DELLINGER, Mary Jane: Died 1966

DELLINGER, LOCK, WOLFE, MINGUS, WELLBRENNER, BEATH

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 9/25/2019 at 06:13:42

**Handwritten: 1966

MRS. MARY JANE DELLINGER

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Jane Dellinger, 98, were held Thursday, June 2 at the Milton Methodist Church in charge of Rev. Edward Philgreen of the Agency Methodist Church, assisted by Rev. Herbert Phillips of the Milton Church. Burial was in the Sunnyside Cemetery.

She was born Feb. 18, 1868 near Packwood, Iowa in Jefferson County, the daughter of Reese and Jane Elizabeth Lock Wolfe. In her youth she went to Woodland, Kansas, where she helped to establish a school and served as its teacher.

On Nov. 20, 1890, she married Edward Dellinger at Sigourney. He died May 31, 1913. The couple farmed near Packwood and later moved to Davis County near Pulaski until Mr. Dellinger's death. The family continued to live on the farm for nearly 30 years. At the age of 73 she moved from the farm to Milton and resided there 20 years. Because of failing eyesight, she moved in the fall of 1962, to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Vera Mingus in Agency.

Mrs. Dellinger was long active in the Order of Eastern Star.

Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. D.M. Mingus of Agency, Mrs. George Wellbrenner of Redding, Calif. and Mrs. Len Beath of Corning; two sons, W.R. Dellinger of Powell, Wyo. and Bernard of Nodaway, Iowa; 13 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren.

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by one son, in infancy, and a son, Ralph in 1954.

A Memorial is being established payable to the Agency Methodist Church.

Source: "Slutts Book", Pg. 251, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA