Louisa Cordelia (Goodnow) Dunahoo (1864-1929)

GOODNOW, DUNAHOO, AYERS, KURTZ, MCNEE

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 6/16/2019 at 19:25:18

From Nevada Evening Journal January 21, 1929 (page 4)

Mrs. Dunahoo Was a Story County Pioneer

A number of Nevada people were at Iowa Center Sunday afternoon to attend the interment of Mrs. Sam Dunahoo, former pioneer of that community, who died Saturday morning at Blairsburg. The funeral services were held Sunday morning at 11 at Blairsburg, after which the funeral party drove to Iowa Center and interment was made in Evergreen cemetery.

Louisa Cordelia (Goodman [sic]) Dunahoo was born April 23, 1864 in Franklin county, New York, and died January 18, 1929 at Blairsburg, Iowa, aged 64 years, 8 months and 25 days.

She came to Iowa with her parents, Palemon and Margaret Goodnow, when she was a little girl. Her girlhood days were spent in Shelby and Story counties.

She was united in marriage to W. S. Dunahoo of Story county, Sept. 14, 1881. To this union were born three children, Nellie Ayers of Blairsburg; Mary Kurtz of Aitken, Minn.; Margaret McNee of Blairsburg.

Mr. and Mrs. Dunahoo lived in or near Iowa Center until 1921 when they moved to Blairsburg. They had joined the Evangelical church of Iowa Center about 45 years ago. So it was not strange to find them transferring their memberships and taking part in the work of the church in this place.

Mrs. Dunahoo's life was a living testimony to the reality of that miracle of miracles. The new birth. The great truth that Jesus saves was the keynote of her life and her teaching in the Sunday school.

Besides the three children she leaves three brothers: Ely of Algona, Milton J. of Des Moines and LeRoy of Colo, Mr. Dunahoo having preceded her in death October 7, 1925. Seven grandchildren, one great grandchild and many friends to mourn the loss of a sainted mother and sister who could break the spiritual bread of life among them.