Hannah Amelia Lynch (1951)

LYNCH, OWENS, NEIDT, SLOCUM

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Winterset Madisonian - May 2, 1951
Winterset, Iowa

HANNAH LYNCH DIED LAST FRIDAY

Death Occurs at Home of Daughter, Mrs. Charles Neidt

Mrs. Hannah Lynch, resident of Truro and Winterset communities for many years, died Friday, April 27, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Neidt of Winterset. She was 95 years of age.

Mrs. Lynch had been a resident of Iowa since 1871. She was a native of Ohio, where she was born near Jackson on Feb. 26, 1856. She was the former Hannah Amelia Owens, daughter of Hugh and Eliza Owens.

In 1870, the family moved to Illinois, and a year later to Iowa. The family lived at Carlisle and Des Moines before she was married in 1880, to C. J. Lynch, who was engaged in the grocery business in East Des Moines. They were the parents of five daughters, three of whom preceded the mother in death. Mr. Lynch died in 1925.

Mrs. Lynch had been confined to her bed by a lingering illness for the past four years.

She was active in church work, and during her life in Madison county, her membership was in the Truro Methodist church, and later in the Winterset Methodist church.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Neidt and Mrs. John B. Slocum of Puente, Calif., six grandchildren, nine great grandchildren, and two brothers, E. A. and H. L. Owens, both of Carlisle.

Funeral services were held Monday from the Winterset Methodist church in charge of the pastor, the Rev. Glenn Parrott, and the Rev. Tom Foglesong of Des Moines. Burial was made in the Woodland cemetery in Des Moines.