George E. MONTGOMERY

MONTGOMERY, ANDERSON, COOPER, CONN, LUICK, SCHUTTE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/26/2008 at 09:42:07

George Montgomery

Funeral services for George E. Montgomery, 75, of 1403 1st. St. N., a resident of the Newton since 1970, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 30, at Wallace-Pence Funeral Home. The Rev. John H. Moorlach, pastor of Mount Zion United Methodist Church and the Rev. Harold Schutte of Oskaloosa, will conduct services. Burial will be in Mount Zion Cemetery in rural Newton. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 p.m. Wednesday. Visitation with the family will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials in his name may be left at the funeral home.

He died Tuesday morning at his home. Survivors are his wife, Ruth G.; two sons, Darrell L. and William J., both of Newton; a daughter, Joanne (Mrs. Larry) Anderson of Newton; six grandchildren; six step-grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Erma Cooper of Prairie City and Muriel Conn of Newton. He was preceded in death by his parents, a son, Raymond in 1977, a son in infancy, a daughter in infancy, a grandson in infancy, two brothers and two sisters.

Mr. Montgomery, an employee of the generator assembly department of Winpower Manufacturing Co., until retiring in 1980, attended Mount Zion United Methodist Church and was a member of the United Auto Workers, Local 997, Retirees Union.

The son of William L. and Mabel Luick Montgomery, he was born July 21, 1915 near Belmond and attended rural schools in the Belmond area. He was married to Ruth G. Schutte April 24, 1943 in Bethany, Mo. Mr. Montgomery moved to the Newton area in 1944.

The Newton Daily News, IA
28 November 1990