Kate (Moak) Mattox (1941)
JAMES, MATTOX, MCILREE, MOAK, WORTHING
Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:03:18
The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, January 30, 1941
Page 4, Column 3Obituaries – Mrs. Lee Mattox
Kate Moak was born in Newcastle, Pennsylvania, on August 10, 1855, the daughter of William and Mary Moak. During the Civil War, she with her family, moved to Missouri, coming by steamboat on the Ohio and the Mississippi. At the age of fourteen she came to Iowa making her home in the Ebenezer neighborhood near Peru.
On August 9, 1877 she was married to Lee Mattox in the Buffalo community south of Winterset. Mrs. Mattox lived in and near Winterset for almost fifty years till in 1920 she and her husband moved to Omaha, Nebraska. She died in that city on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 1941 at the age of 85 years, 5 months and 11 days.
When a young girl Mrs. Mattox converted and united with the Methodist church at Ebenezer. Her last visit to Winterset, which she always cherished as her old home, was made in 1939.
There remain to mourn her passing, her husband, Lee Mattox; a daughter, Mrs. Pearl McIlree of Omaha; nephew, Tom James, Gunn City, Mo.; a cousin, Mrs. Belle Worthing of Peru; her descendants include four grandchildren,eight great-grandchildren and one great great-grandchild. One son and a daughter preceded her in death.
Funeral services were held at the Kunold mortuary in Omaha on Jan. 25, with burial in Forest Lawn cemetery. Old Winterset friends who attended the funeral included Mrs. Jay Jacobs now of Boone, Mrs. O. B. Van Hosen and Mrs. Tom Clopton and Paul Barrus of Des Moines.
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