Jenkins, Emma Arminda Masters Brannon 1874-1940

JENKINS, MASTERS, BRANNON

Posted By: Lorelei Rusco (email)
Date: 5/5/2011 at 13:40:47

Jenkins, Emma Arminda Masters Brannon –
Mrs. Emma Jenkins died at the home of her son, Evan Brannon Wednesday Nov. 13 [1940] at the age of 66 years, 10 months and 1 day. Mrs. Jenkins had been in failing health for the past year and for several months had been suffering from the dreaded disease of cancer.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist church in Lenox Saturday afternoon, Nov. 16 [1940] at 2 o’clock, conducted by the Rev. F. J. Robins. Interment was made in the Morgan cemetery.
Emma Arminda Jenkins, daughter of John and Elizabeth West Masters, was born in Adams county, Ia., four and one half miles northeast of Lenox on January 12, 1874. She grew to womanhood in this community and on March 4, 1897, she was married to William M. Brannon at Bedford, Ia. One son, Evan was born. In 1914 her husband passed away near Sargent, Nebr. And on October 16, 1923 she was again married to Harry Jenkins, who died about a year later at a hospital in St. Joseph, Mo.
Her early life was spent in the vicinity of Lenox and after her first marriage she lived for some time near Sargent, Nebr. but the last nine years of her life she made her home near Butler, Mo. In June, of this year she came to make her home with her son, where she was cared for by his wife and her sister, Mrs. Zetta Wilt.
She is survived by her son Evan and his wife Wilma; three grandchildren, Beverly, Donn and Jean Brannon and three sisters, Nellie Masters of Butler, Mo., Mrs. Zetta Wilt of Lenox and Mrs. Ella Cade of New Market besides three nephews and one niece.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa November 21, 1940