Gossard, Grover Cleveland 1879-1937

GOSSARD

Posted By: Bruce Atkinson (email)
Date: 6/22/2018 at 18:34:56

HEART ATTACK PROVES FATAL

Obtaining a ride from neighbors, Saturday, Grover C. Gossard, 57, employed as a farm hand on the George Gabel farm in Johnson township, collapsed and fell dead just after clamoring into a wagon. He had been engaged all day at his usual occupations, and was walking from the home of John Puetz to the home of Milton Atkinson at the time, and was met on the road by George Gabel, Frank Bauerly and Milton Atkinson, who were driving in a wagon. Getting into the wagon, he fell over a few seconds later and was dead before medical help could be secured. When a physician arrived, he ascribed the death to cardiac heart trouble. Mr. Gossard had made his home with George Gabel near Merrill, for the past eighteen years.
Mr. Gossard was born December 26, 1879, at Middleburg, Penn. When a young man he came west and lived in Iowa City for several years. Later he lived in Seattle, Wash.; Harlowtown, Mont., and Bentley, N. D. He never married. His parents died when he was a small boy. He was a fine citizen and a good neighbor, very conscientious and painstaking in his work, and held in high esteem by all his acquaintances. He was reared in the Dunkard faith. Surviving him is a niece, Mrs. David Beeler, of West Branch, Iowa.
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Plymouth Presbyterian church, in Johnson township, conducted by Rev. W. E. Smith. Interment was in the Plymouth cemetery.

~Copyright © 1937; unknown paper (Plymouth County, Iowa) of ?? January 1937