McKINLEY, Josephine (Myerly) 1897-1961

MCKINLEY, BRYANT, MYERLY

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 9/17/2010 at 13:23:57

Birth: Feb. 8, 1897
Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa

Death: Jun. 21, 1961
Saint Ansgar, Mitchell County, Iowa

#1:

Mrs. Harold L. McKinley, 63, died Wednesday at the Mitchell County Memorial Hospital. She was taken there Tuesday night following a heart attack.

Funeral services will be Saturday at 2 p,m, at the Schroeder & Houg Funeral Home with the Reverend Lloyd Brockmeyer officiating. The body will be at the McKinley home Friday from 7 to 9 p.m.

Surviving are her husband, four sons, Philip, Hal and Donald, St. Ansgar; Keith, Osage; 12 grandchildren and a brother, James Myerly, Ortonville, Minnesota.

[Mason City Globe-Gazette, Thursday, June 22, 1962]

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#2:

Josephine McKinley was the daughter of Joseph L. and Virginia Bryant Myerly. Born in Des Moines [February 8, 1897], she attended schools there and Iowa State College. The Myerly family had come to Pennsylvania from Germany in the early 1800s and moved west to Des Moines where Joseph I. was born in 1856.

Virginia Bryant was born in Edina, Missouri, in 1859, daughter of William J. and Mary Caldwell Bryant, both of English ancestry. Joseph I. Myerly was a lawyer and postmaster of Des Moines. He owned a home on Lake Okoboji and also the old Manhattan Beach Hotel. Josephine remembered watching Fred Astair and his sister practicing their dance steps at the hotel. Both Virginia and Joseph died in Spirit Lake in 1939.

Josephine Myerly and Harold L. McKinley were married in Spirit Lake, Iowa, in 1918. After Harold's discharge from the Army, he and Josephine returned to the family farm along the Cedar River. They lived in the old L.G. McKinley home on the hill, now torn down, west of the Cedar River. In 1937 a new brick home was built on the east side of the river.

Harold and Josephine had four sons: Philip, Donald, Hal, and Keith; fourteen grandchildren and, at present, eighteen great-grandchildren (1988).

Josephine died June 21, 1961. Burial at St. Ansgar Cemetery.

[Adapted from H.L. McKinley Story by Marjean McKinley, in MITCHELL COUNTY HISTORY, 1989]

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