Brown, Paul C -

Funeral services were held for Paul C. Brown were held on

Tuesday, Dec.24, 2002 at the United Methodist Church in

Clearfield, Iowa. Officiating the services was Rev. Len Garrison.

Musicians were Patty Parrish and Chantelle Jennett. Casket

bearers were Allen, Brown, Clint Brown, Tracy Cameron, Ron

Brown, Randall Nickle, and Paul Roger Whitmore. Military rites

were by Woodside Post #97 American Legion. Interment was at

the Clearfield Cemetery in Clearfield, Iowa.

Paul C. Brown was born in Clearfield, Iowa May 2, 1917. He

passed away on December 21, 2002 at Greater Community

Hospital in Creston, Iowa. He was the son of Claude and Edna

Buchanan Brown and was a lifelong resident of Clearfield.

He was united in marriage to Lavon McMath on November

26, 1945. They established their home on a farm south of

Clearfield.  To this union was born two children, Terry and Eileen.

Paul entered the Army Air Force February 2, 1942. He was

Honorably Discharged November 25, 1945. During his time of

service to his country, he was stationed in Texas and Italy.

When he returned home from the active duty he started

farming and continued farming until he retired in 1981. During the

winter months he also enjoyed truck driving for Dean Lyddon and

Walter Owens.

Paul and Lavon moved to Clearfield in 1989 and still remained

active with the farming operation until his death.

Paul was a member of the United Presbyterian Church until it

closed. He transferred his membership to the United Methodist

Church and served as chairman of the Administrative Board for

several years. Some of his other areas of service to his community

included Lions Club, American Legion, VFW, Clearfield School

Board, member of the cemetery board, and Clearfield Manor

board. As a Lion Club member, he enjoyed camping at the Iowa

State Fair and was the chairman of the shuttle bus service for two

years.

With his wife, he enjoyed traveling south during the winter

months.

Those left to cherish his memory include his wife, Lavon; son

Terry and wife Nancy, and daughter Eileen; Seven grandchildren,

Brandon, Dominic, Tristan and wife Jenni, Rhett, Tiffany and

husband Todd, Leah, and Gabriel; two great grandchildren,

Jackson and Abigail. Other close family members are Thelma

Brown, Bob and Shirley McMath, Helen McMath, Dale and

Marilyn Schlapia, and a host of nieces, nephews, and friends. Paul

held a special relationship as a second dad to Allen, Ron, Betty

Lou, Kathy, and Clint after the death of their father.

He was preceded in death by an infant brother George, his

parents, and brother Dale.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Wednesday January 1, 2003

Cheese, Mildred Ethelyn Walker -

Mass of Christian Burial for Mildred Cheese, age 84, of

Lenox, who passed away Monday, January 27, 2003 at Mercy

Hospital in Council Bluffs from acute Leukemia, were scheduled

Wednesday, January 27, 2003, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Patrick's

Catholic Church in Lenox with Father Dan Siepker officiating.

Interment was held at the North Fairview Cemetery in Lenox.

Memorials can be directed to the Lenox Public Library.

Arrangements were by Ritchie Funeral Home of Lenox.

Mildred Ethelyn (Walker) Cheese was born on May 6, 1918

at her parents' farm home near Lenox, Iowa. Mildred was the

daughter of William Warfield Walker and Delia (Walter) Walker.

She was greeted at home by an older sister Wilma. A brother

Henry would later join the family. Mildred was baptized in the

Lenox United Methodist Church and joined the Roman Catholic

Church after her marriage.

Mildred loved growing up on her parents' farm in rural Lenox.

Mildred's grade school years were spent in Taylor County one room

schools close to her parents' farm. She graduated

Valedictorian of the Lenox High School Class of 1936. Mildred

then attended two years of college in Maryville, Missouri.

After college, she worked as a bookkeeper in Lenox, at a

recording company in Los Angeles and at a Christmas Card

Company in St. Louis.

On April 20, 1941, Mildred married her high school classmate

Harry Raymond (Ray) Cheese in Bethany, Missouri. Shortly after

their marriage, Ray entered the United States Army serving in

World War II. Mildred followed him as long as he was stateside,

living in Colorado, California and Georgia. When Ray left for

Hawaii and Europe, she returned to Lenox to live with her parents.

In 1946, Mildred and Ray opened Cheese's Food Market on

Lenox's Main Street. At that time, there were several grocery

stores in Lenox. In 1959 they build what was then considered a

supermarket off the main business district. The business prospered

and allowed them to give good jobs and life training to their three

sons and many other Lenox High School boys. They owned and

operated their business until 1978 when they sold it to their son

Mike and his wife Kay.

In 1949 Ray and Mildred bought Ray's grandparents' home in

Lenox. Mildred lived in and loved this home until her death.

