Barrens, Joseph Denison -

Joseph Denison, son of Thomas and Sarah Barrans, was born on Bureau County, Ill., Feb. 9, 1873 and departed this life at

his home in West Clearfield April 25, 1954 at the age of 81 years.

He moved with his family to Lenox in 1874 and grew to manhood there. At an early age he became a member of the Presbyterian church in Lenox. After teaching for a time he became a farmer, later he entered the livery and horse buying business in Clearfield. At all times he was interested in the affairs of his nation and was well informed about its government.

On March 22, 1905 he was united in marriage to Miss Bessie Crew, daughter of James and Viola Crew. To this union

were born 5 children, two dying in infancy. Surviving him are his wife, two daughters, Helen Hicks of Bolckow, Mo., and Barbara Robison of Gaylord, Ore.; one son, Joseph C of Portland, Ore., and 3 grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Christian church. Rev Wm Howes officiated. Burial in Clearfield cemetery.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday May 6, 1954

Bennett, Jennie -

Funeral services were held at the United Presbyterian church in Lenox Saturday at 2 p. m., for Mrs. Jennie Bennett, 81, who died Wednesday at 10:30 p. m., at her home in Atchison, Kan.  Services were held there also before coming to Lenox,

Her husband, Arthur A, Bennett, preceded her in death. She and her husband operated a grocery store and restaurant in Lenox a number of years ago, before moving to Atchison.

Rev. Willard M. Morris was the Minister for the service here. Burial was jn the Lenox cemetery.

Survivors: 2 nephews, David Bennett of Lenox; Don Bennett, Clearfield; 2 nieces, Miss Marie and Miss Flora Bennett, both of Lenox.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday January 21, 1954

Blood, Gaylene -

Graveside services were held in Gravity cemetery Sunday at 2 p. m., for Gaylene, infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Jack

Blood of Sharpsburg, who died at 8 a. m., Saturday. Survivors: Her parents, Mr and Mrs Jack Blood; a twin brother; an older brother and sister. The Bender Funeral Home had charge.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday April 29, 1954

Jacoby, Lee D. -

Relatives here received word of the death of Lee D. Jacoby, of Lees Summit, Mo. on Jan. 17.  Lee was a former resident of Lenox having spent his boyhood here and graduating from Lenox High School.  He was in the clothing store here for many years.  His wife,  the former Effie Beach, 2 sons, 4 daughters and 7 grandchildren survive.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday January 21, 1954

Jacoby, Lee D. -

Lee D. Jacoby was born in Mendota, Ill., March 28, 1880, and passed away at his home in Lee's Summit Mo., Sunday evening at 9:40 o'clock, Jan. 17, 1954 at the age of 73 years, 10 months and 20 days. He was the oldest of two sons of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Jacoby. His brother, Gall died several years ago in Corpus Christi, Tex.

Mr. Jacoby was graduated from the Lenox high school with the class of 1898. After his marriage to Effie J. Beach, daughter of the late George S. and Luella E. Beach of Lenox, la., he engaged in the men's clothing business here for several years, moving to Robstown, Texas in 1910 where he was in the real estate and banking business. In 1922 the family moved to Lee's Summit Mo., where they have since resided. Mr. Jacoby was a highly respected citizen and businessman, and a member of the Masonic Order.

Survivors are his wife, of the home; two sons, Lyle B. of Oklahoma City and William Royce of Casper, Wyo.; four daughters: Mrs. Genevieve Hawkins, Mrs. Alice Acuff both of Lee's Summit; Mrs. Ora Gorrey, Springfield, Pa., and Mrs. Maxine Giles of Kansas City, Mo. Eight grandchildren and one great granddaughter.

Norma Lee preceded her father in death, having passed away at the age of 1 year and 10 months in Texas in 1913.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday January 28, 1954

Kendall, Nona -

John Kendall received word that his mother, Mrs J H Kendall, 82, died Friday morning at her home in Hepburn after a 3

year illness. Survivors: 3 daughters, 2 sons, 8 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. Her husband preceded her in death.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday May 6, 1954

McKee, Effie -

Mrs Minnie Polsley received word Thursday of the death of her aunt, Mrs. Effie McKee, 82, at Marshalltown. Since the age

of 5 she had lived in Creston, where funeral services were held Saturday at 2 p. m. Burial in Graceland cemetery. Mr. McKee preceded her in death Sept. 30, 1952. She is survived by 4 sons and one daughter.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday January 21, 1954

