Stepp, Mollie Delk 1893-1991

STEPP, DELK, FOSTER, MATHERLY, CLIFTON, GIBSON

Posted By: Larry M. Hutchinson (email)
Date: 9/3/2005 at 14:24:30

Newton Daily News, March 27, 1991
Mollie Delk Stepp

Funeral services for Mollie D. Delk Stepp, 97, a resident of Friendship Manor in Grinnell for two and a half years and a former resident of Kellogg, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, March 28 at Reese Chapel.

The Rev. Robert Hinshaw, pastor of Ashton Chapel, north of Mingo, will conduct services. Burial will be in Our Silent City Cemetery in Kellogg.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. today. Visitation with the family will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Memorials to the Kellogg Volunteer Fire Department Ambulance Fund will be accepted.

She died Monday afternoon at Friendship Manor.

Survivors are two sons, Floyd of Kellogg and Menvil of Marshalltown; three daughters, Flonnie Matherly and Pearl Clifton, both of Grinnell, and Maggie Foster of Kellogg; 11 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; and seven-great-great grandchildren.

Also surviving are four half-brothers, Sherman Delk of Tennessee, Sterling Delk of Newton, Champ Delk of Grinnell and Jack Delk of Brooklyn; and a half-sister in California.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Aut, in 1975, two daughters, a brother, a sister, three grandchildren and two half-sisters.

Mrs. Stepp, a member of the Kellogg Historical Society, had been a press operator at Midwest Manufacturing in Kellogg for 19 years.

The daughter of Joe and Hailey Gibson Delk, she was born May 14, 1893 in Jamestown, Tenn., and attended Tennessee school.

She was married to Aut Stepp Dec. 21, 1912 in Tennessee.

Mrs. Stepp moved to the Kellogg area from Tennessee in 1926.