RHODES, Mary Dursella King

RHODES, KING, MARTIN, KERN, ETHERIDGE, ESTES, KING, GARRISON, KELLY, YARGER, DAWSON, SIETZ, GRIFFITH, RENHART, KEMP, VINTON, MATHEWS, TERRY, BOYLE, HARRIS

Posted By: Jaydene Buhler (email)
Date: 1/29/2006 at 09:22:50

Mills County Tribune
February 6, 1941

Funeral Services for Mrs. Rhodes

Well known Former Resident of Pacific City Community passed Away in Council Bluffs Friday. Services Monday.

Funeral services for Mrs. Cal Rhodes were held in Raynor’s chapel in Glenwood Monday afternoon at two o’clock, with relatives and many old time friends and former neighbors in attendance.

Mary Dursella King was born in Boone county, Iowa, November 20 1864. She moved with her family to Kansas, where on June 24, 1879, when but a girl of fifteen, she was married to John Calvin Rhodes at Norton, Kansas. Soon after their marriage they moved to the Milton Martin farm in the Pacific City community west of Glenwood. It was here their ten children were born, two sons and one daughter dying in infancy, and one son, Elmer, passing away in 1936 in Englewood, California.

After fifty-two years of continuous residence on the same farm they retired in 1931, moving to Council Bluffs. It was there Mr. Rhodes passed away on August 14, 1938. She continued her residence in that city until the time of her death, which occurred January 31, she being 76 years of age at the time of her passing.

She is survived by three sons and three daughters, William of Pacific Junction, Moses of Sidney, James of Englewood, California, and Mabel Kern of Council Bluffs. Cecil Etheridge of Lomita, California and Lucille Estes of Council Bluffs, as well as twenty-three grandchildren, three great grandchildren and two brothers, Albert King of Norton, Kansas, Charles King of Council Bluffs, and four sisters, Mrs. Stella Garrison and Mrs. Maude Kelly of Los Angeles, California, Mrs. Cora Yarger of Chicago, Illinois, and Mrs. Ida Dawson of Council Bluffs.

Reverend Ferdinand Sietz of Council Bluffs, longtime family friend, had charge of the service. Music for the service was furnished by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Griffith of Council Bluffs and Mrs. David Renhart, also of Council Bluffs, at the piano. Those in charge of the floral offering were Mrs. Anna Kemp, Mrs. Ernest Vinton and Mrs. Etta Mathews. Pall bearers were Gene Vinton, Ernest Vinton, Alvin Terry, Louis Boyle, Frank Boyle, and Frank Harris.

The body was laid to rest in the family lot in the Glenwood cemetery.