Morris, E. Dale -

Mrs. Blanche Bruington received word Saturday of the death of her son-in-law, E. Dale Morris, 52, on Saturday, Jan. 16

at 8 a. m. at the hospital in Pasadena, Tex. He had formerly lived at Gravity and Clarinda.  Services were Monday p. m.,

in Pasadena with burial there. Survivors: his aged mother, Mrs. Margaret Morris; 2 daughters, Margaret Blanche and Marjorie Jean Morris, all of Pasadena.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday January 21, 1954

Pierson, Fannie Elnora Galigher -

Fannie Elnora, daughter of Urich Nelson and America Jane Galigher was born in Port Byron, Ill.,  Feb. 5, 1861 and passed away at her home here in Gravity April 15, 1954  aged 93 years, 2 months and 10 days.

Shortly after the Civil War the Galigher family came via covered wagon to Page County, Ia., where they lived among pioneer conditions for many years. 

She was married to W. P. Pierson June 20, 1878 at the Galigher home ten miles northwest of Clarinda. They moved to a

farm north of Gravity where they lived for several years later moving to Gravity, living at the present home for over forty years.

Three daughters are left to mourn her passing as well as one grandson, Mrs Flo Swanson of Bedford, Miss June Pierson

of Gravity and Mrs Pearl Reynolds Rice of St Joe, Ark., and one grandson, R R Reynolds of Grand Junction, Colo. One sister-

in-law, Mrs Emma Galigher Carrigan of Hood River, Ore., Miss Tillie Pierson of Red Oak; besides a host of nieces and nephews and a large number of friends. Her husband preceded her in death in June, 1945.

Funeral services at the home were conducted by the Rev Wm J Weber, pastor of the Methodist church. Music: pianist, Mrs

Claude Gray, and soloist Gordon Hill singing Going Home and My Work is Done. Pall bearers: Howard Perdew, Herman McCalla, Kenneth Lock, Kenneth Meyers, Bob Taylor, Max Masters. Interment in Gravity cemetery.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday April 22, 1954

Powell, Lillie -

Mrs Lillie Powell of Conway died Tuesday at University Hospital in Iowa City. The body was brought by J R Crew to the

Crew Funeral Home in Clearfield.  Funeral services were held Sunday in Conway.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday April 22, 1954

Saylor, Lawrence Lyle –

Two persons died as a result of a two car collision four miles south and two miles east of Lenox Saturday afternoon about

2 o'clock. The dead are Mrs. Carl Longfellow, 32, mother of five children, who died before help arrived, and Lawrence Saylor, 37, who died in a Creston hospital at 5:30 p. m. the same afternoon.

Carl Longfellow was treated at the hospital for head injuries and was dismissed Monday. His son Jerry 14, and daughter Alice, 2 1/2 years old, suffered slight injuries. The other three Longfellow children, Paul 12, Linda, 10, and Julia, 6, were riding with their parents, but were not injured.

The Longfellow home is on a farm southeast of Lenox.  Mr. Saylor was alone in his car. He is survived by his widow,

Mildred and two sons, Larry and Wayne.

Sheriff Lucas said the Longfellow car was traveling west and the Saylor car was going south at the corner near the Arlo Beggs farm. The cars were almost total wrecks.  The Longfellow car was on the graveled highway after the collision.  The Saylor car came to rest quite a distance away in a corn field.

Saylor suffered spinal injuries, a crushed pelvis and chest injuries.  An emergency call was made by the Creston hospital

for additional blood from the Red Cross center at Omaha for use in treatment. This was taken by plane of the Iowa-Nebraska civil air patrol, but arrived after Mr. Saylor passed away.

Mr. Saylor had lived in Taylor county all of his life and for the past several years had farmed in the Clearfield area. His

home was one and a half miles southwest of Clearfield. Funeral services for him were held Tuesday at the Methodist

church in Clearfield, with burial in Clearfield cemetery.

