Alvin Guy "Guy" Elliott (1891-1957)

ELLIOTT, CASTLEMAN, FOX, PARTRIDGE, KRIEGEL, STRATTON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 10/4/2020 at 11:03:52

From Nevada Evening Journal July 23, 1957 (page 4)

ALVIN GUY ELLIOTT

COLLINS: Funeral services were held for Guy Elliott in the Christian church Sunday afternoon at 2:30 with Rev. Ellis Martin the officiating clergyman.

Music was furnished by Mrs. Curtis Marsh of Kellogg who sang "In the Sweet Bye and Bye" as a solo and by Eldon Geisler of Mingo who sang "Beyond the Sunset" as a solo and they sang "In the Garden" as a duet. Accompaniment on the piano was by Mrs. C. R. Stone.

Casket bearers were Fred Kimberley, Fred Luing, Donald Pointer, Ralph Vasey, Floyd Oswa--- and Floyd Atwood.

The flowers were cared for by Mrs. Anna Sheibley and Mrs. Fred Kimberley.

Interment was in the Collins Evergreen cemetery where the Collins Masonic Order conducted graveside services. The Brouhard Funeral Home of Zearing was n charge.

Obituary

Alvin Guy Elliott, son of Thomas Wesley and Ida Bell Castleman Elliott, was born on a farm northeast of Collins on Dec. 6, 1891 and died at his home in Collins Thursday, July 11 ---- aged 65 years, seven months and five days.

He went to Willow Creek school nearby and later attended night school in Des Moines. As a young man he engaged in farming and took up the profession of wrestling.

On Dec. --, ---2 he was united in marriage with Harriett Roena Fox at her home north of Douglass, Kans. After their marriage they went to live in Oklahoma on her brother's farm, then moved to Iowa for seven years, then in Kansas for seven years and then back to Iowa for the remainder of his years, living near and in Collins.

He was baptized in the Christian church of Collins on Feb. 3, 1932. He was very much interested in youth and was a Sunday school teacher of a young people's class of 4- members for several years. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge 513 and of the Eastern Star.

Guy loved to fish and loved all kinds of sports and was an outstanding athlete having won the State Middleweight Wrestling Championship of Iowa in 1932.

Surviving are his wife Roena, and son, Obert, three daughters, Guylia (Mrs. Norman Partridge); Nelda (Mrs. Robert Kriegel) and Anoka (Mrs. John Stratton) all of Collins.

There are nine grandchildren, namely Delayne and Guy Elliott, D. G. Elliott and Cheryle Partidge, Guy Charles and -oland Hennick and Kevin and Kyla Stratton. There are four brothers, Fred of Collins, Donald Maxwell, ----- Wesley of Burling--- and V---- of Brainerd, Minn; three sisters, Bessie of Marshalltown, Mable Blink of Collins and Florence Church, also one aged uncle, Frank Elliott of Collins,and many other relatives and friends.

NOTE: The last paragraph is very difficult to read and was transcribed as best it could.