Rexroat, Kemper Samuel (1870-1947)

REXROAT, SHORT, DAUGHERTY, JONES, SPARKS, EATON, KLOPPING, LUST, NOON, CANFIELD, MCKEE

Posted By: Sherry Faidley Healy (email)
Date: 9/5/2006 at 09:47:56

Monday March 31, 1947 Newton (IA) Daily News
Kemper Rexroat Dies Saturday After Brief Illness

Kemper Samuel Rexroat, 76, died at the Skiff Memorial hospital at 7:55 p.m. Saturday, following a brief illness due to a heart ailment.

He was born May 25, 1870, in Jasper County, where he has spent most of his life in the farming business. Mr. and Mrs. Rexroat celebrated their golden wedding anniversary April 16, 1942.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Rachel Benjamin Rexroat, who passed away Jan. 21 of this year, and by his two oldest children, who died in infancy and a sister, Mrs. Rose Short; also a brother, Frank Rexroat.

Survivors include eight children; Richard of California, Leonard, Enoch, Mrs. Mary Daugherty, Mrs. Grace Jones, Mrs. Sarah Sparks, and Mrs. Alice Eaton and Mrs. Helen Klopping, all of Newton; also 7 brothers and sisters. Bert of California, Merrill of Millerton, Mrs. Nannie Lust of Reasnor, Mrs. Anice Lust and Mrs. Kate Noon of Monroe, Mrs. Myrtle Canfield of Des Moines, and Mrs. Pearl McKee, Newton and 50 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held from the Murdoch Funeral home at 2. p.m. Wednesday with Rev. I. R. Bower of the Full Gospel church officiating. Burial will be in Palo Alto Cemetery.

Mrs. Maurice Rodgers will sing "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Going Down the Valley"., with accompaniment by Mrs. R. I. Jackson.

Mrs. Lawrence Shankland and Mrs. Victor Klopping will be in charge of flowers.

Pall bearers will be John Frith, Lawrence Shankland, Gene White, Dolar Hutt, John Healey, and Pat Healey.