POLING, Arthur M

POLING, MANKIN, MORRIS

Posted By: Nancy (email)
Date: 11/21/2001 at 09:06:52

This was published in the Jan 27, 2000 edition of the Morning Sun News-Herald. I am not related to Mr. Poling and have no further information re: him.

Arthur M. Poling, 98, of rural Keosauqua, died at 10:44 am Monday, January 24, 2000, at Wapello Nursing and Care Center, Wapello, Ia., where he had resided since Dec. 7, 1994. He was born January 12, 1902 near Mt. Sterling to Marion and Louella Mankin Poling. He married Etta O. Morris February 18, 1938 at the Methodist parsonage in Keosauqua. She died December 25, 1984.

He lived on the same farm between Pittsburg and Lebanon in Van Buren County for over 60 years. He was a Methodist and had been active in various community endeavors over the years.

Surviving are a daughter, Mary Cecile Hodges of Wapello, two grandsons, Michael Arthur Hodges and his wife, Joan, of Wapello and James David Hodges and his wife, Kathy of Keosauqua, two great grandsons, Robert David and Michael Benjamin Hodges and a great granddaughter, Stephanie Kirsten Hodges, a step-great grandson, Peter Dale and his wife, Kirsten and two step great-great-granddaughters, Monica Rose and Alicia Dale.

He was preceded in death by a son-in-law, James L. Hodges, three brothers, Otto, Harley and Roy Poling, and five sisters, Zoe Wolfe, Virgle Randolph, Zella Shipley and Hazel and Edith Poling.

Funeral services will be at 11 am Friday, January 28, 2000 at Pedrick Funeral Home, Keosauqua, Rev. Chris HInkle of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Wapello officiating. Burial will be in Maple Grove Cemetery, Cantril. Open visitation will begin at 4 pm Thursday at the funeral home, with family present 10 - 11 am Friday.

Memorials to Keosauqua United Methodist Church may be left at the funeral home.