WIMBER, Vinas c1897-1949

WIMBER, SWAFFORD

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 1/11/2013 at 21:37:16

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OSAGE MAN DIED
MONDAY NIGHT
AFTER LONG ILLNESS

Funeral services are incomplete for Vinus Wimber, 51, who died Monday night at the Boyd W. Myers home seven miles east and 1 1/4 miles south of Osage. Mr. Wimber had been employed by Mr. Myers intermittently the past 18 years. He had been ill about six weeks. Rites are pending arrival of his brother from Chicago, who planned to arrive today.

Mr. Wimber was born in Kirksville, Missouri, and came to Iowa when a boy. He was married in 1937.

Surviving are his wife, in a sanitarium at Little Rock, Arkansas; three children, all of Greenwood, Arkansas; a brother of Chicago and a sister of Gary, Indiana.

Mitchell County Press-News, May 19, 1949
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Vinas Wimber – July 4, 1898 – May 16, 1949

Arkansas Marriage:
Name: Elsie Swafford
Gender: Female
Age: 27
Birth Year: abt 1913
Residence: Greenwood, Sebastian, Arkansas
Spouse's Name: Vinas Wimber
Spouse's Gender: Male
Spouse's Age: 43
Spouse's Residence: Gold Field, Humbolt, Iowa
Marriage Date: 7 Sep 1940
Marriage License Date: 6 Sep 1940
Marriage County: Sebastian
Event Type: Marriage
FHL Film Number: 2134420
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Social Security Death Index:
Name: Vinas Wimber
SSN:
Born: 4 Jul 1898
Died: May 1949
State (Year) SSN issued: Iowa (Before 1951)
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NOTE: His tombstone has 1899 for his birth year but his WWI Registration and his social security death index both have 1898.

Burial was in the Osage Cemetery, Osage, Mitchell, Iowa.

(Credit: DM Scott)