Moninger, Minnie 1866-1928

MONINGER, KELLOGG, GILL

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 6/18/2012 at 09:29:52

The Grinnell (IA) Herald; April 23, 1928

MINNIE KELLOGG MONINGER DIES

It was with sincere regret that her large circle of Grinnell friends read in the Herald one week ago of the quite sudden death of Mrs. W.R. Moninger at the Methodist hospital in Des Moines following a serious operation.

Mrs. Moninger was a Grinnell girl, bright, handsome, and happy, whose joyousness always brought sunshine wherever she was. She graduated from the high school and from college here and soon afterwards she was united in marriage with W.R. Moninger, also a Grinnell college graduate who survives. No better couple ever contributed joy and comfort to a family circle and her loss is a real one, not only to her own circle but to the larger circle who knew and loved her. The following tribute is from the pen of her pastor:

Mary Kellogg Moninger was born Feb. 21, 1866. Passed away March 27, 1928. Age 62 years, 1 month and 7 days.

In the death of Mrs. Moninger her immediate home circle has been broken for the first time.

Surviving her are, her husband, four daughters and a son. The daughters are: Margaret, for several years a missionary of the Presbyterian Church, stationed at Hainan, China, but now home on a furlough and teaching Latin in the High School at Washington, Iowa; Dorothy, now Mrs. Gorda J. Gill of Strawberry Point and her three children, Rosalee Jean, Margaret Joan and Dorothy Ellen; Helen, supervisor of the obstetrical ward in the Methodist Hospital of Des Moines where her mother died, and Louise, a teacher in the rural schools of Marshall County. The son, John Moninger, is a junior in Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Mrs. Moninger is also survived by one brother, R.H. Kellogg. A sister, Miss Harriette Kellogg died in Marshalltown in 1916.

Mrs. Moninger was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond M. Kellogg, pioneers of Grinnell. She was reared to womanhood in her native town and was graduated from high school there in 1882 and from Iowa College in 1886 and taught in the Public Schools of Shenandoah, Iowa.

While in college she met Mr. W.R. Moninger, who was a member of her class and they were married in Grinnell, Ia., Dec. 27, 1887.

Directly after their marriage they cqme to the D.M. Moninger home place at Galvin where they lived until 1892, when they took possession of their present farm just north of the Hartland church in Marshall county where they have lived ever since.