Scarbrough, Wilbur B. – 1915-1988

BRIGGS, DORAN, GIFFORD, HART, MACHIN, MINEAR, PAUL, SAMSON, SCARBROUGH, VANDERWAAL

Posted By: Donna Sloan Rempp
Date: 8/25/2016 at 22:46:07

Funeral services for Wilbur B. “Bill” Scarbrough, 73, of 1426 1st Ave. E., Apartment 1B, a lifelong resident of Jasper County, were held today, March 7, at the Community Reformed Church.
The Rev. Paul Nulton, pastor of the church, conducted services. Burial was in the Newton Memorial Park Cemetery.
Visitation with the family was held Sunday at the Wallace-Pence Funeral Home.
He died Friday at the Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.
Memorial contributions to the Blank Childrens Hospital in Des Moines will be accepted.
Survivors are his wife, Mary Alyce; a son, Robert A. Scarbrough of Newton; two daughters, Linda (Mrs. Dennis) Machin of Kellogg and Jodi Doran of Marshalltown; five grandchildren; and three sisters, Jerry (Mrs. Ralph) Hart of Oskaloosa, Maxine (Mrs. Richard) Briggs of Lynnville and Mardelle (Mrs. Paul) Minear of Des Moines.
He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers, Howard, Frank and Clark, and three sisters, Blanche, Marie Gifford and Ethel Samson.
Mr. Scarbrough, a member of the Community Reformed Church and the Moose Lodge, was an Army veteran of World War II.
He had farmed in Jasper County, and had worked at the One Minute Washing machine Co., the Maytag Co. during the Korean War era, and at Wilding Plumbing and Heating Co.
The son of Joseph Burton and Nellie J. Vanderwaal Scarbrough, he was born Feb. 18, 1915 in rural Killduff and was educated in Jasper County schools.
He was married to Mary Alyce Paul Jan. 8, 1949 in Harrison, Ark.
Source: Newton Daily News; Monday, 07 March 1988