John Peter Hoel (1854-1910)

HOEL, JACKSON, GRIFFIN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 2/18/2017 at 22:13:35

From Nevada Representative October 14, 1910 (front page)

OBITUARY

SUDDEN DEATH OF J. P. HOEL

John P. Hoel, a well known and successful farmer living southeast of Nevada in Nevada township, died very suddenly at his home Tuesday evening. The occasion was heart-trouble of which he had had warnings and concerning which he had very recently taken medical advice. The advice had been to be very careful of himself but he was a man not well suited by habit to heed such advice, and he did on Tuesday a hard day's work and followed it up with a hearty supper. The result was pains that kept him up through the evening, and when he thought he was better and started for bed he died.

The deceased was a member of Hoel family that form an early time have been residents of this community, although in later years he has been perhaps the only survivor here of the original stock. He started out for himself, rented farms, bought a farm, sold that and bought a better one and got ahead as a good farmer has been wont to do in central Iowa. Always he has commanded the esteem of the people about him, and his demise will strike them all as being especially untimely, and he leaves a wife and children. His funeral will be conducted this afternoon from the Christian church.

From Nevada Representative October 18, 1910 (page 5)

Funeral of John P. Hoel

The funeral of the late John P. Hoel was conducted Friday afternoon from the Christian church by Dr. Bunce of Des Moines. Mr. Hoel was a native of Norway, son of Peter Hoel, and at the time of his very sudden death was 56 years of age. He married in December 1887, Miss Emma Jackson of Ames. He is survived by his wife and eight children, four sons and four daughters, the eldest a young man nearly twenty-two years of age; also he leaves his brothers Charles and Ole and his sister, Mrs. Amelia Griffin.

Mrs. Hoel and her children wish to extend most heartfelt thanks in their kind friends and neighbors, who so kindly assisted them in the time of the death of and burial of the husband and father.