Orcutt, George Henry – 1871-1940

CHARLTON, KING, ORCUTT, SHAW

Posted By: Donna Sloan Rempp (email)
Date: 8/8/2016 at 15:45:21

George H. Orcutt, lifetime Monroe resident died early Tuesday morning in the Iowa Methodist hospital in Des Moines following a three week illness. He was 69 years old.
George Henry Orcutt was born on a farm near Otley in Marion County, Iowa, March 19, 1871. He was the son of George and Martha Jane Orcutt. He was one of seven children, all of whom preceded him in death. During a part of his early childhood the family resided in California. In about 1881 they returned to Iowa settling in Jasper County near Monroe. He was married to Lolo Shaw of Monroe, Dec. 11, 1895.
For a period of time Mr. Orcutt engaged in the Lumber business and the Brick and Tile business, and for more than 35 years he has been actively engaged in farming in Jasper County. He always took an active interest in all Civic events. He knew that a city and a state, and no less a nation, are people, not “interests”. He knew that the whole world is people, and his spirit looked out to all of them and sought to relate the thinking of men to the broadest and greatest of human goals – a tolerable because decent and fair environment for every group of God’s humans. He had a broad, philosophic understanding of people and their slow progress; he was the kind of man, a real believer in his fellows. A good and versatile and gentle and able and very useful man was George Orcutt.
He is survived by his wife and two daughters, Grace Charlton of Des Moines and Helen King of Peoria, Illinois and by 4 grandchildren, Ann and Henry Charlton and Xantha and Martha King.
Funeral services were held today at the home with services in charge of Rev. E. L. Patterson. Interment Monroe Cemetery.
Source: Newspaper Unknown; _____ 1940