Minnie R. Lundy Tomlinson (1870-1945)

LUNDY, TOMLINSON, WARNOCK

Posted By: Dennis and Gail Bell (email)
Date: 8/23/2005 at 19:36:05

THE NEVADA EVENING JOURNAL, July 1945. “Final Rites For Mrs. S. J. Tonmlinson Held At Maxwell. Maxwell, July 28 – Funeral services for Minnie R. Tomlinson, 75, wife of Sam J. Tomlinson, were held Thursday afternoon at the Methodist church with the pastor, the Rev. C. R. Fitz officiating. A quartette composed of Gerton Nelson, Mrs. Ray Gooden, Mrs. H. C. Larsen and Doris Myers sang three hymns, “Does Jesus Care”, “The Lord Knows Why” and “It Is Well With My Soul”, with Mrs. Nelson accompanist at the piano. Flower offerings were very beautiful and profuse, arranged and carried by Mrs. Forest Cooper and Mrs. Venice Moore. Burial was made in the Peoria cemetery. Rev. Fitz read the following obituary: Minnie R. Lundy, daughter of Augustus and Jane Warnock Lundy, was born April 19, 1870, on a farm 9 miles north of Indianola, youngest child in a family of four children. She departed this life Tuesday afternoon, July 24, 1945, at the Mary Greeley hospital in Ames. She grew to womanhood in the community in which whe was born, received her early education in the school of that community, and later attended Highland Park college and Drake University in Des Moines. She fitted herself for the teaching profession and taught eight years in the schools of Warren and Polk counties. On March 15, 1900, she was married to S. J. Tomlinson, of near Maxwell, and they made their home on the Tomlinson farm, spending all but three years of their married life there. To this union, one son, Kenneth W., was born and he and the husband survive her passing. She was a long time member of the Maxwell Methodist church and a Past Matron of the Annie Laurie chapter, OES. Besides the husband, and son, she is survived by one grand-daughter, Joyce Helen Tomlinson, a brother, J. W. Lundy, a sister, Miss Annie Lundy, both of Indianola, and a number of nephews and nieces, as well as many more distant relatives and friends.”

BURIAL: Iowa Historical Library, Des Moines, Iowa. POLK COUNTY IOWA CEMETERIES, WASHINGTON TWP., general *F 627.P7C4V6, Peoria Cemetery, page 18. TOMLINSON, Minnie R., born 1870, died 1945, sec. CS, tier 11, row 6; Samuel J Tomlinson, born 1872, died 1963, sec. CS, tier 11, row 6, misc. inf. Masonic emblem.