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Bedford Free Press
Thursday January 21, 1897 p. 3
Pioneer Mother Dead
Mrs. Lucinda Mohler, Wife of the Late Leonard Mohler, Passes Quietly From Earth Life
Died,
at the home of her son, D. [ouglas] C. [alvin] Mohler, east of Bedford, Thursday morning January 15,
1897, Mrs. Lucinda Mohler,
aged 77 years, 11 months and 11 days.
Funeral services were conducted from the home by Rev. E. N. Ware of the
First Presbyterian Church, at 2 oÕclock Sunday, January 19.
The
remains were laid to rest in the Bedford Cemetery, while around the open grave
were assembled a large concourse of relatives and friends, the latter including
many of the pioneer settlers of Taylor County.
The
deceased was the wife of the late Leonard Mohler, who died Feb. 21, 1896, not quite one year
ago. Miss Lucinda Pletcher and Leonard Mohler were united in marriage in Morgan County, Ohio,
April 12, 1838, and came to Taylor County seventeen years later, in 1855. Mr. Mohler preempted 360 acres of land, now comprising parts
of the following farms belonging to C. [hristopher] C.[olumbus] Mohler,
Samuel Martin, H. Montgomery, and
a part of the Hartzler
farm. In 1862 Mr. and Mrs.
Mohler purchased and located on
the farm one-half mile east of Bedford, where they both died. To them were born twelve children, nine
of whom are still living, all being present when the mother passed away.
Like
a larger number of the pioneer settlers, Mr. and Mrs. Mohler early acquired habits of thrift and economy and
in consequence they accumulated a large amount of property, which they shared
liberally among their children.
They lived long and useful lives, and died as they had lived, universally
respected by all who knew them.
Bedford Free Press
Tuesday January 30, 1917 [p. 1]
George S. Mohler
George
S. [ilas] Mohler died at his home
a mile northeast of Bedford, Friday morning, January 26, 1917, aged 65 years, 7
months and 26 days. The funeral
services were held at the home Sunday afternoon at 1:30 oÕclock, conducted by
Rev. J. A. Currie. Interment was
made in the Bedford cemetery.
George
S. [ilas] Mohler was the son of [John]
Leonard and Lucinda [Pletcher] Mohler
and was born in Zanesville, Ohio, May 31, 1852. He came with his parents to Taylor County, Iowa, when he was
four years of age. August 4, 1881,
he was united in marriage to Matilda J. [ane] Brock. To
this union three children were born:
Walter Warren, who died
in infancy; Bessie Mae, now Mrs.
Charles A. [lvin] Allen; and Beulah
Edna Mohler. He united with the Baptist church at an
early age. Later in life he became
a member of the Conway Presbyterian Church and when this organization
discontinued its work, he transferred his membership to the Bedford
Presbyterian church.
For
a number of years, the deceased was associated with Cyrus Wolverton in the blacksmithing business in Bedford and in
1890 took up farming, which he continued to follow until his death. He was located on the farm where he
died for twenty or more years. Mr.
Mohler is survived by his wife
and two daughters, six brothers and two sisters. They are: C.
[hristopher] C. [olumbus] Mohler, Mrs. Thomas Greer [Lucinda May], Charles M.
[arion] Mohler, John F.[ranklin] Mohler, William A. [lexander] Mohler, and D.
[ouglas] C. [alvin] Mohler of
Bedford; Mrs. R. [euben] W. Young
[Sarah Ann] of Shenandoah and Henry
Mohler of Kansas City, Mo. The brothers acted as pallbearers, a
nephew Frank Mohler, taking
the place of the brother who could not be present.
[Mohler, Christopher
Columbus]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday March 5, 1936 p. 4
Mohler Funeral Sunday Afternoon
Funeral
services for C. [hristopher] C. [olumbus] Mohler, 95, who died at the Mrs. Besco hospital-home in
Bedford Wednesday, Feb. 26, were held at the Presbyterian Church Sunday
afternoon, conducted by Rev. Robert Boshen. Burial was in the Fairview cemetery.
