Emily Jeanette (Tiffany) WHITNEY

TIFFANY, WHITNEY, STROM, MORGAN, HOLMES, MINOR, OKEEFE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/23/2011 at 15:54:52

July 5, 1850 --- March 12, 1932

Mrs. Emily Jeanette Tiffany Whitney was born in Elmira, New York, July 5, 1850 and passed away at the home of her granddaughter Mrs. Lloyd Strom at Clarion, Iowa Saturday afternoon, March 12. She was united in marriage to Lewis M. Whitney September 6, 1869 at West Union, Iowa. To this union six children were born, Maude Emily Morgan, Myrin Louise Holmes, Frank, Fred, Lester and Mary A, Of all her children she is survived only by her son Fred of Los Angeles, Calif. She also leaves six granddaughters, three grandsons, ten great-granddaughters and one great great grand-daughter.

Mrs. Whitney was a member of the Presbyterian church of Oelwein and of the Rebekah Lodge. She made her home most of her life in West Union and Oelwein spending her last year with her grand-daughter Mrs. Lloyd Strom. The funeral services were held at the home at 10 o'clock Monday with Rev. H. O. Spilman of Clarion officiating. Interment was made in Dunham Grove cemetery near Randalia. Out of town relatives who attended the funeral as follows; Mrs. Marie Minor, Mrs. James O'keefe and Richard Holmes of Cedar Rapids, J. E. Holmes and Mrs. Sarah Tiffany of Oelwein.

Oelwein Daily Register - Oelwein, Iowa
17 March 1932