Jane (Brooks) MIDDLETON

BROOKS, MIDDLETON, MOORE, ROW, WATSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/30/2006 at 09:43:54

Jane Middleton, 82, of Clarion, passed away Saturday, April 2, 2005 at the Wright Medical Center in Clarion. Funeral services were held Tuesday, April 5 at 1:30 p.m., at the United Methodist Church in Clarion. There was a private family burial prior to the services.

Jane Brooks was born October 3, 1922, the daughter of Earl and Margaret Brooks of Eldora. She was raised in Eldora, Hampton and Eagle Grove. Jane graduated from the Eagle Grove High School in 1940 and Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing in Marshalltown in 1944. On September 1, 1946, Jane was united in marriage to Frank W. Middleton at the home of her parents in Eagle Grove. The couple spent their married life in Clarion. She practiced nursing in the U.S. Army, Clarion Community School, private practice, and the Wright County Public Health.

Jane is survived by her husband, Frank of Clarion; sister-in-law, Mrs. Wendell Brooks of Buckeye, Arizona and her two sons and one daughter. She is also survived by and cherished the support of the Middleton family, David Middleton and wife, Helen of Richland, Washington; their son and daughter, Jo Ellen Middleton of Riverside, California; and her two daughters; nephews, Tom and Marc Middleton of Belmond and Ron Middleton of Omaha, Nebraska and their families; Jack Row II and wife, Annette of Tennessee and their two sons; Valerie (Row) Watson and husband, George of Bella Vista, Arizona; Jeff Row of Dallas, Texas and his daughter and two sons; Barbara (Row) Moore and husband, Jim of Clarion; Jane's two honorary grandchildren, Elizabeth and Samuel Moore of Clarion; many great nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Wendell Brooks; brother and sister-in-law, Richard and Alberta Middleton; and brother-in-law, Robert Middleton.

April 7, 2005
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