Dr. D. B. Staggs (1872-1943)

STAGGS, VAN EPPS, SUTTON

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 10/21/2010 at 15:31:02

Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa February 19, 1943

OBITUARY

Dr. Douglas B. Staggs

Dr. Douglas B. Staggs, son of George and Maria Fuller Staggs, was born January 23, 1872, at DeWitt, Iowa. He became ill February 9th and was taken to Mercy Hospital, Anamosa on February 11th, where he passed away on February 13, 1943.

In the public schools of his birthplace, Dr. Staggs began his education and after completing the high school course in 1893, he entered upon medical studies at Hahnemann College, Chicago, Illinois. In the spring of 1896 he received his degree of Medical Doctor from the institution and immediately engaged in the practice of medicine in Low Moor, Iowa, remaining there until 1898. In that year he came to Monmouth, which has been the place of his labors.

He was president of the Monmouth School Board and telephone company and mayor of Monmouth, in which capacity he was serving at the time of his death. He was a member of the Monmouth Community Church and of Keystone Masonic Lodge of Wyoming.

In January, 1897, Dr. Staggs was married to Mae Van Epps at Low Moor, Iowa. Two sons were born to that union, Earl of Maquoketa and Harold of Monmouth. On November 7, 1925, he was married to Marjorie Sutton of Monmouth, who with the two sons survive. Also surviving are a stepdaughter, Mrs. Anadria Caraway of Monmouth; two brothers, O. E. Staggs of DeWitt and C. H. Staggs of Los Angeles, California; two sisters, Mrs. J. H. Phillbert of DeWitt and Miss Edith Staggs of Davenport; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild; an aunt, Mrs. H. B. Mills of Chicago and many distant relatives.

Funeral services were held in the Methodist Church on Tuesday, the Rev. Rev. F. E. Mastin of McCausland and the Rev. Robert Marshall of Chicago, officiating. Hymns were sung by Jess L. Tomlinson of Hopkinton, accompanied by Mrs. S. A. Orris, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Zak and Mrs. Ann Best had charge of the flowers. Pall bearers were E. S. Heath, E.R. Bristol, Howard Gee, George Trimble, J. W. Allen, William Hurst, S. A. Orris and Joe Nowachek. Burial was in the Monmouth Cemetery. Masonic burial services were in charge of Lee M, Sherrill.