Margaret Sarah (Grosz) GRIGGS

GRIGGS, GROSZKERNAN, BURKE, JANNSEN, BOONE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 11/19/2016 at 23:56:30

July 12, 1878 ---- March 1959

Mrs. Jay Griggs Dies at 80; Rites Monday

Goodell - Funeral services for Mrs. Jay Griggs, 80, were held Monday afternoon at Johnston Funeral Home, Belmond and at the Goodell EUB Church. The Rev. Elton Miller, Ventura and the Rev. Donald Varce officiated. Burial was in the Amsterdam Cemetery.

Margaret Sarah Grosz was born in Mt. Carroll, Ill. July 12, 1878. She moved to Avery Township in 1892 and taught several years before her marriage to Jay Griggs of Goodell, Oct. 3, 1900. They farmed five miles east of Goodell until they retired to their cottage at Clear Lake several years ago. Since the death of her husband last July, Mrs. Griggs has been living with her children, but returned to her home two weeks ago. She died there late Saturday. She was a member of the Goodell EUB Church, the WSWS, Royal Neighbors and the American Legion, Klemme.

Surviving are four children, Fernon, Garner; Mrs. Raphael Kernan, Great Falls, Mont.; Mrs. Gerald Burke, Goodell; Kenneth, Des Moines; 11 grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Corneil Jannsen, Mason City. A daughter, Mrs. Daniel Boone, preceded her in death.

Mason City Globe Gazette --- Iowa
March 23, 1959