David M. Downs (1957)

DOWNS, HERN, KINNAIRD, MILLER, WHITSON

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 5/7/2006 at 21:12:13

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, September 11, 1957

DAVID DOWNS Of Winterset Dies

David M. Downs, a long-time resident of the St. Charles community and a veteran of World War I, died Friday, Sept. 6, 1957, at his home in Winterset. He was 66 years of age.

Mr. Downs was born at St. Charles on Jan. 3, 1891, a son of James and Mary Downs. His early life was spent there, with the exceptions of a few years in Spokane, Wash., and Gainesville, Mo.

In the spring of 1917 he enlisted in Company A, 168th Infantry regiment of the Rainbow division, and served on the western front in World War I, where he was wounded in action.

He was married in November, 1925, to Inez Kinnaird. They were the parents of one daughter. The wife and mother died in 1937.

For more than 20 years Mr. Downs was employed by Madison couonty, then went to work as a guard at the Ft. Madison penitentiary, for more than 14 years. He retired in 1955.

In August of 1955 he was married to Millie Miller of Winterset, and had made his home here since that time.

Surviving are his wife; the daughter, Bonnie Lee Whitson of Springfield, Mo.; three step children, Willard and Donald Miller of Des Moines and Mrs. Vivian Hern of Gilbertville; a brother, A. B. Downs of Cumberland, Wisc., and eight grandchildren.

Funeral services were held this Monday from the Richards Funeral home, conducted by the Rev. S. C. Picken, pastor of the Winterset United Presbyterian church. Burial was made in the St. Charles cemetery, with military services at the grave-side by Green-Rogers post of the American Legion.

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