Olive Grace Wynkoop (1960)

WYNKOOP, PRICE, WRIGHT

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 4/25/2006 at 20:56:37

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
June 1960

GRACE WYNKOOP Rites Held At Earlham

Grace Wynkoop of Earlham, a school teacher for many years died Wednesday, June 15, 1960, at Memorial hospital in Winterset. She was 76 years of age.

Miss Wynkoop was a daughter of Simeon and Mary Wynkoop. She is survived by a brother, Clyde Wynkoop and three sisters, Louie Synkoop, Mrs. Roy Price and Mrs. Blanche Wright, all of Earlham.

Funeral services were held from the Earlham Methodist church, June 25, in charge of the Rev. Carl Crouse and the Rev. Paul Fotsch. Burial was made in the Fairview cemetery.
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Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, June 30, 1960

Services Held For Grace Wynkoop

Funeral services were held Saturday, June 25, at 2:00 p.m. at the Earlham Methodist church for Olive Grace Wynkoop.

Officiating were Rev. C. A. Crouse and Rev. Paul Fotsch.

Music was by Mervyn McLennan, soloist, accompanied by Mrs. McLennan. Mrs. Donna Belle Lane was organist.

Casket bearers were Avery Wynkoop, Kenneth Wynkoop, Robert Price, Herbert Price, Arthur Wright and Gale Marston.

Interment was in the cemetery at Fairview.

Olive Grace Wynkoop, daughter of Simeon and Mary Wynkoop, passed away at the Winterset hospital on June 23, 1960. She was born in Madison county on October 12, 1883 and was 76 years, 8 months and 11 days at the time of her death.

She attended the public schools of Madison county, graduating from the Earlham Academy in 1905. She attended Simpson College and Drake University where she received her degree. She taught school in Marne and Boone, then in the Des Moines Public Schools for 41 years until her retirement in 1952. She has made her home in Earlham since that time.

She joined the Fairview Methodist church in her girlhood, later transferring her membership to the First Methodist in Des Moines where she still was a member at the time of her death. Her Sunday School and church work were an important part of her life. She was a member of the Business Women’s class. Ill health made it impossible for her to take her usual place in the church at Earlham.

Her life was one of service. Everyone shared in her thoughtfulness; her family and her friends.

Surviving her are one brother, Clyde Wynkoop; three sister, Louie Wynkoop, Mrs. Pearl Price, Mrs. Blanche Wright; nieces, nephews and a host of friends. Preceding her in death were her parents, two brothers and four sisters.

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