NEFF, Grace K. 1906 – 1948

NEFF

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler, Volunteer (email)
Date: 4/26/2013 at 12:45:12

Grace K. Neff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Neff, died at the Sartori Memorial Hospital at Cedar Falls Wednesday evening, July 21. Her death followed a long illness.

She had been a patient at the hospital for about six weeks. She had resided for several years at 618 West 12th street at Cedar Falls, known as “Pine Knoll”, which she owned jointly with Evalyn J. Mullins. For the past nine years she had been order librarian at Iowa State Teachers college.

Miss Neff was born February 7, 1906, at Brooklyn. She graduated from Brooklyn high school in 1923 and went to the University of Iowa, where she received the B.A. degree in 1929. She was awarded the Lydia Roberts fellowship for one year to Columbia university library school, New York City, where she received a B.S. degree in 1931.

She became assistant cataloguer at Iowa State Teachers college the same year, in which position she continued until 1934, when she resigned to accept the position of librarian at the Cedar Falls public library. She held this position until 1934, when she returned to the college in the position of order librarian.

She was a member of the Methodist church of Brooklyn. As a member of the Phi Mu sorority, she had served on basic skills and adult education committees in 1944-45. She had long been a member of FV chapter of the PEO Sisterhood in Cedar Falls.

In addition to her parents she is survived by a sister, Edith Neff, of Birmingham, Ala., who had been with her for several weeks, and a brother, Robert L. Neff, of Muskegon, Mich. She was preceded in death by two brothers, George, eight years old, and Howard, a World War II casualty.

Funeral services were held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, July 23, at the Dahl funeral home in Cedar Falls with Dr. Vernon P. Bodein officiating. Graveside rites were held the same day at 4:30 p.m. at the I.O.O.F. cemetery in Brooklyn with the Rev. Clarence E. Thiele and the Rev. E. W. F. Holler officiating. Pallbearers included Clem DeMeulenaere, Forest Hicks, Floyd McAllister, E. L. Montgomery, John Goff and Harley Burch.

Source: Unknown newspaper clipping found in scrapbook belonging to my great grandmother, Edith (Kann) Newton.