Richards, John E. 1899-1990

RICHARDS, TERRELL, BALMER, HAINES, MULBROOK

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Date: 7/28/2007 at 16:50:43

John E. Richards

John Everett Richards, 90, of Embassy Manor Care Cetner, a lifelong resident of Jasper County, died this morning, June 1, at the manor of heart failure.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Wallace-Pence Funeral Home.

The Rev. Robert Hinshaw, pastor of Ashton Chapel, will conduct services. Burial will be in Newton Union Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. Saturday. Visitation with the family will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

Memorials to the Salvation Army or the American Cancer Society will be accepted.

Survivors are three sons, L. Wayne Richards, Charles E. Richards and Robert D. Richards, all of Newton; 14 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, De Marise, in 1972, a daughter, Joann Terrell in 1987, a sister, Nellie Balmer, and two brothers, Charles Elias Richards and Daniel Timothy Richards.

Mr. Richards was a member of the First Christian Church and the Golden Age Club, of which he was chosen King twice.

Mr. Richards had worked for the Maytag Co., and for the Maytag Dairy Farms for 11 years. In the spring of 1937 he moved to Westwood Motel, which he had constructed several years previously, making it one of the first tourist cabin camps in the state. In 1949 he started the first trailer camp in Newton.

The son of John Meyer and Eva Haines Richards, he was born Aug. 21, 1899 south of Laurel in Jasper County.

He was married to De Marise Mulbrook in 1923 in Newton.

Mr. Ricahrds had lived in the Kellogg community for a few years before moving to Newton in 1917. ~ The Newton (IA) Daily News, June 1990