Green Burials

Glen Green | Maria (Ashcroft) Green Jones

H. Glen Green

Born: August 7, 1890 in Missouri1
Died: February 1, 1935 in Newton, Jasper Co., Iowa1
Buried: Lot 92
Lot Owner: G. H. Green, purchased in 1935
Married: Maria Ashcraft
Children: Richard, Russel, Ruth
Parents: Ben F and Lida Newton Green1

Glen Green tombstone

Illness Fatal to H. Glenn Green

Funeral Services To Be Conducted Here
Sunday Afternoon

Harry Glenn Green, employee of the Iowa Southern Utilities company, died Friday at 10 p.m. at his home about a mile west of Newton on highway No. 6. His death followed a two weeks illness of heart disease.

Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. from the Murdoch funeral home by the Rev. Al DeGrott. Interment will be in the Sugar Grove cemetery, near Metz.

Mr. Green had been employed as lineman for the Iowa Southern Utilities company for the last nine years. He was a member of the Oak Ridge Grange.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Marie Green; three children, Richard, Russell, and Ruth; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben F. Green at Mill Grove, Mo.; a brother, E. A. Green of Newton, and four sisters, Mrs. Oswa Weaver and Mrs. Louis Bauml of Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. Dan Isaacs of Trenton, Mo., and Mrs. M. H. Downing of Newton. ~ The Newton Daily News, February 2, 1935






1. Jasper Co., Iowa Death Record, Book 2, page 122

Maria (Ashcraft) Green Jones

Born: March 24, 1897 in Mill Grove, Missouri
Died: May 11, 1975 in Newton, Jasper Co., Iowa
Buried: Lot 92
Lot Owner: G. H. Green, purchased in 1935
Married: H. Glen Green
Children: Richard, Russel, Ruth
Married: John A. Jones on Dec. 7, 1940 at Princeton, Missouri
Children: Alfred, Barron, Jack, Geraldine, and Harlene
Parents: David and Rose (Herford) Ashcraft

Marie Green Ashcroft Jones tombstone

Marie Jones, 78, Dies Sunday; Services Tuesday

Mrs. John A. (Marie) Jones, 78, of Rt. 2, Newton, a resident of the Newton community for approximately 50 years, died Sunday evening at the Skiff Memorial Hospital.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Toland-Wallace Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Sugar Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the Toland-Wallace Funeral Home after 7 p.m. today.

Survivors are her husband, four sons, Richard Green of Des Moines, Russell Green of Newton, Barron Jones of Newton and Jack Jones of Newton; three daughters, Mrs. H. E. (Ruth) Richardson of Cerritos, Calif., Mrs. Jim (Geraldine) Brown of Kellogg and Mrs. Jake (Harlene) Ettelson of Newton; 16 grand- children; 21 great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Mrs. Nellie Chaney of Chillocothe, Calif., and Mrs. May Worley of Santa Ana, Calif.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her first husband, H. Glen Green; a sister, Sarah; a son, Alfred Jones; and a grandson, Mike Jones.

Mrs. Jones reconfirmed her commitment to Christ in 1946. The daughter of David and Rose Herford Ashcraft, she was born Mar. 25, 1897 at Mill Grove, Mo.

She was married to John A. Jones Dec. 7, 1940 at Princeton, Mo. ~ The Newton Daily News, May 12, 1975.

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