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Dale, Lois (Mrs. John W.) 1862-1943

DALE, TALBOTT

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 4/28/2017 at 08:05:44

Hawarden Independent Oct 28, 1943

DEATH COMES TO MRS. LOIS DALE
Mrs. Lois Dale, a long time resident of Ireton and Hawarden, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Grace Ahmann, in this city about 9 o'clock Monday evening. Mrs. Dale had been in frail health for a long time, but was bedfast only two weeks preceding her death, which was due to her advanced age. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the Methodist church at Ireton, with Rev. Fred Grantham in charge. Interment will be made in Pleasant Hill cemetery.

Lois Talbott was born Jan. 7, 1862, at Iowa City, Iowa, and passed away in Hawarden Oct. 26, 1943, so had reached the advanced age of 81 years, 9 months and 19 days. She was left an orphan early in life. She grew to young womanhood at Iowa City and was united in marriage with John W Dale at Dow City in October, 1883. The first three years of her married life she spent at Dow City, after which she moved to Miller, SD, where she lived for six years. In 1892, the family moved to Ireton and she continued to live there until the death of her husband Sept 9, 1925. During the 30 years she lived in Ireton, she took an active part in community affairs. Her husband was mayor of Ireton at the time of his death.

She was the mother of seven children. One son Walter died in infancy. The six surviving children are Ray Dale and Mrs. Grace Ahmann of Hawarden; Mrs. Edna Woertink of San Bernadino, Calif.; Mrs. Belle McNally of Lodi, Wis. Mrs. Helen Boggs of Warsau, Ind., and Mrs. Ruth Brown of Ypsilantj, Mich. She also leaves one sister, Mrs. Sarah Macy of Vermillion. S. D., and one half-sister, Mrs. Alice Hampton of Des Moines. There are 21 grandchildren and seven greatgrandchildren.

Two children, Evonne and Shirley Pluss, who have been raised in the home of her son, were as dear to her as her own grandchildren. Three of her grandsons are in the armed forces. They are Sgt, Vernon Ahmann, who has been in Africa for a year, Corp. David Brown at Tomah, Wis., and James McNally, Who is in the south Pacific. She was a sister-Jn-law of Mrs. Alf. Morgan of Hawarden, who is critically ill. Mrs. Dale was reared in the Quaker faith, but later she united with the Methodist church at Ireton. She was also a member of the Rebekah lodge. All of her daughters who live at a distance came for the funeral. Other relatives who came for the services include Corp. David Brown of Tomah. Wis., and Mrs. Sarah Macy of Vermillion.


 

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