Elowene Irene (Duff) Cannon (1999)

CANNON, MARSHALL, DUFF, FARWELL, GARNER

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 6/27/2007 at 19:18:50

Winterset Madisonian-Winterset, Iowa
November 17, 1999

Elowene I. Cannon, Mt. Ayr

Elowene Irene Cannon, 80, died Nov. 13, 1999 in Mt. Ayr. Funeral services were held Tuesday, Nov. 16 at the First Christian Church in Mt. Ayr with the Rev. John Brillo officiating. Burial was at Rose Hill Cemetery in Mt. Ayr.

Elowene Cannon was born May 7, 1919 to Calvin and Cora Ellen (Marshall) Duff of Guthrie Center. She graduated from Zion High School in 1938. After graduation, she worked as a child care provider in Winterset. She married Bernard Dale Cannon in 1940. They lived in Bedford from 1940 until they moved to Mt. Ayr in 1944. Elowene retired from Contel after 16 and one-half years as a phone operator. She was a member of the Rebekah Lodge, American Legion Auxiliary and the Ringgold County Hospital Auxiliary.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, five brothers and two sisters.

She is survived by two sons, Rodger (wife Jan) of Mt. Ayr and Rollie of Ada, Okla.; one sister, Leone Farwell of Winterset; five sisters-in-law, Mildred Cannon, of Bridgewater, Mick Garner and Mildred Cannon, both of Mt. Ayr, and Isabel Duff and Helen Duff, both of Winterset; four grandchildren; four great grandchildren; and five step great-grandchildren.