George Henry Hostetter (1873-1939)

HOSTETTER, GROVE

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 7/27/2015 at 19:18:58

From unknown newspaper May 1939

Funeral rites for George H. Hostetter, 65, West Lincoln Way farmer, who died here Sunday evening, held from the Nevada Church of Christ Wednesday afternoon and were attended by concourse of relatives, old neighbors and friends that filled the church to capacity.

The service was in charge of his pastor, Rev. C. V. Pence and the one song, a duet, was by Mrs. Lee Cook and Mrs. C. V. Pence who sang, "Have Thine Own Way, Lord." Mrs. T. B. Warren was at the piano.

Active pallbearers were John W. Cook, Ike Tudor, Lee Cook, Marlie Lobaugh, Corey Kurtz and C. B. Knight.

Honorary pallbearers were F. W. Kinsman, Mac Toms, W. W. Alexander, Nels Christiansen, Addison Kingsbury and Wesley Huff, these being selected from among his old neighbors on the farm.

The floral offerings were many and beautiful, a beautiful, though silent testimony of the very high regard in which Mr. Hostetter had been held.

Burial was in the Nevada cemetery.

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George H. Hostetter was born in Kappa, Woodard County, Illinois, December 8, 1873, the son of Samuel and Martha Hostetter. In 1897 Mr. Hostetter was married to Mary Ann Grove at Paola, Kansas and to this union were born four children. In February, 1907 he moved to Iowa from El Paso, Illinois and for fifteen years lived on a farm two miles west and one mile north of Nevada, Iowa. Then the family moved to the farm just across west from North Grant School, which has been the family home ever since.