SUMMERS, Ross. H.

SUMMERS, BLACKMAN, COSTELLO, ELLISON, NIMS, BOWER, SWAIN, BENTON, WATTS, EDMONDS, FAUNEN, MCINTOSH, EFNOR, BOVEY, RAIDT, LAFOLLETO, WICKER, NEWTON, STORM, ARTELL, PALMER

Posted By: Lois Shaul-volunteer (email)
Date: 3/31/2014 at 16:14:12

Malvern Leader Jan.5, 1950

Summers Rites Held Friday
Had Spent Most of His Life on a Farm Southeast of Malvern

Final services for Ross b. Summers were held last Friday at 2 o'clock from the Mansfield Funeral Home with the Rev. Nobel B. Blackman officiating.
A Mills county resident most of his life, he died Dec. 28 after a lingering illness.
Music for the services was furnished by Mrs. Charles D. Costello accompanied by Mrs. J.E. Ellison at the piano. Members of the floral committee were Mrs. Dale Nims, Mrs. Ralph Bower and Mrs. Hazel Summers. Pall bearers were Norvian Summers, Paul Swain, Tom Benton, Jamie Summers, Dale Nims and Eugene Watts. Burial was in the Malvern cemetery.

People From a Distance Attend Summer Funeral
Ernest Edmonds and Mrs. Will Edmonds, Savonburg, Kan.; Mr. and Mrs. George Faunen, Walnut Kans.; Elmer McIntosh, Hepler, Kans.; Ernest McIntosh and Chalmers Efnor, Boudurant, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bovey, Pilot Mount, Ia.; Mrs. Byron Raidt, Shenandoah.
Mr. an Mrs. Amy LaFolletto, Red, Oak; Mr.and Mrs.Dale Nims, Tabor; Eugene Watts and Kenneth Swain, Omaha; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Swain and daughter, Grand Junction, Ia.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Benton, Mr. James Summers from Glenwood; Mrs. Felix Summers, Milwaukee, Wisc. and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wicker of Griswold, Ia.
Ross B. Summers, son of James Newton and Ellen Summers was born on a farm near Malvern, Jan. 13, 1876.
His young manhood was spent farming and stock raising on his farm southeast of Malvern.
He was united in marriage with Edith Estella McIntosh at Iola, Kan. Feb. 14, 1910. She preceded him in death April 9, 1949.To this union three children were born, one son, Norvan E. Summers and two daughters, Anna Ellen and Ruth Irene. Robert Storm was taken in to the home and raised as one of his own children.
His first years of married life were spent near Uniontown, Kan. then four years in Colorado and his last years were spent on the Laura Summers farm southeast of Malvern.
He passed away Dec. 29, 1949 after about six months of illness.
He was a loyal and devoted father and husband. He was very kind and patient in caring for his invalid wife for 20 years.
He is survived by his son, Norvan E. Summers of Malvern, two daughters, Anna Ellen Swain of Grand Junction, and Ruth Irene Bovey Of San Bernadino, Cal. and his foster son Robert Storm of Malvern, also two sisters, Laura Summers of Malvern and Eunice Artell of Portland, Ore.; one half sister Lillian Palmer of Plainview, Nebr. and one brother, Strayer Summers of Strahan and five grandchildren and many friends.