Joseph Toney (1955)

TONEY, GOODWIN, LAWSON, KANE

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 7/20/2007 at 15:07:20

Winterset Madisonian-Winterset, Iowa
October 5, 1955; p. 6

JOSEPH TONEY RITES HELD HERE THURSDAY

Funeral services for Joseph Toney of Winterset, were held last Thursday from the Winterset Christian church, conducted by the pastor, the Rev. Warren Hile. Burial was made in Montpelier cemetery near Patterson, with grave-side services by Green-Rogers post of the American Legion.

Mr. Toney was 29 years of age and had been a resident of Winterset since last January. He wa a native of Elkins, Ark., where he was born Dec. 5, 1925, a son of John and Agnes Toney. He attended school in that community and spent the greater part of his life there.

When he was 12 years of age he began assisting his father in electrical work and held his first job as an electrician in Arkansas City, Kan., when he was 17 years of age.

He served in the U.S. army for eight months, after which he was discharged because of a hip injury. (Served as a Pvt in U.S. Cavalry Recon Sq
World War II-notatation from gravestone) Since then he had been engaged in the electrical trade.

He was married Oct. 17, 1953 at Council Bluffs to Fern Goodwin. They moved to Winterset last January. He was a member of the American Legion and the Sportsmen's club here.

Mr. Toney's mother preceded him in death last July. He is survived by his wife; a son, Dennis; his father, John Toney; a brother, Lee Toney of Corcoran, Calif.; and two sisters, Mrs. Irene Lawson of Elkins, Ark., and Mrs. Ione Kane of Fayettsville, Ark.