Amy Katherine "Katherine" (Hall) Garland (1867-1946)

HALL, GARLAND, FALKNER, WOODS, WALTON, COLE

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Nevada Evening Journal May 11, 1946 (page 4)

Funeral Service For Katherine Garlock At Maxwell Sunday

Maxwell, May 10 -- Funeral services for Katherine Hall Garlock, widow of the late Henry J. Garlock, were held in her home Sunday afternoon, May 5, with her pastor, the Rev. David S. de Best, officiating. Pall bearers were Jay Harman, William Joor, Arthur Porter, R. B. Bullard, George Cook, and Guy Cooper.

Floral tributes of love and esteem were most beautiful and profuse. Interment was in the family lot beside her husband in the Maxwell cemetery.

Amy Katherine Hall was born in Milford, Indiana, March 31, 1867. With her parents, Noble P. Hall and Margaret Falkner Hall, and two older sisters, she moved by covered wagon to Story county in 1869 and settled on a farm one mile east of Maxwell. Katherine was a born leader and philanthropist, devoted to her family and friends, was ever ready to champion and assist any in trouble or in need. She was friend to all and her hospitality was unbounded. Until her health failed she was active in the church and in social and civic affairs.

Before her marriage to Henry J. Garlock in 1895, she was a teacher in the public schools of Story county and in the Nevada schools. For a number of years she was superintendent of the Sunday School of the Presbyterian church ans she served on the board of the public library. She was a charter member of the Maxwell Woman's Club, which will celebrate the 50th anniversary in February, 1947, was president of said club for 15 years, 1900-1915. Mrs. Addie Douglass is the only charter member remaining in the club.

Mrs. Garlock was preceded in death by her husband, Henry J. Garlock, in 1929, who was a banker in Story county for more than 30 years, and by her youngest son, Ensign Robert Noble Garlock, banker at Adel prior to his enlistment, who lost his life in an airplane accident off the Hawaiian Islands Sept. 19, 1943. Two other sons survive, Fred L. Garlock of the U. S. department of agriculture in Washington, D. C., and Richard Henry Garlock of the Bank of Manhattan, New York City. Also surviving are a grandson, Frederic Adams Garlock, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Garlock of Bethesda, Maryland, a granddaughter, Charlotte Grace, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Garlock of West Orange, N. J., two sisters, Mrs. Chas. M. Woods, of Ames, and Mrs. A. P. Walton of Des Moines, Mrs. Mabel Cole, a niece, has been a constant companion and, with her husband, Harve W. Cole, has lived with and kept the home for Mrs. Garlock for the last year and a half.