Anna May (Argubright) YUNGCLAS
ARGUBRIGHT, YUNGCLAS, RECK, FULLER, OBENSCHAIN, HALL
Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/14/2009 at 20:10:04
Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa
October 30, 1962Mrs. H. T. Yungclas Dies in Michigan; Rites to be Thursday
Mrs. H.T. Yungclas, 98, died this morning at 5:30 at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Franklin M. Reck, Manchester, Mich. She had been in failing health the past several weeks. Funeral services will be Thursday afternoon at Manchester, with burial there. Survivors include two sons, James A. Yungclas of Renwick, Iowa, and William H. Yungclas of Webster City; and one daughter, Mrs. Franklin (Claire) Reck of Manchester; two brothers and two sisters, Ralph Argubright and Mrs. Neil Obenschain, both of Sacramento, Calif.; Mrs. Emma Fuller, Kalamazoo, Mich., and James Argubright, Garret, Ind.; 14 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Yungclas was preceded in death by her husband in 1952; one son, who died in infancy, her parents and several brothers and sisters. Mrs. Yungclas came to the Webster City community when she was seven years old and grew up in the French church community. Following her graduation from the Webster City schools, she taught in the schools of Hamilton county and also in the Black Hills. Following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Yungclas farmed west of Highview until 1946 when they moved to Michigan.
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Manchester Enterprise, Michigan
November, 1962Mrs. Anna Yunglas dies at 98
Funeral services for Mrs. Anna M. Yungclas, long time resident of Iowa and Manchester, Michigan will be held at 3:30 p.m. Thursday at the Jenter Funeral Home in Manchester. Reverend Jesse D. Epps, pastor of the Manchester Methodist Church will officiate. Mrs. Yungclas was 98 years old on April 29. With her husband, Henry T. Yungclas, she came to Manchester in 1946 from their farm in Webster City, Iowa. Mr. Yungclas passed away in 1952. Mrs. Yungclas was one of the few surviving covered wagon pioneers. She was born near Streator, Illinois, in 1864, the daughter of a wounded Civil War soldier, John W. Argubright and Jane Hall Argubright. At the age of five she traveled by covered wagon with her family in a wagon train to Webster City.
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