John Alvin Roach (1942)
DIPPOLD, LIVERMORE, MCALLISTER, ROACH, STIFEL, TILTON
Posted By: Judy Wight Branson
Date: 4/25/2008 at 17:19:44
Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa
Thursday September 17, 1942John A. Roach, 79, died Tuesday at his home two miles west of Cumming, Iowa. He had lived on the same Madison county farm, one which his father obtained by deed from the government, since he was 17 years old.
Mr. Roach is survived by his wife; two sons, Charles A. of Des Moines and John A. Jr., of Cumming, and three daughters, Mrs Alice A. McAllister and Mrs. Edith A. Dippold, both of Booneville, Iowa and Mrs. Gladys E. Stifel of Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
Transcribers Note: They lived in Lee Township, Madison County, west of the Warren County line.
_________________________The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, September 24, 1942
Page 4, Column 3JNO. ROACH DIES AT HIS FARMHOME
Last Rites Held Friday In Cumming. Wife and Five Children Survive
John A. Roach, long time resident of Madison County, died at his farmhome to miles west of coming last Tuesday, following an extended illness. He was 79 years of age.
Funeral rites were conducted at coming Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock with the Rev. Prebb officiating. Interment was made in the Orilla cemetery.
John Alvin Roach was born in Trenton, Henry County, Iowa, January 18, 1863, the son of Charles and Amelia Henry Roach. When a small boy he went with his parents to Des Moines where they made their home for several years. He attended the Forest Home School and in his youth became a member of the Lutheran church.
When he was 16 years of age he came to Madison county with his parents and they made their home on a farm near coming, obtained by a deed from the government by his father, which has since been his home.
For many years he was an active member of the yeoman and Redman lodges. He was always alert to the best interests of his home community and of his country. Of recent years he has been unable to carry on the work most interesting to him because of ill health.
He was married to Eldora Ellen Tilton on March 18, 1886, and they were the parents of nine children. Three sons, Walter, Harry, Carl and one daughter, Mable Livermore, have preceded their father in death.
He is survived by his wife, two sons, Charles and John, Jr., and three daughters, Alice McAllister, Edith Dippold and Gladys Stifal, as well as 19 grandchildren and four great grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends.
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