MALOY, IOWA CENTENNIAL HISTORY: 1887 - 1987
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DEDICATIONS
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IN TRIBUTE TO GRANDMA JENNINGS
Her name was Etta, but many knew her as Ettie or Grandma JENNINGS. She was the wife of Robert Lee JENNINGS and
the mother of ten children and grandmother to many. She was a kind and gentle woman whose thoughts were
often for others. In the early 30's although no one had much of anything and the cupboards were often pretty
bare, she always made do and never complained. The greatest legacy she left for me was her strong faith. This
brave woman smiled when others would have cried,a nd at no time did she ever have an unkind word for her fellow
man. Her one great joy was her old battery radio turned to the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday nights. She
could sing along with the best of 'em. Grandma JENNINGS was called home to rest in the the late 50's at
the nursing home north of Mount Ayr. She was a tribute to Maloy, and everyone who knew her. Of course I
could be partial. She was my Grandma JENNINGS.
~ Submitted by Phyllis Jennings Ballenger
The committee gratefully acknowledges this tribute accompanied by a generous $100 donation in Mrs. JENNINGS'
name from Phyllis and her husband, Don.
SPECIAL THANKS TO MILDRED SHAY
A special thank you to Mildred SHAY -- for her generous financial contribution, her interest in our project,
and the patient perusal of century-old newspapers and documents that reveal so much of "the way it was."
HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY, MALOY!
SOURCE: Maloy, Iowa Centennial History: 1887 - 1987 p. 208. 1987.
Courtesy of Mount Ayr Public Library
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2011
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