Chesley Kinney

KINNEY, SIMPSON, AYERS, ZAERR, COSSELL

Posted By: Volunteer: Roxanne Riggan
Date: 6/1/2012 at 15:24:53

CHESLEY KINNEY DIES AT PULASKI

Funeral services were conducted at the Pulaski Methodist church Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 for Chesley Kinney, 81, who died at his home in Pulaski Sunday evening.
The services were conducted by Rev. Roy Hoover and burial was in the Barker cemetery.
The body was at the Wagler Funeral Home prior to the services.

Son of Harper and Obera Simpson Kinney, he was born in Kentucky February 20, 1877. He was a retired farmer, having formerly resided north of Downing, Mo.

Survivors include his wife, Gertrude; two sons, Virgil of Kirksville, Mo., and Leland of Milton; a daughter, Mrs. George Ayers of Pulaski; two sisters, Mrs. Rosa Zaerr of Queen City, Mo., and Mrs. Bessie Cossell of Downing, Mo; and Leon Kinney of Ottumwa.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Scrapbook A, page 380, Keosauqua Public Library; Keosauqua, IA