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RITES HELD FOR MRS. GRACE YOUNT
Grace Florence Yount, daughter of the Rev. Lewis A. and Mary Crull, was born Nov. 22, 1880 in Scioto county, Ohio and died at her home in Olympia, Wash. Sept. 23, 1970, at the age of 89 years, 10 mos. As a child she lived in Kansas and Oklahoma but when a young girl she moved with her parents to Iowa.
While teaching in the Hartwick school she met Allen L. Yount, to whom she was married on Feb. 23, 1908. To this union were born six children, five of whom survive. The family farmed near Hartwick until 1920 at which time they moved to Brooklyn where Mr. Yount was a rural mail carrier. Following his death in 1936 she continued to make her home in Brooklyn.
She was a lifelong member of the Methodist church and for many years taught the Miriam Sunday school class until her move to Olympia in 1951.
She is survived by three sons and two daughters, Fred A. Yount of Brooklyn, Mrs. P.H. (Ruth) Hammen of Des Moines, Mrs. Floyd J. (Edith) Kriegel and Claude A. Yount of Olympia, Wash. and Lewis C. Yount of Bellevue, Wash., 13 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. She is also survived by two sisters, two nieces and a number of nephews.
Memorial services were held in the chapel of the First United Methodist church in Olympia Sept. 25 followed by cremation. Graveside committal rites were held at the I.O.O.F. cemetery in Brooklyn on Oct. 3 in charge of the Rev. Lester C. Hall of Montezuma, a friend of the family, assisted by Rev. J. Arthur Eveland of Brooklyn and Mrs. Yount's grandson, Rev. Donald Hammen of Kansas City.
Source: http://iagenweb.org/boards/poweshiek/obituaries/index.cgi
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RITES HELD FOR MRS. GRACE YOUNT
Grace Florence Yount, daughter of the Rev. Lewis A. and Mary Crull, was born Nov. 22, 1880 in Scioto county, Ohio and died at her home in Olympia, Wash. Sept. 23, 1970, at the age of 89 years, 10 mos. As a child she lived in Kansas and Oklahoma but when a young girl she moved with her parents to Iowa.
While teaching in the Hartwick school she met Allen L. Yount, to whom she was married on Feb. 23, 1908. To this union were born six children, five of whom survive. The family farmed near Hartwick until 1920 at which time they moved to Brooklyn where Mr. Yount was a rural mail carrier. Following his death in 1936 she continued to make her home in Brooklyn.
She was a lifelong member of the Methodist church and for many years taught the Miriam Sunday school class until her move to Olympia in 1951.
She is survived by three sons and two daughters, Fred A. Yount of Brooklyn, Mrs. P.H. (Ruth) Hammen of Des Moines, Mrs. Floyd J. (Edith) Kriegel and Claude A. Yount of Olympia, Wash. and Lewis C. Yount of Bellevue, Wash., 13 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. She is also survived by two sisters, two nieces and a number of nephews.
Memorial services were held in the chapel of the First United Methodist church in Olympia Sept. 25 followed by cremation. Graveside committal rites were held at the I.O.O.F. cemetery in Brooklyn on Oct. 3 in charge of the Rev. Lester C. Hall of Montezuma, a friend of the family, assisted by Rev. J. Arthur Eveland of Brooklyn and Mrs. Yount's grandson, Rev. Donald Hammen of Kansas City.
Source: http://iagenweb.org/boards/poweshiek/obituaries/index.cgi
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