Christopher
C. [olumbus] Mohler, eldest son
of [John] Leonard and Lucinda Pletcher Mohler, was born Nov. 5, 1840, near Zanesville, Ohio.
He
moved with his parents to Bedford, Taylor County, Iowa, in the spring of 1856
and settled on a farm two and a half miles east of Bedford, where he grew to
manhood.
He
enlisted as a volunteer in the Civil War in Co. D, 46th Iowa
Infantry and was mustered out at the close of the war. He was the last of the civil war
veterans in Bedford.
Sept.
15, 1865 he was married to Martha E. [llen] John and soon after their marriage they settled on the
farm east of Bedford which was their home until after the death of Mrs.
Mohler in 1917, after which Mr.
Mohler moved to Bedford.
To
them were born six children, four girls and two boys. They are Ettie [Etta] M.[ay] Gibson of Osceola, Frank [lin] J. [ohn] Mohler and Gertrude [Alice] Barr of Bedford.
Also Fannie, who died
in infancy; Hattie J. Dowis
and Homer Mohler, both of whom
died in 1906.
Surviving
with the three children are thirteen grandchildren, all of whom were present at
the funeral services with one exception, Mrs. C. E. Prescott of Passaic, N. J., and eighteen great
grandchildren. Also three brothers,
John F. [ranklin] Mohler, Wm. A. [lexander] Mohler, and Douglas C. [alvin] Mohler, all of Bedford.
Mr.
Mohler united with the Presbyterian Church in Bedford in 1878 and served as a
deacon for many years.
Bedford Free Press
Thursday April 12, 1906 p. 4
Homer C. Mohler
Homer
C. Mohler [Harris Homer] was born in Taylor County, Iowa, twenty-seven
years ago, making his home during this time on the farm with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. [hristopher] C. [olumbus] Mohler just east of town. He
died at the Union Station at Kansas City Sunday evening while enroute home.
Last
winter it was realized that his system would not withstand this climate and
about the first of the year he went to Orogrande, N. M. to try the effects of a
higher and drier climate. The
realization of his hopeless condition was soon brought to him however and he
wished to spend his last moments at home and accordingly started back. His father went to Kansas City to meet
him, not realizing how serious his condition was, but by a sad circumstance
death arrived before the meeting.
The
remains were brought to Bedford Tuesday and the funeral will be held at the
home at 10 oÕclock this morning, conducted by Rev. R. L. Barackman. Interment will be had in Fairview
cemetery.
The
Kansas City Journal of April
10 has the following to say regarding the sad death:
The
father of Homer C. Mohler, the
young man who died unidentified Sunday night at the Union depot, was asleep at
the time of his sonÕs death in a hotel not a hundred feet from the spot where
his boy breathed his last.
C.
[hristopher] C. [olumbus] Mohler,
the father, who had come to Kansas City to meet his son, to take him home to
Bedford, Ia., did not hear of the boyÕs death until late yesterday afternoon,
when the depot authorities learned that he was waiting at the station, and by
calling his name attracted his attention to the bureau of information, where he
was told that the boy, whom he had waited two days to meet, was dead. The father is a well-to-do farmer, and
a director of the Bedford National Bank.
Young
Mohler, who was a passenger on the Rock Island Golden State Limited Sunday
night, died at the depot from exhaustion, shortly after the train arrived at
10:30 oÕclock. He was not
identified until yesterday morning when his trunk was examined by the coroner
at Eylar Bros.Õ undertaking rooms.
In the trunk letters were found establishing his identity and revealing
the name of his father. A telegram
was sent at once to the father at Bedford, and late in the afternoon an answer
was received here signed by the boyÕs mother, saying that the father was then
waiting at the Union depot for the boy.
Depot Master Bell was then asked to find the elder Mohler, which he did
by calling his name in the waiting room.
