Duffus, Fred B. 1888-1969

DUFFUS, ANDES, FERNEAU, HORNBECK, FOSTER, BARNES, VAN FOSSEN

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 9/25/2014 at 09:09:11

The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register
Monday, June 9, 1969

SERVICES TUESDAY
FOR FRED DUFFUS

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Smith Funeral Home for Fred B. Duffus, 89, of 1410 Third Ave., Grinnell, who died suddenly Saturday afternoon of an apparent heart condition.

The Rev. Myron Harris, pastor of the Northside Friends church, will officiate at the services. Organist will be Mrs. Leonard Pearce.

Pallbearers will be Keith L. Gregory, Robert Henderson, Gerald Phipps, Marshall Pierce, Ernest W. Renaud and S.W. Inman.

Burial will be in Ivy Hill Cemetery at Malcom. Friends may call at the Smith Funeral Home.

The son of William and Sarah Margaret Andes Duffus, Mr. Duffus was born Aug. 1, 1888, near Malcom.

On Jan. 12, 1916, he married Myrtle Ferneau at Montezuma. To this union were born four children, three of whom survive.

Mr. Duffus farmed for a number of years near Montezuma and Malcom until his wife's death in 1930. He continued to work on farms until 1937 when he came to Grinnell to make his home and was employed by Grinnell College in the food service department.

On Dec. 29, 1948, he married Helen Hornbeck in Grinnell, who survives at home.

Survivors include his wife; three children - Mrs. Alvin (Hazel) Foster of Brooklyn, Harold Duffus of Kellogg and Harry Duffus of Brooklyn; seven grandchildren; six great grandchildren; and two sisters - Mrs. Ida Barnes of Malcom and Mrs. Orie (Mae) Van Fossen of Marshalltown.

Mr. Duffus was preceded in death by his first wife and one son in infancy.