Allen Humphrey

HUMPHREY, TIEMAN, BARRACK, DOZE, JOHNSON, HATTON, MOORE, LARSON, WYBORNY

Posted By: Mari Nielsen - volunteer (email)
Date: 2/8/2010 at 11:53:20

ALLEN HUMPHREY
Steven Allen Humphrey, son of James Henry and Marie Anna Tieman Humphrey, was born September 13, 1919, in Winfield. He became ill with cancer in June, 1991, and died February 9, 1992, in Green Valley, Arizona, at the age of 72 years, four months and 27 days.

He married Jeannette J. Barrick on December 10, 1938. He then married Berta Doze on July 5, 1975, at the Little Brown Church in Nashua.

He farmed in Louisa County for 21 years. He worked for Farm Bureau Insurance Company as a Crop/Hail Supervisor in southeast Iowa for approximately 30 years.

He moved from Coralville, to Green Valley, Arizona, in September, 1991. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Wapello, and an affiliate member of the Valley Presbyterian Church in Green Valley. Al enjoyed woodworking, gardening, and liked to travel.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

His survivors include his wife, Berta Humphrey, Green Valley; four sons, Mike Humphrey and wife, Carolyn, Baldwin City, Kansas, Gary Humphrey and wife, Linda, Omaha, Nebraska, Larry Doze and wife, Angela, Rockford, Illinois, and Danny Doze and wife, Patty, Orlando, Florida; three sisters, Laurel Barrick and husband, Lester, Wapello, Frances Johnson, Monterey Park, California, and Shirley Hatton and husband, Walter, Winfield; brother Loren Humphrey and wife, Audrey, Burlington; mother-in-law, Gladys Moore, Humeston; 14 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and other relatives and friends.

Funeral Services were held Friday morning, February 14, at the Hutchinson Funeral Home in Humeston, with Rev. Clifford Haider officiating. Burial was in the Humeston Cemetery, with grandsons as bearers: Todd Doze, Brian Humphrey, Mark Humphrey, Timothy Jones, Larin Larson and Jeffrey Wyborny.

Source: newspaper clipping