When told that his son, for whom he had been waiting since 4 oÕclock
Sunday afternoon, was dead, Mohler became almost hysterical.
ÒDonÕt
tell me that,Ó he exclaimed, Òwhen I had come to Kansas City for the very
purpose of meeting him before he died.
He has been ill with consumption for some time and for the last year and
a half he had been living in New Mexico.
Last week he decided to come home, as he was getting no better, for he
wished to see his mother before he died.
I came this far to meet him, as I feared that he would not last through
the long journey. Now that has
failed. And to think that I was here
when he died and did not know it.Ó
There
were few dry eyes in the little crowd that gathered around the father as he
told this story to the depot officials.
As soon as he became calm, he was taken to the undertaking rooms, where
he identified his sonÕs body. He
will leave with the body this morning for Bedford, where interment will be
made.
ÒI
arrived in Kansas City about 4 oÕclock Sunday afternoon and had expected to
meet my son on a Rock Island train that arrives here about 9 oÕclock,Ó said Mr.
Mohler. ÒI met this train, but
Homer was not aboard, and, being told by a depot attachŽ that all the Rock
Island trains from the west were in for the night, I went over to the Blossom
house and went to bed.Ó From what
I have learned since I find that my son died right in the depot, not twenty
minutes after I had left.
Yesterday morning I came over early and had been meeting all the Rock
Island trains during the day that I thought might bring my boy. At the time I was found by the depot
master I was just getting ready to send a dispatch home to find if Homer had
arrived there.
My
boy has always been delicate and once before spent three years in Old Mexico
for his health. He came home then,
and for some time we thought that he was cured, but becoming worse, two winters
ago, we sent him West again. This
time he grew worse and was really on his way home to die. He had often expressed a wish to pass
his last moments on earth by the side of his mother, and he was coming home for
that purpose.Ó
Young
Mohler would have been 27 years old on his next birthday. He is survived by his father and
mother, three sisters and one brother.
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday October 15, 1953 [p . 1]
Mrs. D. M. Gibson Dies In Osceola
Mrs.
D. [aniel] M. [illard] Gibson [Etta May], a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. C. [hristopher] C. [olumbus]
Mohler of Bedford, died last week
and funeral services for her were held in Osceola Sunday. Burial was also at Osceola.
Attending
the last rites from Bedford were her brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Mohler; her sister and husband, Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Barr [Gertrude Alice]; Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Bristow, Shirley and
Norma; Mr. and Mrs. Max Lucas.
Also
attending were Mrs. B. O. Eighmy
of Rockford, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Carrol Briggs of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday August 19, 1965 p. 8
Mrs. Henry Barr Rites Aug. 16
Funeral
services for Mrs. Henry (Gertrude) Barr, former Bedford resident, were held Aug. 16 at the Walker Funeral
Home in Clarinda, conducted by Rev. John D. Kerr. Mrs. Barr
died at the Gillespie Nursing Home on Aug. 14, 1965. Interment was at the Clarinda Cemetery.
Gertrude
Alice Mohler Barr was born on a
farm three miles east of Bedford on September 22, 1885. She was the daughter of Martha
{Ellen John] and [Christopher] Columbus Mohler.
She
was the youngest of a family of six, all of whom have passed away. Fannie died in infancy, Mrs. Hattie Dowis and Homer in 1906, Mrs. Etta Gibson in 1953, and Frank in
1964.
In
1900 she made public her faith in Jesus Christ and joined the Presbyterian
Church of Bedford and was a member at the time of her death. She attended regularly as long as her
health permitted. She was a very
active member of the WomenÕs Association, having served as secretary-treasurer
and later as president for quite some time. She wrote a history of her church with the names of all the
ministers up to that time and the pictures of many of them. This history is now in the church
parlor.
On
December 24, 1913, she was united in marriage with Henry E. [lias] Barr of rural Clarinda in the same home in which she
was born, by the late Rev. John A. Currie.
