Iva E. (Jones) SMITH

SMITH, MOSS, RAWSON, MCCAULLEY, JONES, CARMICHAEL

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 6/22/2007 at 23:02:47

23 Aug 1891 -- 10 May 1992

Clarion - Iva E. Smith, 100, of the Clarion Care Center, died Sunday. Survivors include sons, Earl, West Bend; Dale, Eagle Grove; John, Bloomington, IL; and Donald, Goldsboro, NC; daughters, June Moss, Goldfield and Bernice Rawson, Portland, OR; 20 grandchildren; 48 great-grandchildren; and six great great grandchildren; a half sister, Leona McCaulley, Lake City. She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Sarah Carmichael Jones; her husband, Ralph; sons, Gerald, Ralph Jr., Lloyd, Richard and Kenneth; infant daughter, Bernice; a granddaughter and a great grandchild. Iva E. Jones was born Aug. 23 1891 in Rockwell City. She attended country school near Rockwell City. In 1909 she married Ralph Smith of Jolley, at Rockwell City. They farmed near Rockwell City until 1919 when they moved to Eagle Grove. Her husband died in 1963. She was a member of the First Baptist Church, Eagle Grove.

Fort Dodge Messenger, May 11, 1992