Marion Boone Coltrane (1916)
COLTRANE, CONINE, JOHNSTON
Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:04:33
The Independent
Macksburg, Iowa
Wednesday, August 24, 1916
Page 1, Column 6DR. COLTRANE Goes to the Great Beyond.
Early Morning August 25, 1916.
Friday morning about six o’clock Dr. Coltrane crossed the great divide. He has been a patient sufferer for many weeks, never fully recovering from the operation through which he passed early this spring.
Beside his wife and son Earl, three brothers Alva, Alan and S. C. and one sister Mrs. Lydia Johnson were with him when the end came.
The funeral services will be held at the M. E. church Saturday 10 o’clock. Interment in Glendale Cemetery, at Des Moines. The Dr. leaves a host of friends to mourn his demise.
________________________The Independent
Macksburg, Iowa
Thursday, August 31, 1916
Page 1, Column 3OBITUARY
Marion Boone Coltrane was born in Van Buren county, Iowa, October 14th, 1857 and died at his house in Macksburg, Iowa, August 25th, 1916 at the age of 58 years, 10 months and 11 days.
He was married to Lina D. Connie January 2d, 1881 at Hopeville, Iowa, and to this union two children were given, Cammie Maud who died eight years ago next March, and Rev. Earl Coltrane, present M. E. Pastor at Neola, Iowa.
He was converted at the age of 21 and joined the Christian church at St. Charles but later becoming a member of the Methodist church of this place.
He has been a successful physician for about 28 years, serving at Afton and other places. They moved to Macksburg about four years ago and he has in that time in the medical assistant and sympathizer and a host of homes of Macksburg and community.
He leaves to mourn his loss a faithful wife who has stood by his bedside in the past five months in a way that is only possible with the sacred love of wife and the mother of children. Also his son Earl to whom he was not only a loving father but a close companion.
Along with these are several brothers and one sister and a host of devoted and true friends. And many who to his careful and skilled attention during periods of illness owe their life. “He saved others, himself he could not save.”
________________________The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, August 30, 1916
Page 8, Column 2NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS – ST. CHARLES
Dr. Coltrane of Macksburg, was well known here passed away last Friday at his home in Macksburg. Dr. Coltrane was a brother of Mrs. J. F. Johnston of this place. His remains were taken to Des Moines last Saturday and laid to rest by the side of his daughter.
Mr. Coltrane was operated upon some time during the summer but he gradually grew worse until last Friday with the above result.
________________________Transcriber's notes: The sister named "Lydia Johnson" in the first obituary is, per census and marriage records, "Louisa Johnston". His wife's maiden name per their marriage record is "Conine".
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