Stepp, F.M. 1880-1963

STEPP, NOETHE, HESSON, BROWN, BURKE, VAUGHAN, CROCKETT

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Date: 1/31/2010 at 09:47:33

The Newton Daily News (Newton, Iowa) May 14, 1963

F.M. STEPP, 83, LONGTIME KELLOGG RESIDENT, DIES

F.M. Stepp, 83, of Kellogg, a resident of Jasper County since 1909, died at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday at the Nelson Manor Nursing Home.

Mr. Stepp had been a resident of Nelson Manor since December.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Johnson Funeral Home in Newton.

The Rev. Morris Hay will conduct the services. Burial will be in Newton Memorial Park.

Mr. Stepp is survived by two daughters, Mrs. E.M. (Roxie) Noethe of Slayton, Minn., and Mrs. Don E. (Leatha) Hesson of Newton; three sons, Proctor and Earl Stepp of Kellogg and Bates Stepp of Newton; six grandchildren; a great-granddaughter; three sisters, Mrs. Nola Brown of Owensboro, Ky., Mrs. Nina Burke of Slavens, Ky., and Mrs. Nan Vaughan of Des Moines; and a brother, Otto Stepp of Kellogg.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife in 1959, a son, a daughter and three sisters.

Mr. Stepp was a member of the Baptist Church in Tennessee.

The son of James and Melvina Crockett Stepp, he was born March 20, 1880 in Jamestown, Tenn.

Educated in the Jamestown schools, he came to the Kellogg area in 1909.

He was married to Hattie Crockett Dec. 26, 1900.

Mr. Stepp was a retired farmer.

NOTE: Obituary of his wife, Hattie, has marriage year as 1902.