MOUNT, Margaret LYONS, 1880 - 1931

MOUNT, LYONS, HOOPES, LYON, RODGERS

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 3/21/2011 at 17:07:23

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Tuesday, March 10, 1931
Page 3, Column 6

Word has been received here of the death Feb. 26 in Los Angeles, Calif., of Mrs. George MOUNT. Mrs. MOUNT had been an invalid for several years. Before her marriage she was Miss Margaret LYONS of Brighton and is well known in that community. Her husband, who survives, was raised on a farm east of Fairfield by Mr. and Mrs. John HOOPES. She is also survived by two sons, John and George. Burial was made in Englewood Cemetery at Los Angeles on February 28.

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"The Fairfield Ledger"
Monday, March 16, 1931
Page 8, Column 3

MRS. GEORGE MOUNT.

Margaret Ann LYON, born in Jefferson County near Brighton on September 24th 1880. Parents. J. W. LYON, deceased, and (Jane) Letitia (RODGERS) LYON, now living with a daughter in Barnum, Minn. Graduated from Brighton high school in 1900. Special music student at Parsons College 1901-3. Student at Iowa State Teachers College, summers of 1904 and 1905. Student at State University of Iowa 1907-10. Member of Fairfield M.E. church. United in marriage on Aug. 18, 1903 to George H. MOUNT of Fairfield. Mr. and Mrs. MOUNT spent the years 1903-5 at Algona, Iowa, and 1905-7 at Kanawha, Iowa, where Mr. MOUNT was teacher and principal in the public schools. 1907-10 was spent at Iowa City where Mr. MOUNT was a graduate student, receiving the degree of doctor of Philosophy. 1910-11 was spent in Marquette, Mich., where Mr. MOUNT was professor of psychology in the Northern Michigan State Normal School. 1911-1921 was spent at Cedar Falls, Iowa, where Mr. MOUNT was professor of psychology. 1921-23 at Dubuque, Iowa, where Mr. MOUNT was professor of psychology and philosophy in Dubuque University. 1923-24 at Durham, North Carolina, where Mr. MOUNT was professor of psychology at Duke University. At Los Angeles, Calif., since 1925, where Mr. MOUNT has been head of the department of psychology at the University of Southern California.

Mrs. MOUNT became totally blind in 1917 due to a brain tumor which finally caused her death on February 26. Interred in Inglewood Park Cemetery on February 28th. Survivors: Husband, George H. MOUNT, two children, John William, age 17, and George Edwin, age 13.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I am not related to the person(s) mentioned.

Note: Husband George H. MOUNT died in Mexico in 1965, and his ashes were scattered here in Jefferson County on a farm that he owned in 1913.