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Marvie Ellen Smith Kephart (1948)

KEPHART, SMITH, DIGGS, MCKINNEY, CHAPMAN, CRAWFORD, SNELL, LEMON, KOEHLER

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 2/13/2007 at 10:36:15

Winterset Madisonian - May 26, 1948
Winterset, Iowa

MRS. T. J. KEPHART DIED ON WEDNESDAY

Resident of Peru Vicinity Most of Life Was 65 Years of Age

Mrs. T. J. Kephart, a life-long resident of Madison county, died at her home in Winterset this Wednesday, May 26, after a brief illness. She was 65 years of age.

Mrs. Kephart, who was the former Marvie Ellen Smith, had spent most of her life in the vicinity of Peru, but had lived in Winterset the last four years, following the death of her husband.

She leaves 12 children. They are: Thomas Kephart of Murray, Anderson Kephart of Earlham, Forrest Kephart of Newton, Alvin and Jim Kephart of Winterset, Mrs. Mabel Diggs of Afton, Mrs. Sadie McKinney of Newton, Mrs. Mary Chapman of Winterset, Mrs. Mildred Crawford of Conception Junction, Mo., Mrs. Hazel Snell of Greenfield, and Edna Kephart at home. She also leaves a sister, Mrs. Charley Koehler of Des Moines; and three brothers, Jess, Preston and Tony Smith, all of Des Moines.

Funeral arrangements had been set tentatively for this Friday afternoon. Burial will be made in the Peru cemetery.


 

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