ENNESS, J. Walter

ENNESS, HAGERTY, DAVIS, GUINN, BARNUM, MCTEE, NORDBERG, HULSON

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 10/11/2020 at 19:26:38

Walter Enness Services Are held Tuesday

J. Walter Enness, 80, died at Memorial Hospital Sunday, November 19, about 11 p.m.

The son of William and Margaret Hagerty Enness, he was born at Colchester, Illinois, January 31, 1887. He had resided in Mt. Pleasant the past 24 years, presently living at 709 N. Main St. He worked at the I.A.A.P. in Burlington for four years and until retirement was employed by the city. He was a member of the Methodist Church and Masonic Lodge of Memphis, Missouri.

On December 22, 1909, he was married to Lola Davis, who survives.

Also surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Noel (Dorothy) Guinn, Mrs. Ralph (Pauline) Barnum and Mrs. William (Anna Jane) McTee, all of Mt. Pleasant, and Mrs. John (Wilma) Nordberg of Farmington; four grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. H.C. Hulson of Keokuk; and one brother, Robert Enness of Memphis, Missouri.

One daughter, Virginia, and two brothers preceded him in death.

Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, November 21, at the Crane, Ewart, Young Funeral Home. Rev. C. Dendy Garrett, pastor of the First Methodist Church, officiated.

Interment was in Sunnyside (Cemetery).

Source: "The Hazel Stanford Obituary Collection", Pg. 70, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA