Mrs. Frances Penrod Moughler 1872-1936
MOUGHLER, PENROD
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Date: 5/14/2012 at 20:36:52
Mrs. Frances Penrod Moughler, daughter of John and Mahala Penrod, was born in Stark County, Ohio, Oct. 11, 1872, and passed away at the home of Frank Clark near Troy, Iowa, July 13, 1936 at the age of 63 years, 9 months and two days.
Frances was the third child in a family of six. When but a small child she moved with her parents to Davis County, Iowa, where she spent her entire life. At the age of sixteen she became a member of the Hickory Grove Baptist church.
On Nov. 17, 1888 she was united in Marriage to Robert N Moughler.
Frances was a devoted wife quiet and sincere, ever thinking of others. Her illness was of short duration and her death came as a shock to the entire community.
She was preceded in death by her father and mother and one brother Joe.She leaves to mourn her departure her husband two brothers. Emanuel of Troy, Iowa and George of Beach City, Ohio, two sisters, Irene of Bloomfield, Iowa, and Ida of St. Paul, Minn.; also Frank Clark with whom she and her husband have made their home the past several years, besides many friends and relatives.
Funeral rites were held at the Hickory Grove church with Rev. Luther Childs of Centerville preaching the funeral sermon.
Burial was at the Rouch cemetery.Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Colston, Mrs. Charles Barker and Wayne Jackson, accompanied by Mrs. Downing sang at the services. Pallbearers were Jake Hilpert, Frank Hilpert, John Birchmier, Charles Barker and Percy Bollman.
Card of Thanks
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We wish to thank friends and neighbors for their kind expressions of sympathy and for the beautiful floral offerings. We appreciated them very much.
R. N. Moughler
Sisters and brothers
Frank ClarkSource: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Scrapbook A, page 374, Keosauqua Public Library; Keosauqua, IA
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