Ashley Arthur Dudney (1925)
DUDNEY, JEWETT, MEASE, KIRK, FISHER, HANN, BURD
Posted By: Jan Rambow (email)
Date: 8/25/2006 at 09:16:24
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday July 23, 1925Ashley Arthur Dudney, son of Abraham and Mary Dudney, was born March 23, 1852 in Indiana and died July 12, 1925. When a small boy, he moved with his parents to Madison county, Iowa, where he spent the rest of his 73 years, 3 months and 19 days.
March 1, 1882 he was married to Ellen L. Jewett. To this union were born two daughters, Lilly Mease of Broken Bow, Neb., and Flossie Kirk of Dodge, N.D. His wife passed beyond Feb. 28 1910. On March 1, 1912 he was united in marriage to Perlina Fisher. Besides his wife and two daughters, he leaves six grandchildren: Richard Bruce, and Willis Eugene Mease: Donald, Dudney, Elmo and Shirley Joan Kirk and three brothers: Jack of Murray, Oliver of Hopeville and George of St. Marys, Kansas: and two sisters; Mrs. Jennie Hann of Winterset and Mrs. Nancy Burd of North Platte, Nebr. His mother, father, two sisters and one brother have preceded him.
Mr. Dudney lived on a farm until the last five years, when on account of failing health he left the farm on which he had resided for 28 years and moved to Winterset. Sunday evening while out driving with his wife and some old friends, he was stricken with heart failure and passed away suddenly.
He was a member of the M.E. church, for 40 years an Odd Fellow. He had been a Mason for 52 years, being a member of the Consistory, a Shriner, a Royal Arch Mason and an Eastern Star. He was a sincere Christian, a dutiful son, an affectionate brother and a good husband, a kind father and a true friend, and the world was better from his having lived in it.
Funeral services were conducted from the Methodist Church by his pastor, Rev. David Shenton Wednesday afternoon. Interment was at the Lorimor cemetery, where the Masons took charge of the services and gave their beautiful burial ceremony.
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