Olive E. (Hughes) Wax (1872-1939)

HUGHES, WAX, BLOOMBERG, HALSTED

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 1/9/2022 at 13:35:07

From Nevada Evening Journal May 19 1939 (page 6)

Funeral Services Held Thursday for Mrs. Clarence Wax

Funeral service for Mrs. Clarence Was, 66, who died at the Iowa Methodist hospital in Des Moines Tuesday afternoon, were held at the home of her daughter Mrs. Harold Bloomberg south of Nevada, Thursday afternoon, followed by burial in the Nevada cemetery. The services, which were attended by a large concourse of old neighbors and friends in addition to the numerous relatives, were in charge of Rev. C.E. Lookingbill of Nevada.

Olive E. Hughes-Wax, a daughter of Richard and Emma Hughes, was born in the Pleasant Grove neighborhood northwest of Nevada on August 11, 1872 and passed away the the Methodist Hospital, Des Moines, May 16, 1939 at the age of 66 years, 9 months and 5 days.

She grew to womanhood in the Pleasant Grove community and was united in marriage June 20, 1898 to Clarence G. Wax at Emmetsburg, Iowa. They spent several years of married life at Emmetsburg after which they moved to Kansas, where they lived
until 1905. Moving back to Story county, she spent the rest of her life in the Dalton Community with the exception of the past two years which were spent at their present home one mile south of Maxwell.

To this union five children were born; two daughters, Emma Bloomberg of Nevada, Ella Halsted of Zearing, and three sons, Henry of Maxwell, and Rease of Nevada and an infant who died in 1908.

Always of a cheerful disposition, her home and her children were the most important thing in her life.