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George C. Diggs

DIGGS, COOPER, DANIELS, KOBYLASZ, BUTLEY

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 8/11/2006 at 15:30:28

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
November 16, 1955

GEORGE C. DIGGS Died Saturday

George C. Diggs, a long-time resident of Madison County, died Saturday, Nov. 12, 1955, at Wyoming, where he had been living in recent years. He was 83 years of age, and had been ill about three months.

Mr. Diggs was a native of Indianola, where he was born Feb. 26, 1872, a son of James and Jane Cooper Diggs. He came to Madison county as a child, and spent most of his active life here in farming.

He was married at Winterset, Sept. 2, 1893, to Eliza Ann Daniels, who preceded him in death. One son, Earl, also preceded him in death.

He is survived by a son, Elmer Diggs of Wyoming, Ia.; a daughter, Mrs. Jennie Kobylasz of Des Moines; a sister, Mrs. Alt Butley of Spencer; and two brothers, William of Winterset and Robert of Earlham.

Funeral services were held Tuesday from the Richards Funeral home here, conducted by the Rev. Warren Hile, pastor of the Winterset Christian church. Burial was made in Union Chapel cemetery (South).


 

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