Wolfe, Edward Frank – 1891-1934

BARR, DEWILD, KAYLER, WILLIAMS, WOLFE

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 3/30/2017 at 12:34:57

Funeral For Edward Wolfe Held Sunday
Funeral services were held for Edward Frank Wolfe Sunday at 2 p.m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Barr, with Rev. J. M. Carlson in charge. Interment was in the Monroe cemetery.
The text was taken from Thess 1. “I would not have you to be ignorant heathen concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.”
Edward Frank Wolfe, who died Friday evening, Jan. 5, 1934, at 10:30 after a lingering illness of two years and part of which time he was a patient at the State hospital at Iowa City, was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, June 1, 1891. Mr. Wolfe moved to the state of Iowa when a youth and was married to Letha Barr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Barr of Monroe at Moulton, Iowa in 1918. To this union were born two boys, Edward and Claud and one daughter, Mary, who survive him. Mrs. Wolfe died ten years ago.
The children make their home with the grandparents in Monroe.
Besides the children, Mr. Wolfe is survived by his aged mother who lives with a sister, Mrs. Emma Kayler in Akron, Ohio, another sister, Anna, residing at Clemon, Mich., two sisters, Lizzie and Kate and a brother Will, who live in the east.
The pall bearers were Dr. R. S. McLaughlin, Laurel Buckley, John Palmer, Howard Roberts, John Fennema and Dick Vander Leest.
Among those attending the services from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. Ray Barr, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. DeWild Jr., of Des Moines and Miss Jessie Williams of Red Rock.
Source: Jasper County Mirror; Thursday, January 11, 1934