MCFARLAND, John Robert 1881-1980

MCFARLAND, EADS, STEWARD, HOUDEK, YOUNG, GROSSNICKEL

Posted By: Diane M Scott (email)
Date: 3/16/2013 at 16:46:34

John Robert McFarland – October 12, 1881 – December 31, 1980

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FORMER OSAGE MAN DIED; RITES HERE

Funeral rites were held Saturday for John McFarland, 99, a former resident of the Osage area, who died December 31, 1980, at a nursing home in Cedar Falls. Rev. G. Hope, pastor of the Baptist Church, was in charge of the rites at the Champion Funeral Home, and burial was in the Osage Cemetery.

John McFarland was born in Nebraska on October 12, 1881, the son of George Washington and Mary Elizabeth Eads McFarland, one of 12 children in the family. He engaged in farming west of Osage until moving to Missouri in 1932.

Surviving are two daughters, Nadine Steward of Dubuque and Elizabeth Houdek of Waterloo; two sons, Corbie McFarland of Austin and Noble McFarland of Exeland, Wisconsin; many grandchildren and great-grandchildren, nephews and nieces.

Preceding him in death were one son, Gar, his parents and 11 brothers and sisters.

Mitchell County Press - Jan. 7, 1981

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1930 US Census: Rock, Mitchell, Iowa
Robert McFarland 48 born abt 1881 Nebraska, divorced
Mary McFarland 71, mother, widow (mother Mary Elizabeth Eads)
Corbie McFarland, son 14 born Minnesota
Elizabeth McFarland 13 born Minnesota
Noble A McFarland 11 born Minnesota
Clarence E McFarland, brother born abt 1889 Nebraska
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1920 US Census: Bartlett, Todd, Minnesota

Robert McFarland 38 born Nebraska
Amy, wife 25 born abt 1895 Illinois
Gar 7 born abt 1913 Minnesota
Adena 5 born abt 1915 Minnesota
Cordie 4 born abt 1916 Minnesota
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John Robert McFarland married Amy Viola VanDeventer, the daughter of Amasa Romanzo VanDeventer and Matilda (Young) VanDeventer.

They were divorced and she remarried to Edward Grossnickel.

Amy was born August 11, 1894 in Iowa and died May 22, 1960 in Hubbard County, Minnesota

John Robert McFarland and his son Gar Robert McFarland were buried in the Osage Cemetery, Mitchell County, Iowa