Services for Mrs. Longfellow were Wednesday afternoon at the Christian Church at Clearfield, conducted toy Rev. William

Howes. Burial was in Bedford cemetery. Her brothers, Paul Snyder of Alexandria, Va., and Harold Snyder in the navy at

Norfolk, Va., arrived Monday evening.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday January 28, 1954

Simpson, Glen -

Mrs Agnes Bailey received a message Sunday of the death of her uncle, Glen Simpson of Des Moines, a former undertaker in Diagonal. Funeral services were held Wednesday in Des Moines with burial in the Clearfield cemetery.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday April 22, 1954

Sprague, Mrs. Ben -

Mrs. Henry Tieman was called to Creston Monday by the illness of her mother, Mrs Ben Sprague. Mrs. Sprague died Thursday at the Creston hospital. Funeral services were held Sunday in Carbon, Iowa.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday February 25, 1954

Starr, Oscar Walter -

Oscar Walter Starr, son of Maria Minert and Adam Starr, was born Nov 20, 1871 in Montgomery County, southeast of

Villisca, and passed away at the Rosary Hospital in Corning Jan. 17, 1954 at the age of 82 years, 1 month, 27 days. His early life was spent on the farm and his education was received in the rural schools of Montgomery County, la., his last teacher be being the late Dr. J. H. Wallahan of Corning.

On July 1, 1894, he was united in marriage to Lelia Rolston, who preceded him in death on Jan. 12, 1952. They located on

the farm of his birthplace, the house having been built here by his father following the Civil War. In this home were born

their two daughters, Mrs. Zola Ruben and Mrs. Marie Repass.  After living here five years they moved a half mile east of Nodaway, which place has been their home throughout the years following.  On July 1, 1951, Mr. and Mrs. Starr observed their 57^th wedding anniversary.

Oscar has been active in community affairs all his life. He was united with the Presbyterian church at an early age, was a member of the Masonic Iroquols Lodge No. 590 for 48 years, serving as its master at different times. Its principles

formed the pattern for his life's journey while here on earth. He also served two terms on the Board of Supervisors of Adams County. Iowa.

He was preceded in death by his father, mother, two sisters, Mary Starr and Mrs. Ada Poston and one brother, Emery Starr. His passing marks the last of the Starr family.  He is survived by his two daughters and sons-in-law: Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ruben of Lenox and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Repass of Villisca; one sister-in-law, Mrs. Ben J. Gibson of Des Moines, and a number of nieces and nephews to whom he was very devoted.

Funeral services by Rev. Wm Niles were held Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1954 at the Presbyterian Church in Nodaway, la. Masonic rites by Iroquois Lodge, 690.  Final resting place, Nodaway cemetery. Pall bearers were Gilbert Rider, Fred Carruthers, Harold Everett, Chas. Wood, Ted Kennedy and Harold Narigon.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday January 28, 1954

Taylor, Virginia Morris -

Funeral services for Mrs. Earl Taylor were held at the Christian church Sunday afternoon. [Gravity] Benjamin A. Hollis, minister of Christian church of Bedford had charge of services. Burial in Gravity cemetery. Mrs. Taylor had been in poor health for many months but death came unexpectedly on Wednesday. [Feb. 10] She leaves her husband, two sons, Bob and Ted of Gravity and two granddaughters and one sister, besides a host of other relatives and friends.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday February 18, 1954

Travis, Henry Gilbert -

Sympathy is extended to Mr. and Mrs. Armand Travis and children Carol and Dennis in the loss of their son and brother,

Henry Gilbert, who was killed in an automobile accident near McCook. Neb. on Wednesday, Feb. 10. He attended Union

No. 9 school and the Prescott High school. In 1952 he enlisted in the army and only recently returned from Korea.

Gilbert was driving from Ft. Carson, Colo., to Ft. Leonard where he was to be stationed for his few remaining months of service. 

Services were held at Stringtown church Sunday afternoon with a large crowd attending. Burial was at the Stringtown

cemetery. Rev. Sheffel officiated at the services.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday February 18, 1954

Troy, James J. A. –

The Rev. James J. A. Troy, 69, pastor of St. Austin’s Catholic Church for the past 16 years died Jan. 23 in a Minneapolis hospital.  He was the pastor of St. Patrick’s church in Lenox when the present church was built.

Msgr. Troy was one of the most titled clergyman in the St. Paul archdiocese.  He had served 30 years as army chaplain and been active otherwise in the church.  He was a native of Ireland, coming to American in 1926 shortly after he was ordained.

Mrs. Leslie L. Olson of Minnesota sent a clipping telling of his death.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday January 28, 1954