Morgan, Altha (Mrs. Frank E.) - 1867-1929

MORGAN, GARRETT

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Date: 2/21/2015 at 13:58:49

Hawarden Independent, July 4, 1929

Mrs. Frank E. Morgan, for more than forty years a resident of this community, died at her home in this city at 5 o'clock Wednesday morning, following a lingering illness from cancer. She had been in failing health for about five years and had been bedfast since about the first of June. She grew steadily weaker day by day so that the end was not unexpected.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Methodist church in this city and will be in charge of the pastor, Rev. Robt. H. Forrester. Interment will be made in the cemetery at Ireton.

Altha M. Garrett was born in Green County, Wis., Sept. 19, 1867 and died at her home in Hawarden, July 3, 1929, at the age of 61 years, 9 months and 14 days. She came to Sioux county with her parents in early childhood and they located on a farm a mile west of Ireton where she grew to young womanhood. On Aug. 18, 1887, she was united in marriage with Frank E. Morgan and shortly after their marriage they moved to Hawarden and with the exception of two or three brief periods her home has ever since been in this city. Early in life she united with the Methodist church and remained steadfast in that faith. She was also long a member of the Rebekah lodge and the Women's Relief Corps. and took a very active part in the work of those organizations. She was devoted to her home and family and the welfare of her husband and children was ever uppermost in her life.

Besides her husband, she leaves two daughters and one son; Mrs. Olive McAninch of Sioux City; Mrs. Emmett Heumphreus of Akron and Richard F. Morgan of Hawarden. She is also survived by three brothers and two sisters; L. L. Garrett of Colorado Springs, CO; Dan Garrett of Humboldt, S.D.; Frank Garrett of Hawarden; Mrs. Mike Dolan of Silverton, OR, and Mrs. Vina Wheeler of Hawarden.