Mary Elizabeth (Glasgow) Dunahoo (1869-1942)

GLASGOW, DUNAHOO, RAY, MOORE, DOGGETT, HALL, WOLF

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:12

From Nevada Evening Journal June 22, 1942 (page 3)

Funeral Services At Maxwell for Mrs. Mary Dunahoo

Maxwell, June 22 -- Funeral services for Mrs. Mary E. Dunahoo were held in the Methodist church in Maxwell Thursday afternoon with the pastor, the Rev John C. Turner in charge, with Miss Phyllis Turner at the piano a quartette composed of Mrs. Harold Mohler, Mrs. H. C. Larsen, C. B. French and Martin Troup sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere," "Old Rugged Cross" and "Abide With Me."

Pallbearers were her nephews, Ralph Moor, Leon Hall, Jimmie Dunahoo, Lester Glasgow, Ralph Doggett and Virgil Moore.

Interment was in the family lost in the Iowa Center cemetery.

Rev. Turner read the following life sketch.

Mary Elizabeth Dunahoo, daughter of David C. and Clista Angeline Glasgow, was born November 13, 1869 at Ontario, Ia., and passed away at the home of her sister, Mrs. Clayton Dunahoo on June 5, 1942. She was one of a family of twelve children. Two brothers, William and Brick, her sister, Mrs. Lois Ray, and a baby sister, Hattie, preceded her in death.

On March 20, 1889 she was united in marriage to John F. Dunahoo and to this union five children were born, two died in infancy and one son died in young manhood. Story county has been home continuously for her more than 72 years of life.

In early life she united with the Evangelical church at Iowa Center and there attended until coming to Maxwell and transferring her membership to the Maxwell Methodist church. Mrs. Dunahoo was a home maker, her chief interest was int her home and children, doing all she could for them.

She is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Clayton Dunahoo, Mrs. Geo. Moore, Mrs. John Doggett, Ames, Mrs. Lee Hall, Cambridge; three brothers, Nathaniel Glasgow of Kelsieville, Calif., Ernest of Maxwell and Mark of Marshalltown, two children, Clarence Vern of Waverly, Mrs. Arley N. Wolf of Collins; six grandchildren and many other relatives.

From her father, who came in early days from Virginia and made Iowa his home, Mrs. Dunahoo inherited a love and loyalty which made her a substantial part of this community in which she lived and reared well her family. She will be greatly missed.