Jay Stapp

STAPP, LETTS, SHANNON, OWENS, JOHNSON

Posted By: Beverly Gerdts (email)
Date: 1/17/2024 at 10:13:46

Columbus Gazette, Columbus Junction, Iowa
Thursday, September 7, 1922
Page 1

Jay Stapp, prominent young farmer of this community, died at nine o'clock this Thursday morning at Longmont, Colorado, following an automobile accident in which he suffered a fractured skull and other injuries. Particulars of the accident are lacking at this time. Mr. Stapp left Columbus Junction two weeks ago, going to Des Moines to visit the state fair a few days and went from there to Longmont, to join his wife and two sons, who had gone west about two weeks before to visit at the home of her father, at Longmont. Jay Stapp was one of this communities best known and most esteemed young men and the message telling of his death, has cast a gloom of sadness over a wide circle of relatives and friends. Since the death of his father, J, J, Stapp, nearly three years ago, he has been the chief counselor and adviser of his mother. The parents moved from the farm northwest of this city to Columbus Junction about sixteen years ago. Jay then attended school at Ames several terms and later married a young lady of Longmont, Colorado and moved onto the home farm which he later purchased.

He was about thirty-five years of age and is survived by his wife and two sons, Donald, aged ten and Robert aged eight, by his mother Mrs. J. J. Stapp of this city and one brother, Leroy Stapp of Charlestown, West Virginia and four sisters, Mrs. Frank B. Letts, of Charlestown, West Virginia, Mrs. Fred J. Shannon, of Davenport, Mrs. Harry Owens, of Los Angeles, California and Mrs. O. C. Johnson of Middleton, Ohio. The body will be brought here for interment but no announcement can be made at this time in regard to the funeral service.