She
was a kind and loving wife and never spoke an unkind word about anyone.
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday December 17, 1964 p. 3
Henry E. Barr Rites Dec. 9
Funeral
services for Henry E. [lias] Barr,
formerly of Bedford, held Dec. 12 at Walker Funeral Home in Clarinda, were
conducted by Rev. John D. Kerr. Mr.
Barr died Dec. 9 at his brotherÕs
(Louis) home. Interment was at the Clarinda cemetery.
Henry
E. [lias] Barr was born Nov. 8,
1880 and died December 9, 1964, at the age of 84 years and one month. He was the oldest son of Franklin P. [ierce] and Flora M. (Painter) Barr. He spent his early
life near Clarinda and attended the Clarinda Public Schools, graduating from
high school in 1910.
On
Christmas Eve 1913, he was united in marriage with Gertrude A. [lice]
Mohler, who survives him. Their married life was spent at Bedford
and Clarinda, where he engaged in farming until retirement.
At
an early age he united with the Methodist Church in Clarinda but transferred
his church affiliation to the Presbyterian Church at Bedford, where his wife
held membership. He was an elder
in the Presbyterian Church for several years.
Surviving
are his wife, Gertrude, two
brothers, Edwin and Louis and a sister, Lillian.
[Mohler, Franklin John
ÒFrankÓ]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday May 28, 1964 [p. 1]
Frank Mohler Rites Wednesday
Funeral services for Frank
[lin] John Mohler, long time
Taylor County resident, were held yesterday (Wednesday) at the Bedford
Presbyterian Church, with Rev. John D. Kerr officiating. Mr. Mohler died May 25 at Clarinda Municipal hospital. Interment was at Fairview Cemetery,
Bedford, Iowa.
[Mohler, Franklin John
ÒFrankÓ]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday June 4, 1964 p. 3
Final Rites For Frank
J. Mohler Held May 27
Funeral
services for Frank [lin] John Mohler, 89, life time Taylor County resident, held May 27 at the Bedford
Presbyterian church, were conducted by Rev. John D. Kerr. Mr. Mohler died May 25 at Clarinda Municipal Hospital. Interment was at Fairview Cemetery,
Bedford.
Included
in the services was the following obituary:
Frank
[lin] John Mohler, son of C.
[hristopher] C. [olumbus] and Martha [Ellen John] Mohler, was born on June 25, 1874 in Taylor County,
Iowa.
On
November 29, 1905, he was united in marriage to Carrie L. [uella] Williams of Bedford, Iowa. The majority of their years were spent on the home farm,
east of Bedford, until retiring from farming in 1947, at which time they moved
to Bedford.
To
this union were born six children:
Mrs. Lucille Eighmy of
Rockford, Ill., Mrs. Marjorie Bristow, Bedford, Mrs. Dorothy Lucas, Bedford; Mrs. Virginia Briggs, Cedar Rapids; Paul Mohler, Luverne, Minn., and Howard Mohler of Carroll.
Mr.
Mohler is survived by his wife, six children, 13 grandchildren, 12 great
grandchildren, and one sister, Gertrude Barr, of Clarinda.
He
united with the First Presbyterian church of Bedford, Iowa, in 1900, where he
was a faithful member and attended regularly as long as his health permitted.
He
loved his wife and family as he loved nature and out of doors. He was upright and keen of mind until
the end, and for this his family will be forever grateful.
Relatives
from out of town attending services for Frank Mohler were Lucille Eighmy, Dick Eighmy and Martha Eighmy, Rockford, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Briggs,
Dennis Briggs, and Robert
Bristow, Cedar Rapids; Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Mohler, Dave Mohler and
Mike Mohler, Luverne, Minn.; Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Mohler and Linda
Mohler, Carroll; Mr. and Mrs.
John Guenther and Lynn
Guenther, Jefferson; Mr. and
Mrs. Don Lucas, Ames; Larry
Mohler, Clarinda, Frank
Gibson, Don Gibson and Mrs. L.
