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Recorded Deaths


Source: Ancestry.com Iowa, U.S. Death Records, 1880 - 1968
NAMEDOD
AGE
As Reported by State Hospital:
1) Principle Cause of Death
2) Contributory Cause Not Related to Principle Cause
Additonal Information
Richard A. Williams7-6-1936
62 yrs, 9 mos, 24 days old
1) Generalized Arteriosclerosis
2) Coronary Sclerosis
Born 9-12-1873 in New York
Occ: Salesman
Widowed
Residence: Sioux City, IA
Was in State  Hospital for 17 days
Burial: Logan Park Cemetery
William H. Catherman7-14-1936
61 yrs, 9 days old
1) Heat Exhaustion & Malnutrition
2) Dementia Praecox, Catatonic
Born (unknown) in PA
Occ: Farmer
Single
Res: Plymouth, Cerro Gordo County, IA
Was in State Hospital for 33 years
Burial: Hospital Cemetery (Beacon Hollow) on 7-15-1936
Axel Christianson7-11-1936
71 yrs old
1) Bronchopneumonia & Heat congestion
2) Dementia praecox
Born (unknown) in Norway
Occ: Laborer
Single
Res: Unknown
Burial: Hospital Cemetery on 7-13-1936
Lydia Curtis7-11-1936
73 yrs, 7 mos, 1 day
1) Cerebral hemorrhage with senility
2) Senile psychosis, depressed 9 yrs
Born 12-10-1862 in Kentucky
Occ: Housewife
Widow
Res: Webster City, IA
Was in State Hospital for 8 yrs
Burial: Graceland Cemetery, Webster City, IA
Mary Wilder7-19-1936
67 yrs, 9 mos, 12 days
1) Heat exhaustion & malnutrition
2) Senile psychosis, senile type
Born 10-17-1868 in Iowa
Occ: House duties
Widow
Was in State Hospital for 2 mos.
Res: Dow City, IA
Burial: Dow City, IA
Frank Pate7-17-1936
67 yrs, 9 mos, 23 days old
1) Septisemia due to chronic varicose infected ulcer on left leg
2) Pre-senile psychosis
Born 9-21-1868 in Nashville, TN
Occ:Machinist
Single
Was in State Hospital for 3 mos
Res: Sioux City, IA
Burial: Removed to Iowa City, IA
Lucille Hugland1-16-1936
43 yrs, 6 mos, 28 days
1) Pulmonary Tuberculosis
2) Dementia praecox
Born: 6-18-1892 in Iowa
Occ: Clerk
Single
Was in State Hospital for 5 yrs.
Res: Sioux City, IA
Burial:
Luella Foster1-29-1936
24 yrs, 1 mo, 5 days
1) Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Born 12-24-1936 in Iowa
Occ: None
Single
Was in State Hospital for 17 days
Res: Fort Dodge, IA
Burial: Fort Dodge, IA
Jack Powell1-2-1936
53 yrs, 2 mos, 17 days
1) Pulmonary Abcess Tubular
2) Dementia Praecox, Paranoid
Born 10-15-1882 in Alba Creek, CA
Occ: Laborer
Single
Was in State Hospital for 2 yrs
Res: N. Dakota
Burial: Iowa City, IA
George Leitz1-7-1936
54 yrs, 7 mo, 10 days
1) Pulmonary Tuberculosis
2) Psychosis with mental deficiency
Born 5-27-1881 in Wall Lake, IA
Occ: Laborer
Single
Was in State Hospital for 2 yrs
Res: Wall Lake, IA
Burial: Wall Lake, IA
Sadie Johnson7-5-1936
62 yrs old
1) Miliary Tuberculosis of lungs
2) Dementia praecox
Born 1874 in  Sweden
Occ: Housewife
Divorced
Was in State Hospital for 28 yrs
John Renshaw7-12-1936
55 yrs, 6 mos, 21 days
1) General Paralysis of the insane & Heat congestionBorn 12-21-1881 in Storm Lake, IA
Occ:Laborer
Divorced
Res: Sioux City, IA
Burial: Hospital Cemetery 7-15-1936
William Bristole7-20-1936
About 75 yrs old
1) Broncho pneumonia, chronic valvular heart disease, cystitis
2) Dementia praecox
Born (unknown)
Occ: Farm Laborer
Res: Unknown
