Yount, Grace Florence 1880-1970

YOUNT, CRULL, HAMMEN, KRIEGEL

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 1/26/2014 at 15:04:03

The Brooklyn (IA) Chronicle
Sept. 23, 1970

RITES HELD FOR MRS. GRACE YOUNT

Grace Florence Yount, daughter of the Rev. Lewis A. and Mary Crull, was born Nov. 22, 1880 in Scioto county, Ohio and died at her home in Olympia, Wash. Sept. 23, 1970, at the age of 89 years, 10 mos. As a child she lived in Kansas and Oklahoma but when a young girl she moved with her parents to Iowa.

While teaching in the Hartwick school she met Allen L. Yount, to whom she was married on Feb. 23, 1908. To this union were born six children, five of whom survive. The family farmed near Hartwick until 1920 at which time they moved to Brooklyn where Mr. Yount was a rural mail carrier. Following his death in 1936 she continued to make her home in Brooklyn.

She was a lifelong member of the Methodist church and for many years taught the Miriam Sunday school class until her move to Olympia in 1951.

She is survived by three sons and two daughters, Fred A. Yount of Brooklyn, Mrs. P.H. (Ruth) Hammen of Des Moines, Mrs. Floyd J. (Edith) Kriegel and Claude A. Yount of Olympia, Wash. and Lewis C. Yount of Bellevue, Wash., 13 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. She is also survived by two sisters, two nieces and a number of nephews.

Memorial services were held in the chapel of the First United Methodist church in Olympia Sept. 25 followed by cremation. Graveside committal rites were held at the I.O.O.F. cemetery in Brooklyn on Oct. 3 in charge of the Rev. Lester C. Hall of Montezuma, a friend of the family, assisted by Rev. J. Arthur Eveland of Brooklyn and Mrs. Yount's grandson, Rev. Donald Hammen of Kansas City.

Among those from out of town attending the memorial service for Mrs. Yount were Mr. and Mrs. Duane Yount and family from Lawton, Okla.; Mr. and Mrs. Phil Yount and family from Grinnell; Mr. and Mrs. P.H. Hammen and Mrs. Marie Young from Des Moines; Mrs. Claude Yount from Olympia, Wash.; Rev. Donald Hammen from Kansas City; Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bobzin from Kellogg; Mr. and Mrs. Clive Mohr from Deep River; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Miller from Searsboro; Mrs. Alice Goodlow, Mrs. Ralph Peters, Orville Spain and William Shadley from Montezuma; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Lambert from Hartwick; Mrs. Cecil Schrader from Victor; Mr. and Mrs. Dean Cranston from Williamsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Fulmer from California.