Cross, Joseph Oliver 1861-1934

CROSS, COULTER

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg (email)
Date: 5/30/2016 at 09:54:59

Hawarden Independent January 11, 1934

DEATH CLAIM JOSEPH CROSS PASSED AWAY EARLY SATURDAY MORNING FROM PNEUMONIA
Was Nearly 73 Years Old and Lived Here for 25 Years.—-Leaves Two Sisters and One Brother

Joseph 0. Cross, a resident of this city and community for the past twenty- five years, died at the Hawarden hospital at 6:30 Saturday morning following a brief illness from pneumonia. Mr. Cross suffered a severe attack of influenza during the past fall and was confined to the house for several weeks at that time. He had apparently fully recovered from this illness, however, and for the past couple of months has been out and around and down town almost every day. He was again taken ill on Wednesday morning of last week and on Friday afternoon was removed to the hospital where death claimed him the following morning.

Funeral services were held at the Barnard Funeral Home at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Robt. Forrester, pastor of the Methodist church, and interment was made in Grace Hill cemetery.

Joseph Oliver Cross was born in Sullivan, Canada, Feb. 7, 1861, and died Jan. 6, 1934, so lacked only about a month of attaining the age of 73 years. He was the son of Mark and Mary Jane Coulter Cross. He grew up on a farm in Canada and lived there until about twenty-five years ago when he came to Hawarden to make his home with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Coulter. After Mr. Coulter's death he continued to reside here, sharing the home of his aunt and assisting her in the management of her farm property. He enjoyed doing practical repair carpenter work about the farm house, kept constantly busy at some task or other and kept he home premises always in spic and span order. He was a practical woodsman and enjoyed working up trees into firewood and always cultivated a large garden. Mr. Cross possessed a fund of droll humor and was a real friend to those who enjoyed his confidence. During his youth and before coming to Hawarden he was an attendant of the Methodist church and Sunday School. He never married. A couple of years ago he purchased the old home farm in Canada and planned some day to return there.

He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. J. J. McMullen and Mrs. W. G. Jones of Tara, Canada, and one brother, Robert Cross, of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, who with his aunt, Mrs. Coulter, have the sympathy of all in their bereavement.