Weldon, Lloyd R. – 1904-1981

CRESSE, GILDERSLEEVE, JAMES, KLEINENDORST, ROBBINS, WELDON

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 6/17/2017 at 15:31:06

Resident’s Brother Dies
Funeral services for Lloyd R. Weldon, 87, a resident of Newton since 1918, were held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 24, at the Wallace Funeral Home in Newton.
Dr. Richard Bentzinger, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, conducted services. Burial was in the Newton Memorial Park Cemetery.
He died Sunday, Dec. 21, at the Skiff Memorial Hospital.
Survivors are his wife, Elsie; a son, James of Belle Plaine, a daughter Mrs. Willard (Barbara) James of Vernal, Utah; three sisters, Helen Weldon of Colfax, Mrs. Russell (Melba) Gildersleeve of Kellogg and Mrs. Cotton (Lucille) Robbins of Demming, N.M.
He was preceded in death by his parents, brother, John, in 1960 and a sister in infancy.
Mr. Weldon was associated with W and W Furniture and Bottle Gas and Merchants Transfer.
The son of Louis and Maggie Estella Creese Weldon, he was born Oct. 31, 1904 in Decatur County.
He was married to Elsie Kleinendorst Feb. 28, 1931 in Grand River.
Source: The Jasper County Tribune; Thursday, January 1, 1981