Thornton, Ralph J. died 1953

THORNTON, WHITE, FLOYD

Posted By: Laura, Coordinator (email)
Date: 4/22/2020 at 08:21:06

Hardin County Index (Eldora, IA), 26 June 1953, Friday, p.1

Funeral services were held Thursday morning from Honey Creek Church for Ralph J. Thornton, 66, who died Monday evening at this home southwest of Liscomb after several months of failing health. Interment followed in the Honey Creek Cemetery.

The son of Levander and Evaline Thornton, he was born in Providence Township February 3, 1887, and with the exception of seven years in New Jersey spent his entire life in Hardin and Marshall counties.

On October 14, 1909, he was united in marriage with Anna White, daughter of Abner and Bessie White.

Surviving are his wife and adopted son, Charles, of Marshalltown, one sister, Mrs. Everette Floyd, Flemington, NJ, two brothers, Claude, of Dover, Del, and Charles, of Phoenix, Ariz. His parents and two brothers preceded him in death.