Luther Fox (1950)

FOX, WILSON, MCCLOSKEY, PEAK, DEBOER

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Winterset Madisonian - November 19, 1950
Winterset, Iowa

LUTHER FOX DIES AT ST. CHARLES

Former Winterset Business Man Was 87 Years of Age

Luther Fox, formerly a prominent Winterset business man and civic leader, died last Friday, April 14 at the home of his daughter Mrs. Ralph Peak of St. Charles. He was 87 years old.

Mr. Fox operated a general store at Webster as a young man, in partnership with his brothers, Simeon and John Fox. He moved to Winterset in 1894 and purchased a grocery store on the northeast corner of the square, in the present Virgil Smith building. He operated that store continuously until about 1925.

During this period he was active in civic and business affairs here. He served on the school board and the city council, and was president of the Winterset Savings bank for several years. He was affiliated with the Masonic order.

Mr. Fox was a native of New Jersey, where he was born July 3, 1862. As a small boy he came with his parents to Iowa, and they settled on a farm near Webster.

He was married in 1891 to Flora K. Wilson of Afton. They were the parents of two daughters, Georgia and Alberta. The wife died in 1898. His second marriage occurred in 1899 to Lenore McCloskey of St. Charles. They were the parents of one son, Herbert.

Surviving are his wife and the three children, Mrs. Ralph Peak of St. Charles, Mrs. Ralph DeBoer of Denver, and Herbert Fox of Des Moines. He also leaves five grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

Funeral services were held this Wednesday from the Richards funeral home, in charge of the Rev. Glenn Parrott, pastor of the Winterset Methodist church. Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.