A. W. Kendall(1857-1939)

KENDALL, BOWMAN, KEHN

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 7/22/2008 at 23:21:16

Jackson Sentinel
April 4, 1939

Rites Sunday for Well-Known Maquoketan
A. W. Kendall, Former State Representative, Dies Suddenly

A. W. Kendall, 81, one of Maquoketa’s prominent residents, and a former state representative from Clinton county, passed away at his home on West Platt street at 10:15 o’clock on Friday morning following a brief illness.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the family home and at 2:30 o’clock at the Methodist church with Rev. H. D. Green officiating assisted by Rev. H. H. Dill of Independence, a former Maquoketa pastor. Pall bearers were Haven and Lewis Kendall, Melvin Ebersole, Lloyd Riffle, Wilbur Quinn and Leonard Poole, grandsons of the deceased. Interment was made in Mt. Hope cemetery.

Albert Washington Kendall, son of Richard and Mary Bowman Kendall, was born May 3, 1857, on South Otto street in Maquoketa, Iowa. At the age of five years, the family moved four miles east of Maquoketa to the Kendall quarry where he lived until 24 years of age, when he married Margaret Anna Kehn, daughter of Adam and Mary Eckard Kehn on January 25, 1882 at her father’s home near Delmar, Iowa. On March 9, 1882 they moved to their own farm where they lived until 1917 when they moved to their present home in Maquoketa.

Mr. Kendall was state representative from Clinton county in the years 1901-1909, serving in the regular 32nd and 33rd Iowa assembly sessions and also the 32nd extra session. He was a member of the first board of the Delmar Consolidated school district. He had enjoyed excellent health until recently and maintained an active interest in community and political affairs.

Left to mourn his passing are his wife and ten children, namely, Howard, Mrs. Hattie Jacobsen, Bert, Olive and Alfred of Maquoketa; Ernest, Mrs. Blanche Poole and Mrs. Hazel Cassin of Delmar; Floyd of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Sylvia Witzke of Davenport; also nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

Preceding him in death were a son, Rollie R. who passed away at Camp Oglethorpe, Georgia, October 26, 1918, and a daughter, Mrs. Ethel Ebersole, who passed away at Delmar, Iowa, on July 3, 1924; also one granddaughter, Mrs. Ernest Riffle, who passed away on October 29, 1937.

Among the out of town relatives and friends attending the funeral rites were Carl E. Rylander of Davenport; Mr. and Mrs. Frank O’Toole of Belle Plaine; Sen. John L. Wilson, Mrs. Marion Allen, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Day and Mr. and Mrs. Chester Dickensen of Clinton; Mrs. Frank Hendricks of Sabula; Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Quinn of Ames; Mr. and Mrs. John Donley of Sterling, Ill.; Miss Donna Shreve of Thompson, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Kakert of Bettendorf, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Scott of Monticello, Iowa, and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brown of Charlotte.