Wolfe, Jesse L. – 1913-1992

ALEXANDER, BURNS, LESHER, MCKINNEY, REPP, WOLFE

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Date: 11/16/2010 at 10:53:56

Jesse L. Wolfe, 78, of Mingo, a former Prairie City resident, died of cancer Saturday, May 2, 1992 at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.
Funeral services were held Monday, May 4 at Wallace-Pence Funeral Home in Newton. The Rev. Robert Hinshaw, pastor of the Ashton Chapel north of Mingo, conducted the services. Burial was in McKeever Cemetery north of Colfax.
Memorials to the American Cancer Society are being accepted.
Survivors are his wife, Dorothy; a son, Ora L. “Buck” Wolfe of Newton; two daughters, Betty (Mrs. Gerald) Repp and Dixie (Mrs. Larry) McKinney, both of Newton; eight grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers, George and Loren, and a sister, Bessie Alexander.
Mr. Wolfe had been a farmer in Missouri. He began construction work in 1961, working for Hank Ostlin and Bert Breen Construction Co., and worked at the Maytag Co. in Newton during 1969. He attended Ashton Chapel.
The son of George and Anna Lesher Wolfe, he was born July 28, 1913 in Unionville, Missouri, and attended country school in Missouri.
He was married to Dorothy Gail Burns April 6, 1939 in Unionville, Missouri.
Mr. Wolfe had been a resident of Jasper County since 1961, and had lived in Prairie City for eight years.
Source: Prairie City (IA) News; May 7, 1992