Arthur James "Art" Naughton (1894-1970)

ATHERTON, CUNNINGHAM, KLINGER, NAUGHTON

Posted By: Eileen Reed
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:46

Arthur J. Naughton, 75, died at 8:15 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, at Pocahontas Community Hospital where he had been a patient for about a month. He had been in failing health for several months. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church with burial in Calvary Cemetery at Eagle Grove. The Powers Funeral Home is in charge. Casketbearers will be Jack McCartan, Ed Larson, Clarence Kennedy, Joe Hallman, Henry Panbecker and Bert Viktor. Military rites will be conducted at the cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home Thursday after 1:00 p.m. A parish rosary will be held Thursday night at 8:00 p.m. The legion of Mary rosary will be Friday at 4:00 p.m., a parish rosary will be held Friday evening at 8:00, and by the Catholic Order of Foresters at 9:00.

The family requests that memorials be left to the cancer fund or the Pocahontas Community Hospital.

Art Naughton was born Aug. 27, 1894 at Ransom, Ill., and attended schools there. He came to Pocahontas in 1914 and was married Nov. 21, 1922 to Rose Klinger at Eagle Grove in the Sacred Heart Chruch. They farmed near Pocahontas until 1926 and he engaged in the trucking and ice business until 1936. The ice house was located in a building near the railroad tracks. Mr. Naughton was among the first in the state to establish a locker plant, his being the seventh, and was located in this ice house until 1943 when the business was moved into the building now occupied by the Coast to Coast Store. In 1955 the Naughtons built the “Art’s Frozen Foods” establishment at its present location and he continued its operation until his son, James, took over in May, 1966.

Survivors include his widow; two sons, James of Pocahontas and Richard of Marshalltown; eight grandchildren; a brother, Joe Naughton of Holabird, S. D., and two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Cunningham of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Mrs. Cora Atherton of Union Grove, Wis. A son Gerald, died July 2 [3], 1939.

The Pocahontas Record-Democrat
Pocahontas, Iowa
Thursday, February 12, 1970