Esther G. Brockway

BROCKWAY, SHERIDAN, GORDON, OGDEN

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Date: 9/22/2018 at 08:43:54

Wapello Republican, January 17, 1935, page 1

Funeral services were held for Mrs. Esther G. Brockway, who died Tuesday of last week at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Claud Sheridan in Oakville, at the Kingston M. E. church Thursday afternoon. Interment was made in the Kossuth cemetery.

Esther Gordon was born at Terre Haute, Ind., December 11, 1868; died at Oakville, Iowa, January 8, 1935, aged 66 years and 27 days. When 14 years of age she came to Iowa with her parents. They settled at Kingston, where she grew to womanhood and where on October 7, 1886, she was united in marriage to Frank Brockway, who preceded her in death. Death came to both of them in their 66th year and at the same hour on the same day of the week.

To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Brockway was born five children, four sons and one daughter, all of whom are living and mourn the death of a kind and loving mother. The children are: Mrs. Edna Sheridan, and Harley Brockway, of Oakville; Fred and Frank Brockway of Mediapolis, and Arthur Brockway, Wapello. She is also survived by two brothers, Pearl Gordon, of Chicago, Henry Gordon of Burlington, and one sister, Mrs. Ida Ogden, of Nevada, Mo.; and fifteen grandchildren. One sister and two brothers preceded her in death.