Woodworth, J.M. 1801-1931

WOODWORTH, COOPER, HENDERSON, BRITNALL, WHITMAN

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Date: 10/22/2012 at 10:48:46

The Grinnell (IA) Herald; Jan. 2, 1931

MR. WOODWORTH
IS MOURNED
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Former Respected Resident of Grin-
nell Dies Suddenly In Garden
Grove, Calif.
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WAS PRESIDENT OF FIRST
NATIONAL BANK THERE.
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During Residence Here Mr. Wood-
worth Was Credit Manager For
Spaulding Mfg. Co.
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J.M. Woodworth whose sudden death last Sunday morning at his home in Garden Grove, Calif., was announced in Tuesday's Herald was a useful and much respected citizen of Grinnell during his residence here as credit manager for the Spaulding Manufacturing Company. For a time he was also with the Grinnell Savings Bank. An experienced banker Mr. Woodworth brought to his work an ability and a wide acquaintance which made him a valuable man for the company and his fine family entered helpfully into many community activities. He was 69 years old.

Mr. Woodworth was a native of New York state, where he was born June 17, 1861. He was a small boy when the family moved to Winthrop, where he was reared and as a young man became a telegrapher. While employed at Iowa Falls he met Miss Mary Cooper, who became his wife. Mrs. Woodworth survives her husband as do two daughters and two sons: Mrs. Frank Henderson (Bertha) of Burbank, Calif., Miss Mabel Woodworth, an instructor in music in the University of Southern California in Los Angeles; Robert, who is with the Fairbanks-Morse Company at Los Angeles and Arthur with the First National Bank at Garden Grove. Another son, Willard Casper died May 26, 1898, at the age of eighteen months, while the family was living in Marshalltown. Mr. Woodworth is survived also by two sisters, Mrs. H.G. Britnall of Marshalltown and Mrs. John Whitman in Le Mars.

Before coming to Grinnell Mr. Woodworth had had valuable experience in banking. He came to Marshalltown from Iowa Falls, where he was employed by the Illinois Central Railway Company and became cashier of the Commercial State Bank. From Marshalltown the family moved to Perry, where Mr. Woodworth also had a banking connection and from Perry to Grinnell. When he moved to California Mr. Woodworth returned to banking and was president of the First National Bank of Garden Grove at the time of his death.