Lewis Ray Montgomery 1906 - 1976

MONTGOMERY, STERNS, BANKS, JOHNSON

Posted By: Linda H Meyers (email)
Date: 6/7/2009 at 11:18:34

Lewis Ray Montgomery of Nevada died Thursday morning

NEVADA- Lewis Ray Montgomery, 1145 N Ave., died Thursday morning at Mary Greeley Hospital in Ames where he had been a patient for the past 15 days. He had been ill for three years and was 69.

Services will be held from the Ryan Funeral Home on Saturday, Jan. 24 at 11 a.m. Rev. Jeen Park will officiate with burial in the Evergreen Memory Gardens north of Nevada.

Born Aug. 31, 1906, in Brandon, Ia. to Wilfred and Elsie Montgomery. He had been a Nevada resident for the past 44 years and had been employed at Graphic Forms. He married Bessie Sterns in 1926.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Bernard and Francis Montgomery, both of Nevada; one daughter, Mrs. Helen (Charles) Banks of Nevada; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; one brother, Merlin Montgomery of Nevada and one sister, Mrs. Leonard Johnson of Ackley.

He was preceded in death by his parents, one sister and an infant brother.

---from the Nevada Journal (Death date: 22 Jan 1976)