GARRETSON, Joel Howard, 1890-1952

GARRETSON, JOHNSON, DILTS, WOOLLS

Posted By: Betty Hootman (email)
Date: 2/11/2012 at 15:54:19

Mount Pleasant (IA) News
12 April 1953

Dr. Garretson Dies Suddenly.

Dr. J. H. Garretson, 63, a prominent osteopathic physician in Mt. Pleasant and Salem for 31 years died suddenly of a heart attack at his home six miles southeast of Salem at 11 p.m. Tuesday. His death came at a shock since he was not ill before the attack. He was stricken shortly after retiring. A doctor was called but Dr. Garretson was dead when he arrived. Mrs. Garretson, her mother Mrs. C. J. Johnson, and the Garretson's daughter Josephine were at home at the time.

Funeral services will be held at the Crane funeral home Friday at 1 p.m. Interment will be in the Salem cemetery. Friends and relatives may call at the funeral home.

Joel Howard Garretson was born near Salem, June 26, 1890, the son of Owen A. and Emma Dilts Garretson. He attended Iowa Wesleyan college for two years and then attended the Kirkville College of Osteopathy at Kirkville, Mo. graduating in 1916. He started his practice in Forsyth, Mont., that year and while there met his wife, the former Mae A. Johnson. The couple returned to Henry County in 1922 and he practiced at Salem for a few years and then in Mt. Pleasant since that time. His office was on the east side of the square.

The Garretsons lived in Mt. Pleasant until 1933 and then moved to the country home near Salem. He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, the Salem Masonic lodge and the Eastern Star. Surviving besides Mrs. Garretson and Josephine M. at home, are two sons, Charles O. of Mt. Pleasant and Joel H. Jr. of Salem, another daughter Mrs. Virginia Woolls, Salem; a twin broher Herman J. of Pasadena, Calif., and several grandchildren and nephews. Four brothers preceded him in death. They were Wendell A., Gilbert I., Sumner D. and Owen A. Garretson.