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Melissa Jacobus Frey (published in August 1925)
Mrs.
M.A. Frey
Mrs. M.A. Frey died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. George Winkle, in Hartford, Wash., Saturday, Aug. 8. The body was shipped to Clarinda and the
funeral services will be held Friday afternoon from the Christian church in
this city.
Mrs. Frey formerly lived three and
one-half miles north of Clarinda on the Wall street
road and was the widow of the late Frank Frey
Frank Frey (published 4-10-1901)
Obituary
Frank Frey died at his home three and one-half
miles north of Clarinda, last Wednesday afternoon at 4:15 o’clock, after an
illness of twelve days from pneumonia.
Deceased was born in East Palmyra, N.Y. on January 12, 1853, and came to
Page County in 1878. He was married to
Miss Malissa A. Jacobus, of Emporia, Kan., on May 10, 1879. They returned to
New York for two years, then came back in 1882 to
Iowa, where they have lived since.
Twelve children have been born to them, ten of them still
surviving. They are: Emma, Charles,
Clarence, Alice, Ethel, Claude, Harvey, Ralph, Donald, and Helen, the last
named being one year old. Mr. Frey is
one of the best known and most highly respected citizens of this part of the
county. He has been a member of the
Christian church of this city for some years, and has always been an honorable,
upright, and industrious man. Besides
his immediate family, nine brothers and sisters survive him, as follows: Fred
and Adam, of East Palmyra, N.Y; John and Will, of Newark N.Y.; Charles, of
Fairville, N.Y.; Edward of Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. Lioble Bayheim, of Lines, N.Y.;
Mrs. Kate Conine, of Kalamazoo, Mich.; and Mrs. P.H. Lux of Burlington,
Mich. Mrs. Lux and her husband, with
Mrs. John Frey, are here to attend the funeral service, which will be held at
the home, this afternoon at two o’clock, conducted by Rev. W. T. Fisher,
assisted by Dr. T.C. Smith. Interment in Clarinda cemetery.
Walter Frey (published September 1994)
Walter
Leore Frey
Walter Leore Frey, 76, died Sunday,
Sept. 4, 1994, at the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital.
He was born Feb. 28, 1918, at home,
the son of Harvey C. and Sylvia Brooks Frey, at their farm southeast of
Villisca. At the age of 4 on the death
of his mother, he and his younger brother Francis were raised by their maternal
grandparents, Rome and Daisy Brooks. He
attended country school and Villisca High School, graduating in 1935. He attended the University of Iowa, majoring
in civil engineering.
In 1936 he met and courted Maxine Mace
and in 1939 they were married on March 1 in Clarinda. They moved to a farm south of Nodaway where
they have since resided.
He was a member of the Nodaway
Methodist Church and served on its boards.
He was also active in community affairs, serving on both the Nodaway and
Villisca school boards, the Adams County Extension Board and the Farm Bureau
Board.
He became a Mason in 1947 and served
as a District Lecturer for more than 40 years.
In the early 1970s he joined the ZA-GA-ZIG Shrine of Des Moines, being a
member of the Karousel Kut-Ups Unit in Corning.
He is survived by his wife, Maxine of
Nodaway; children, Curt Frey, wife Shirley, of Oskaloosa; Cheryl Lyall, husband
Bob, of Indianola; and Lyle Frey, wife Sue, of Villisca; five grand-daughters;
a brother, Francis Frey of Villisca; stepmother, Golda Frey of Clarinda; and
sister-in-law Carolyn Lackey of Pittsburgh, Ca.
Funeral services and Masonic services
were held Tuesday, Sept. 6, at the Wolfe Funeral Home in Villisca, with burial
in Clarinda Cemetery.
Mae Feese Frey (published 2/23/59)
Former
Mae Feese died in California
Husband C I Frey, had been Clarinda lumberman
Mrs. Charles I Frey, 68, who was formerly Mae Feese of Villisca, died Monday at her Long Beach, Calif, home.
She had suffered a lingering illness, her death attributed to heart trouble. Burial was to be in Glendale. Mr. and Mrs. Frey had lived in Long Beach since 1929. Besides her husband, a son is Fay Frey at Pasadena, Calif, and daughter, Mrs. George (Nell) Thomsen at Long Beach. Mrs. Arch (Nellie) Conner of McPherson, Kan., is a sister, and Mrs. Oscar Fail of here is a sister-in-law. The late Clifford Feese was a brother.
Mr. Frey will be remembered for his work in Green Bay Lumber Co yards at Clarinda, and he has continued similar work in the west.
Letha Davison Frey (published February 1994)
Letha
Davison Frey
Letha Davison Frey was born at Clarinda on September 27, 1897 and died at Bellevue, Wa. on February 18, 1994. She was the daughter of Lawrence and Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Davison and grand-daughter of Margaret Jane Davison and Doris Reiners. She had been a resident of the Care Center at Kelsey Creek in Bellevue since last July.
She attended the Thompson School in East River Township for the first eight grades and then Clarinda High School. During her high school years she made her home with her Grandmother Davison and graduated with the class of 1917.
She married Claude R. Frey of Clarinda in September of 1917 and they farmed near Clarinda until the spring of 1921 when they moved to Everett, Wa.
Survivors include on daughter Mary Jane Frey, Bellevue, Wa.
She was preceded in death by her parents and one son Lowell R. Frey.
Cryptside services were held at Acacia Mausoleum in Seattle, Wa. on February 23, 1994.
Lowell Ray Frey (published 7/2/1931)
Lowell
Ray Frey
Much sympathy is expressed to Mr. and Mrs. Claude Frey at the death of their nearly thirteen-year-old son, Lowell Ray Frey, whose funeral services were held Sunday afternoon from the Walker funeral home, conducted by the Presbyterian pastor, Dr. A. B. Thutt, the body being laid away in Clarinda cemetery. The pallbearers were Roy Davison, Merrill Davison, Wilber Davison, Farrel Dow, Derbert Davison and Edward Nelson. The boy was born just north of Clarinda, being twelve years, eleven months and twenty days of age, on June 27th, when he met an accidental death at the Frey home near Everett, Wash., while assisting sawing wood with a circular woodsaw, and the flywheel broke to pieces.
The father, mother and little sister accompanied the remains to Clarinda. The will probably stay here until first of the year. They have been operating a chicken ranch near Everett, Wash..
James Jacobus (published 2/9/1907) – there is an error (Melissa was the widow of Frank Frey)
James
Jacobus
James Harvey Jacobus, one of Page county’s oldest and best known residents, died at the home of his only daughter, Mrs. M. A. Frey, three miles north of this city early yesterday morning, aged seventy years, two months and twenty-four days. Mr. Jacobus was born November 4th, 1836. In 1857 he was married to Harriet Carter, and to this union were born four children, Melissa A., now the wife of M. A. Frey, William T., Charles E., and Linnie E. Jacobus. During his life in this county Mr. Jacobus followed a number of different trades, and although he leaves very little property, was an energetic worker, and always provided himself and family with the necessities and comforts of life. Among his many interesting qualities one of the most marked was his propensity for traveling and remarkable though it may seem, he made nine trips to Los Angeles, California, and back during the years that he claimed this county as his permanent residence.
Mr. Jacobus is survived by two sisters, one living at Los Angeles, California, and one at Villisca, and one brother whose home is at Grand Island, Nebraska. His death was simply the result of exhaustion incident to old age, combined with an attack of the grippe. The funeral will be held Sunday, and the body will be laid to rest in the Clarinda cemetery.
