William Loren "Loren" Ayers (1891-1918)

AYERS, OXLEY, DAILY

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/23/2017 at 23:21:12

From Nevada Evening Journal December 4, 1918 (page 5)

FUNERAL OF LOREN AYERS

Interment was at the Iowa City Cemetery.

Brief services for the late Loren yer whose death was told of in a recent issue of the Evening Journal, was held Sunday afternoon at 1:00, at the Evergreen cemetery. The services were conducted by Rev. J. C. McCain at the Methodist church at the Peoria neighborhood. Owing to illness the wife was unable to be present at the service and at the interment which was in the Iowa City cemetery.

William Loren Ayers, oldest son of John and Ellen Ayers, was born at Nevada, Story county, Iowa, Oct. 23, 1891 and departed this life at the home of his wife's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Oxley, with whom they were temporarily residing Nov. 29, 1918, aged 27 years, 3 months and 6 days.

Loren was taken down sick with influenza and it soon developed into pneumonia and in spite of his youth and vigor and all that his physician could do, he passed away. He was surrounded by his loving wife, his father, mother and wife's parents when death called him at 6:00 o'clock Friday morning.

Loren was married to Miss Florence Ann Oxley of Maxwell April 18, 1914. He was a member of the Mystic Workers lodge of Collins near which place he had lived for the last ten years. He was a good and obliging neighbor and a kind and loving husband. He leaves his faithful wife, his parents, three sisters, Mrs. M. K. Daily of Ames and Misses Margaret and Mary Ayers and one brother, Lowell, at home besides many relatives. Two brothers, Meade and Lyman, preceded him in death.

It is hard to know that Loren with his jolly and cheerful greetings is dead but he has gone to a better world.