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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1907
Page
5
Local notes report travels of W F Hints and W F Bingham business moves, church Lenten observance, sales at Deutrick, and a variety of community items. Shown also: potato market, post office notices, funerals, school events, and Tec Jones county telephones franchise concerns.
The community notes the death of William H. Parrott after nearly fifty years among them. Burns Lodge No. 173 offers sympathy to his widow and trusts she will be sustained by a higher power until reunion beyond mortality. Com. J A Voorhees B S Farwell J B Houser. Farmers note: butchering service offered by Suter in Monticello Iowa. contact by phone or visit.
William Henry Parrott died at his Monticello home on the morning of the 8th, after a two month illness. He was a long time jeweler in Monticello, born in Philadelphia 1838, married Laura Bing ham, survived by his widow and no children. Funeral at Congregational church with Masonic rites. burial at Oakwood.
Mrs. Mary Webber widow of Frank J. Webber died suddenly at her Monticello home last Saturday. Physicians attributed the death to apoplexy as she had been in good health and showed no prior heart disease. Funeral services set for 10 a.m. at Sacred Heart church. She was born Mary Linden in 1838 in Luxemburg and married in 1866 at Dubuque. She leaves surviving children in Denver, Wenatchee, and Phyolite along with several deceased siblings and a long life of faithful church devotion.
Mrs. Ann Ross a 76 year old resident of Wayne township died at her Monticello area home last Saturday after a prolonged illness. Struck by paralysis three weeks earlier she remained homebound and speechless. Funeral services were held at her late residence on Tuesday led by Rev. J W Innes with interment to follow.
The obituary records Stephen Batchelder aged about 87 who died January 11 in Chicago after a long life in Jones county. He lived near Langworthy from 1850, spent years in California, then with his Edson relatives in Chicago before dying at The Home for Incurables. Funeral services were held in Chicago before burial in Monticello.
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