Humes, Ethel Mae 1889-1987

HUMES, SHINE, HINEGARDNER, PROVIN, GIRTON, NEWTON

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The Grinnell Herald-Register (Grinnell, Iowa) Nov. 5, 1987

ETHEL HUMES SERVICES HELD

Ethel Mae Humes, 98, of Guernsey, a former Malcom resident, died Sunday, Nov. 1, at Grinnell General Hospital.

Funeral services were conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Nevenhoven Funeral Home in Brooklyn, with the Rev. Jim Schutter of the Guernsey Methodist Church officiating. Organist was Sybil Kelley.

Pallbearers were Jim Schneekloth, Sonny Schneekloth, Marvin Cummings, Walter Puls, Roger Griffith and Donald Griffith. Honorary bearers were Michael Provin, Randy Provin, Danny Provin, Rodney Provin, Jerry Newton and James Blue.

Burial was in Ivy Hill Cemetery, Malcom.

The daughter of John and Tillie Shine Hinegardner, she was born on May 10, 1889, in Malcom. She attended school in the Malcom area. She was married to James Humes on March 10, 1907, in Marengo.

Mrs. Humes was a former employee of the Maytag Co. She lived most of her life in Malcom until the death of her husband in 1965. She then lived with her daughter, Louise Provin in Guernsey.

Surviving are three daughters, Lois Girton of Huntington Beach, Calif., Mary Newton of Brooklyn and Louise Provin of Guernsey; 11 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; and six great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, two sons, five brothers, three sisters and one grandson.