John Arthur "Jack" Stanley (1919-1935)

STANLEY, ARTHUR

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/14/2021 at 08:20:39

From Nevada Evening Journal October 2, 1935 (page 3)

Accident Victim Laid to Rest In Cemetery at Lynnville

Funeral services for John Arthur Stanley, 16, who died at the Deaconess hospital in Marshalltown early in the morning of Friday, September 27, was held at the home of his parents four miles north of Colo, Sunday morning at 11:00, with his former pastor, Rev. Glenwood Stanley of Indianola in charge.

The large number of people in attendance at the services and the profusion of floral tributes showed the high esteem in which the boy was held in the community.

The boy was taken to Lynnville, former home of the family for burial that afternoon.

The songs "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and "Sometime We'll Understand" were sung by Mrs. Lloy Lounsbury, Mrs. Forest Horner, S. D. Rinehart and Billy Lounsbury, with Mrs. Dickenson at the piano, and "In the Garden" was sung by Thelma Weeks and Annette Carver.

The pallbearers were Paul Meade, John Handsaker, Doyle Borts, Johnnie Handsaker, Earl Rae, Georgie Buffington, Hubert Myers and Wayne Buttry, all close friends. Bernice Handsaker and Helen Hartwick took care of the flowers.

John Arthur Stanley or Jack as he was called, was born in Jasper county, Iowa, Jan. 11, 1919, and lived there until March 54, 1925. While the family lived in Hollandale, Minn., he finished the grades at Maple Island and took a year in high school in Albert Lea. His parents moved to near Colo April 1, 1934. He stayed at his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Arthur to finish that year of school and he was in his junior year in school at Colo. He had spent one month this year at his grandparents' home.

He leaves to mourn his departure his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Stanley, two sisters Iris Jean and Shirley Rae, three brothers Robert Bruce, Donald June and Gordon Delano, his great-grandmother Mrs. E. Arthur of Des Moines, three grandparents E. Stanley of Lynnville and Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Arthur of Hollandale, Minn., besides hosts of relatives and friends. Jack will be missed in his school and community as well as in his home.

The community in which he lived was shocked when they heard of the terrible accident which happened Sunday, Sept. 22, about noon, when the motorcycle that he and Lee Myers were riding and the car that his father, J. R. Stanley, and a man from Oklahoma were riding, collided at the corner west of Ernest Mead's. It is a blind corner with the corn hiding the view and neither saw the other until too late. John Arthur or Jack as he was known was the most seriously hurt, he having his foot severed at the ankle and the Myers boy with a broken leg. In a few minutes several were at the scene and Roy Myers took his boy and Albert Tolley of Zearing took Jack to Colo for first aid and then to the Deaconess hospital at Marshalltown. Everything that doctors, nurses and loving hands could do, failed to save Jack and he passed away Sept. 27 at 12:35 a. m.

Relatives and friends from a distance were Calvin Arthur and wife, Leonard Arthur and family and Ed Moore all of Hollandale, Minn., Alvin Hanson and wife of Albert Lea, Minn., Ed Arthur of La Porte and George, Vernol, Earl and Eugene Arthur of Waterloo, Clyde Johnson and wife and Eugene Smith and wife of Marshalltown, Elisabest Arthur, great-grandmother, Mable Cairns, Mr. and Mrs. Mart Stanley and son of Des Moines, Glenwood Stanley and family of Indianola, Miss Irene Stanley and Louis Savage of Salem, Ia., Verne Stanley and family, Clyde Jones and wife and Mrs. Esther Stanley of Lynnville, George Miller and wife of Newton, J. H. Taylor and wife and Art Briggs and wife of New Sharon, Margarite Robinson of Taintor, Louis Arthur and wife, Cecil Arhtur and wife of Searsboro and Mrs. Nell Arthur and Vera Hays of Grinnell, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Johnson of Prairie City.