Floyd H. Hamilton (1931)

DUFF, HAMILTON, JOHNSON, NEFF, SCOTT, WALL

Posted By: Linda Brittain
Date: 7/26/2006 at 14:57:03

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, June 4, 1931
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Death of Floyd Hamilton

Funeral services for Floyd Hamilton, former Winterset resident will be held at the Tidrick funeral home Thursday afternoon, June 4, at 3:30 o’clock, conducted by the Reverend A. P. Keast. Burial will be in the Winterset cemetery. Mr. Hamilton who has been a postal clerk at the Des Moines post office became ill last Wednesday with pneumonia. He was taken to the Methodist hospital on Sunday and died there Tuesday night.

Mr. Hamilton is preceded in death by his wife and infant daughter Dorothy. Mr. Hamilton was married again two years ago and is survived by his wife and son Harry, his mother, Mrs. Lou Hamilton, three sisters, Mrs. Thornton Duff, Mrs. A. W. Johnson of Winterset and Mrs. B. H. Neff of Des Moines and one brother, Oscar of Kansas City.

Floyd, who was 33 years of age, was raised in Winterset, and was graduated from the Winterset high school in 1917. He moved to Des Moines, where he has since been employed, shortly after that.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, June 11, 1931
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Floyd H. Hamilton

Floyd H., son of Joseph J. and Lousia (Louisa) Hamilton, was born at Pleasant Hill, Mo., December 23, 1898.

When he was eleven years of age he came with the family to Winterset, Iowa. Here Floyd attended school and graduated from the Winterset High School in the class of 1917.

He was married to Ethel Scott in April of 1919 and to them two children were born, Dorothy who died at the age of 2 years and Harry who has been making his home with the Thornton Duff family. They moved to Des Moines after their marriage and for the first year Floyd clerked in a drug store and then entered the postal service in the Des Moines post office.

His wife passed away on January 27, 1926, and Floyd continued living in Des Moines and working the postal service.

He was married to Nelle Wall in 1928.

When a boy he attended the M. E. Sunday school and while not a member of the church he was a believer in Christ. Two of his outstanding virtues were his extreme loyalty to his friends and his faithfulness to his work. He has never been strong and in the later years worked much of the time when work would have been impossible for one of less determined spirit and he worked until the Wednesday before his death which came after an attack of pneumonia, on June 2, 1931, at the age of 32 years.

He leaves beside his wife and son Harry, his mother, Mrs. Louisa Hamilton of Winterset, one brother Oscar of Kansas City, three sisters, Mrs. Thornton Duff and Mrs. A. W. Johnson of Winterset, and Mrs. B. H. Neff of Des Moines. Beside these he leaves many friends who will long remember him for his cheerful friendliness and because of the wonderful fight he made to live.

Rev. A. P. Keast conducted the services at Tidrick’s Funeral home Thursday afternoon, June 4th and the burial was in the Winterset cemetery.

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