Was in State Hospital for 47 years
Burial: Removed to Iowa City, IA
Sigrid Larson7-9-1936
30 yrs, 3 mos, 20 days
1) Thrombosis in right ventricle & auricle with acute congestion of lungs
2) manic depressive - manic
Born 3-19-1906 in Ft. Dodge, IA
Occ: House wife
Married
Residence: Ft. Dodge, IA
Burial
: Ft. Dodge, IA
Mary Mulert7-9-1936
80 yrs old
1) Thrombosis of right auricle; Malnutrition
2) Senile psychosis - Simple Scrofula
Born in 1856 in the Netherlands
Widow
Residence: Orange City, IA
Burial: Orange City, IA
Harriet Huffman7-23-1936
82 yrs old
1) Broncho pneumonia
2) Senile psychosis; Simple deterioration
Born 1854 in IL
Widow
Residence: Correctionville, IA
Was in State Hospital for 7 years
Burial: Correctionville, IA
William J. Lee7-3-1936
68 yrs, 3 mos, 22 days
1) Bronchial pneumonia
2) Dementia praecox - Paranoid
Born 3-11-1868 in WI
Married
Occ: Farmer
Residence: Danbury, IA
Was in State Hospital for 6 yrs
Burial (illegible)
Lydia Freese7-17-1936
67 yrs, 7 mos, 27 days
1) Thrombus in each auricle & embolism in lung
2) Psychosis with mental deficiency
Born: 11-20-1868 in Harrington, IA
Single
Residence: Nora Springs, IA
Was in State Hospital for 9 yrs, 10 mos.
Burial: Nora Springs, IA
Clarence Iseminger7-14-1936
64 yrs, 9 mos, 5 days
1) Broncho pneumonia & heat exhaustion
2) Senile psychosis & malnutrition
Born 10-9-1871
Married
Occ: Farmer
Res: Rolfe, IA
Was in State Hospital for 1 yr, 7 mos.
Burial: Plover, IA (illegiblee)
John H. Robinson7-10-1936
61 yrs, 2 mos, 2 days
1) Heat Exhaustion; Malnutrition
2) Psychosis with Cerebral Arteriosclerosis
Born 5-10-1875 in Texas
Married
Occ: State Engineer
Res:Sioux City, IA
Burial: Hospital Cemetery 7-13-1936
Roy B. Dixon7-5-1936
61 yrs, 3 mo, 4 days
1) Heat exhaustion
2) Involutional depression & malnutrition
Born 3-31-1875 in Iowa
Married
Occ: Laborer
res Gowrie, IA
Was in State Hospital for 2 mos
Burial: Gowrie, IA
Mary Meyers7-14-1936
75 yrs old
1) Heat Exhaustion; Broncho pneumonia
2) Senile psychosis
Born 5-18-1861 in Brooklyn, IA
Widow
Res: Belmond, IA
Burial: Belmond, IA
Elva Heid (Godwin)7-12-1936
43 yrs, 11 mos, 27 days
1) cerebral hemorrage after heat congestion
2) psychosis with mental deficiency
Born 7-15-1892 in Calhoun County, IA
divorced
Res: Rinard, IA
Was in State Hospital for 2 years
Burial: Cedar Cemetery, Rinard, IA
Etta Taylor7-19-1936
70 yrs, 7 mos, 5 days
1) Heat Exhaustion & Malnutrition
2) senile psychosis; Simple deterioration
Born 12-15-1865 in Spirit Lake, IA
Widow
Was in State Hospital for 4 years
Burial: Alta, IA
Lars Askelman7-27-1936
58 yrs, 7 mos, 11 days
1) Broncho pneumonia & Panopthalmitis
2) Senile psychosis - simple deterioration
Born 12-16-1877 in Iowa
Married
Occ: Farmer
res: Mason City, IA
Was in State Hospital for 1 yr, 11 mos
Burial: Mason City, IA
William Wichander7-21-1936
27 yrs old
1) Pneumonia bronchial lung abcess
2) Dementia praecox; Catatonic type
Born 1909
Single
Laborer
Res: Armstrong, IA
Pauline Dibbern7-14-1936
73 yrs, 3 mos, 17 days
1) Heat Exhaustion
2) Manin Depressive psychosis
Born 3-27-1863 in Germany
Res: Galva, IA
Widow
Burial: Galva, IA





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