Foster, Osceola.
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday December 11, 1941 [p. 1]
MaloyÕs Oldest Lady, Mrs.
M. C. Shay, Dies
One
of MaloyÕs oldest citizens, Mrs. M. [ichael] C. [hauncey] Shay, died Tuesday evening at her home in Maloy. Mrs. Shay [Ellen Mullin], who was 79 years of age, had been in failing
health for some time.
She
is survived by her husband, one son, Dennis R.; one grandson, Dennis R. Jr.; three granddaughters, Mrs. Richard Monahan of Chicago; Mrs. Arnold Parks of Marshalltown, Miss Kathryn Jane Shay of Des Moines; and four great grandchildren.
Funeral
services were held Friday morning at 9:30 oÕclock in the Immaculate Conception
Church in Maloy conducted by the Rev. M. J. Culhane. Interment was in the Saint MaryÕs cemetery.---Mount Ayr
Record-News.
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday December 11, 1941 [p. 1]
Miss Eva Clark Dies
Miss
Eva Clark, who has visited in
Bedford on many occasions, died
at her home in Clarinda Tuesday.
The funeral services were held in Clarinda today, Thursday. Miss Clark was an aunt of Miss Vesta Clark and Mrs. Lester Thompson [Pearl Clark] of Bedford.
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday December 26, 1974 p. 2
Mrs. John Lacy Last Rites Held December 24
Funeral
services for Mrs. John Lacy,
77, of Bedford, were held Tues., Dec. 24, at Shum-Novinger Funeral Home with
Rev. C. Ray McCain officiating. Mrs.
Lacy [Velma Ann Killam] died at her home in Bedford December 22. Interment was at Fairview Cemetery
here.
Included
among her survivors are her husband, John; son, Darwin Lacy,
of Bedford, and two daughters, Florene Potter of New Market, Doris Jeffers of Bedford and Darlene Killam of Hopkins.
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday January 2, 1975 p. 3
Last Rites Held
December 24 For Mrs. John Lacy
Funeral
services for Mrs. John (Velma) Lacy,
77, of Bedford, held December 24 at Shum-Novinger Funeral Home in Bedford, were
conducted by Rev. C. Ray McCain. Mrs.
Lacy died in her home in Bedford
December 22, 1974. Interment was
at Fairview Cemetery, Bedford.
Velma
Ann Lacy, daughter of Herbert
Walter Killam and Clara Ann Shelman,
was born in Nodaway County, Missouri, on May 5, 1897. She grew to womanhood in the area where she was born. She joined the Methodist Church at an
early age, and transferred to the Bedford Christian Church after marriage,
where she was a loyal member.
On
February 15, 1920, she was united in marriage to John Lacy, and in 1970 they were privileged to celebrate
their Golden Wedding Anniversary.
To this union were born four children, Phyllis, Darwin, Doris, and
Florene. They lived on a farm south of Bedford
until 1943 when they moved to town and where they have continued to reside.
She
was preceded in death by her parents; one sister, Edythe Allison, and three brothers, Keith, Nelson and Will
Killam. Left to cherish her loving memories are her husband, John;
Phyllis [Eileen] and husband, Buford Holman, of Independence, Mo.; Darwin and wife, Bernice [Blair] Lacy, of Bedford; Doris [Wanda] and husband, Dennis Jeffers, of Siam; and Florene
and husband, Francis Potter,
of New Market, Ia.; six grandchildren, Donna Kay Holman Weakley and husband, Tom, of Bates City, Mo.; Lyle Holman and wife, Linda, of Independence, Mo.; Wanda Jean Holman of Liberty, Mo.; Tana [Elaine] Lacy Ross and husband, Richard, of Kansas City, Mo.; Brenda Ann Lacy Ton, and husband, Paul, of Fresno, Calif.; and Debra Lynn Potter of New Market; four great grandchildren, Andy
and Danny Weakley, and Carrie
Jo and Jamie Lynn Ross; one
sister, Mary Nicholson, of
Maryville, Mo.; two brothers, Ross Killam of Hopkins, Mo., and Lloyd Killam of Tujunga, Calif.; a host of nephews and nieces.
