Ellen Jane Lentz Traupel Ellen Jane Lentz, the daughter of Jacob and Jane Beavers Lentz, was born near Woodland, Iowa, on January 5, 1865, passed away at her home near Garden Grove, Iowa on April 9, 1940, at the age of 75 years, three months and four days.
On December 27, 1900, she was married to Moses Traupel, who died March 30, 1937. To that union were born two daughters, Mrs. Verda Hamilton of Garden Grove and Mrs. Mary Ocho Hoadley of Newton, Iowa, who with their husbands. Herman Hamilton and Robert Hoadley and one granddaughter, Alice Ellen Hamilton, also a nephew, Forest Hamilton, who was reared in this home, are left to mourn her departure. She was one of a family of eleven children, one brother and four sisters having passed to the great beyond. Those living are Mrs. Lottie Lockwood of Woodland, Mrs. Mary Gammon, Cambria, Mrs. Adelia Bremer, Lineville, Mrs. Clara Patton, Woodland, and Harty Lentz, Lambert, Okla.
Perhaps no woman in one community was more loved by all than was Mrs. Trauple. All her close friends knew her as "Aunt Janey," the good friend at whose home they were always welcome.
Death closes the eyes and seals the lips of our friends but their lives go on. How can anyone say, that this good friend of our is dead, when you and I can see her in grateful God given memory as clearly as when she was in our midst.
Funeral services were held on Thursday, April 11 at the High Point Methodist church in charge of the Stewart Funeral Home of Leon with Rev. A. V. Hart, pastor of the Leon Christian church officiating.
We desire to express our very great appreciation of the many kindnesses and for the sympathy and help of all at the time of the illness and death of our loved mother.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hamilton and daughter.Source: Leon Journal-Reporter, 1940 Apr 18, copy with Carla Rae Perks
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hoadley.