William A. Pointer (ca. 1875-1917)

POINTER, NOKES, RIDER, DEVINE

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 1/6/2019 at 16:12:54

From Nevada Evening Journal December 17, 1917 (page 5)

WILL POINTER IS DEAD

Has Been a Resident of Story County for Many Years

Will Pointer, age 42 years died on Sunday morning at 5:00 and will be buried in the cemetery at Iowa Center on Tuesday afternoon after services at the Evangelical church at 2:00. He leaves two sisters and two brothers. The brothers are Have Pointer of Collins and George Pointer of Canada and the sisters are Mrs. Elmer Nokes of Nevada and Mrs. Anna Rider of Canada. The third sister Mrs. Lou Devine and the parents are dead. He had lived in Story county practically all of his life and the last few years his home had been at Cambridge. He has been a helpless invalid for a number of years from the effects of a stroke of paralysis brought on by a gunshot wound.