She
was a kind and loving wife and mother and will be sadly missed by all who knew
her.
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday May 8, 1975 p. 4
Final Rites Held May 6
For John Lacy, 82
Funeral
services for John Cleveland Lacy,
82, of Bedford, were held May 6 at Shum-Novinger Funeral Home in Bedford,
conducted by Rev. C. Ray McCain and Carl Cummings. Mr. Lacy
died in Rosary Hospital in Corning May 4, 1975. Interment was at Fairview Cemetery, Bedford.
[McKinley, Francis
Garrett ÒMacÓ]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday December 26, 1974 p. 2
F. G. McKinley Dies In Calif.
Funeral
services for Francis Garrett (Mac) McKinley, 70, of Sebastopol, Calif., former superintendent
of schools in Conway and Dunkerton, Ia., were held November 27 at SebastopolÕs
United Methodist Church with the Rev. Wallace Riches officiating. Mr. McKinley died November 24. Inurnment followed at Sebastopol Evergreen Lawn.
Mr.
McKinley was a member of the
Sebastopol City Council from 1964 to 1968 and served as mayor in 1966. Recently he had been a trustee of
Sebastopol Area Housing Corporation.
From 1952 to 1969 he was business manager of Annally Union High School
District.
Mr.
McKinley was secretary of
SebastopolÕs Masonic Lodge 126 and a past patrol of SebastopolÕs Order of
Eastern Star Chapter 161.
He
is survived by his wife, Margaret;
a son, James, of San Rafael,
and three grandchildren.
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday December 26, 1974 p. 2
Last Rites Held
December 22 For Frank Stingley
Funeral
services for William Frank Stingley,
92, of Bedford, were held December 22 at Shum-Novinger Funeral Home in Bedford
with Carl Cummings officiating. Mr. Stingley died December 19, 1974, at St. Francis Hospital,
Maryville, Mo. Interment was at
Clearfield Cemetery, Clearfield, Ia.
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday January 2, 1975 p. 3
Frank Stingley, 92, Last Rites Held December 22
Funeral
services for William Frank Stingley,
92, of Bedford, were held December 22 at Shum-Novinger Funeral Home in Bedford
with Carl Cummings officiating. Mr.
Stingley died December 19 at
Saint Francis Hospital in Maryville, Mo.
Interment was at Clearfield Cemetery, Clearfield, Ia.
William
Frank Stingley, son of Alfred
and Amanda Owens Stingley, was
born September 12, 1882, at Sheridan, Mo.
He
grew to maturity in the community where he was reared and as a young man went
to South Dakota, returning to take Nona Porter as his life partner January 18, 1910, being
united in marriage at the home of the brideÕs parents at Clearfield, Iowa.
They
lived in So. Dakota a few years, returning to the Clearfield area where they
farmed until they purchased and moved to their farm in the East Mission
neighborhood east of Bedford. They
lived here until retiring and moving to Bedford, where he has since continued
to reside.
Three
daughters were born to bless their home and to share their love.
He
was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Nona, who died December 6, 1967, and one
granddaughter, who died in infancy.
Left
to cherish his memory are his daughters:
Ruth and her husband, Rue
Nickle, of Clearfield, Ia.; Helen and her husband, Loyd Welch, of Kansas City, Mo.; and Leota and her husband, Tom Hunt, of Kansas City, Mo.; seven grandchildren; nine
great grandchildren; one sister, Mable, who lives in Creston, Ia.; other relatives and many friends.
He
was a member of the Bedford United Methodist Church and the Masonic Lodge.
He
was a kind and considerate husband, father, friend and neighbor, and he will be
sadly missed by all who knew and loved him.