdsman for the Aberdeen-Angus herd owned by Fred Hahne.

The present home, where they had resided since February, is located one mile northwest of Webster City.

Mr. Choate was preceded in death by his father, one infant daughter and two sisters. Surviving are his wife, and two daughters, Glennadine June, 15, and Rowena Maye, 11; his mother, Mrs. Margaret Choate of Creston; five sisters, Mrs. Ray Wolverton of Conrad, Mont.; Mrs. Chester Johnson of Great Falls, Mont.; Mrs. Arthur Scherer of Afton, Iowa; Mrs. Del Shannon of Shannon City, Iowa and Mrs. Hugh Tyler of Lenox, Iowa, also two brothers, Forrest of Waterloo, a former resident of Webster City, and Fred of Ledger, Mont.

Mr. Choate was a member of Hill of Zion church, having joined as a small boy.