Grosvenor, John Edward "Jack" 1926-1992

GROSVENOR, JOHNSON, MILBURN, HALLIBURTON, PAGE, KELLEY, MUNGER

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Date: 2/19/2014 at 10:01:56

Jack Grosvenor

John Edward “Jack” Grosvenor, 66, of 617 E. 4th St. S., a barber in Newton for 44 years, died Tuesday morning, Oct. 20, at the Skiff Medical center of Cancer.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the First United Methodist Church.

The Rev. Jerry Brown, senior pastor of the church, will conduct services. Burial will be in Newton Union Cemetery.

Friends may call at Wallace-Pence Funeral Home after noon Wednesday. Visitation with the family will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Memorials in his name will be accepted and notes of remembrance will be appreciated.

Survivors are his wife, Lois; a daughter, Kathie (Mrs. Steven) Johnson of Bridgeville, Pa.; and five grandchildren.

Also surviving are two sisters, Joan (Mrs. Don) Milburn of Grinnell and Jane (Mrs. Cal) Halliburton of Ames and a daughter-in-law Mickie Page of Tempe, Ariz.

He was preceded in death by his parents, mother in 1950, father in 1957, and a son, Mike, in 1981.

Mr. Grosvenor, a member of the First United Methodist Church for more than 50 years, was a member of American Legion Post 111, Emerson Hough chapter of the Izaak Walton League, Ducks Unlimited and Woodworkers Club.

He was a member of the Jasper County Historical Society, of which he was past president. During his term of office he started Heritage Days and the Christmas open house. He helped organize the Newton Booster Club, had served as president of the Newton Alumni Association and was on the committee to name H. A. Lynn Field.

Mr. Grosvenor, a veteran of the navy during World War II, and his wife, Lois, were named the first couple to be grand marshals of the Cardinal Relays.

The son of John E. and Olive Kelley Grosvenor, he was born April 15, 1926 in Marshalltown and was a 1944 graduate of Newton Community High School.

He was married to Lois Munger March 1, 1946 in the Little Brown Church near Nashua. ~ Newspaper unknown, possibly The Des Moines Register or The Newton (IA) Daily News, Oct 1992.