Family, church, friends and community were always very

important to Mildred. At an early age she had her son's serving

daily Mass at their Church, visiting home bound elderly, doing

Volunteer work and taking things to the local nursing home

residents. Mildred visited the Lenox Care facilities regularly until

the last month of her life. She was an active member of the Lenox

St. Patrick's Catholic Church, serving as President of the Altar

society, teaching Sunday School for many years. She served on the

Lenox Library Board for many years and was a long-time member

of the PEO and HS Club. Mildred welcomed the diversity that

came to Lenox. She volunteered to teach English to Hispanic

residents and helped them study for US Citizenship. Mike and Kay

liked to call her the "Social Director" of her friends as she helped

to organize outings and invited these special ladies frequently to her home.

Mildred loved words. This love showed in the poems and

many letters she wrote, the reading of children's books to her

family, the stack of library books that was always in her home, and

her enjoyment of crossword puzzles.

Left to cherish Mildred's memory are her three sons, Dave

Cheese and wife Lou of Danville, Kentucky; Mike Cheese and

wife Kay of Sun Valley Lake, Ellston, Iowa; and Bill Cheese and

wife Jane of Omaha, Nebraska; eight grandchildren, David and

Dana Cheese; Trish and Chad Johnson; Lisa and Kevin French;

Brian and Amanda Cheese; Annie Cheese; Jenna Cheese; and Erin

Cheese; two great-grandchildren; Maren and Maura French; and

three sisters-in-law; Lola Martindale; Virginia Walker and

Dorothy Cheese.

Preceding Mildred in death were her parents; husband Ray in

1990; a sister, Wilma Strough; a brother Henry Walker; Ray's

parents. Harry and Florence Cheese; brothers and sister-in-law,

Dale Martindale, Ed Strough, Carl and Marian Shaw and Hal

Cheese; and a special friend Francis Nagle who was like a third

grandmother to the Cheese boys.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Wednesday January 29, 2003

Freeman, Harry -

Funeral services for Harry Freeman of Lenox were held

Thursday, Jan. 29, at the Presbyterian Church in Lenox with

Pastor Tim Maxa officiating. Casket bearers were Robert

Mosby Jr., Andrew Mosby Jr., Craig Mosby, Larry Eighme, Jim

Haag, and Robert Haag. Honorary bearers were Bob Pigman, Jack

Avant, Andy Anderson, Harold Haag, Richard Hagg,  Raymond

Haag, Lanny Douglas, Gary Swank, Ernie Hufhagel, and Fred

Haynes.

Music was provided by Linda Woolley, organist, and Byron

Brown, vocalist.

Interment was in Graceland Cemetery in Creston.

Memorial contributions may be directed to Lenox Presbyterian

Church, of which he was a member, and Lenox Ambulance Service.

Coen-Beaty-Pearson Family Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements.

Harry was well known throughout the Lenox area as a farmer

and one of the likable "characters" in the community. He is

survived by his wife, Darlene of Lenox; children Rosalie (husband

Ken) Graham of Orient and Gary (wife Barbara) Freeman of

Lenox; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

He was born on Nov. 5, 1928, in Creston to Amelia (Haag)

and Harry Arthur Freeman. He passed away at McCallen Medical

Center near his winter home in Alamo, Texas, on Jan. 24, 2003, at

the age of 74.

Harry was preceded in death by his parents and an infant

daughter, Barbara Ann Freeman.

He married Darlene Mosby at Hill of Zion Church near Orient

on Nov. 27, 1949. He farmed in the Lenox area for many years,

and in recent years he and Darlene made a winter home in Alamo.

There the Freemans joined a number of other Lenox area

"snowbirds" for friendship and social gatherings.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Wednesday February 5, 2003

Gosch, Wilma Eberle -

Wilma E. Gosch, 89, of Wall Lake, Iowa, died at Twilight

Acres Nursing Home on November 29, 2002.

Wilma, daughter of Katharine (Wurster) Eberle, was born

August 25, 1913 in Lenox, Iowa. She graduated from Lenox High

School and AIB Business School of Des Moines. She was a

secretary at Wunschel Law Firm of Wall Lake, 1966-69 and

Office manager at National Oats, Co. Wall Lake from 1937-1964.

On September 12, 1945 Wilma was united in marriage to

Aurther Gosch in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Wilma was a member of the Peace Lutheran Church Wall

Lake and active in Ladies Aid She was a member of Research

Club, Library board Wall Lake Improvement Board Election

board and helped with Community Chest.

Wilma is survived by three cousins, Lelha Wurster and Freda

Davis of Lenox, and Bob (wife Dorothy) Basler of McAllen,

Texas. Many nieces, nephews and cousins and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Arthur,

three sisters, Regina, Georgia and Leah; three brothers, Kenny,

Carl and Frank.

Services were held Dec. 2 at the Peace Lutheran Church, Wall

Lake, Iowa. Burial at Wall Lake Cemetery.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Wednesday December 25, 2002

Higday, Max Eugene -

Max Eugene Higday was born January 24, 1933 in Kellerton, Iowa

and was the middle child to Carroll and Jennie June Higday.

He spent his childhood years in Kellerton, entered the Air

Force in 1950 and spent the next 12 years in the Armed Forces.

Max married Mary Ellen Swank on August 29, 1962 and raised

five children. With his experience from the military, he became an

electrician upon exit from the service. He wired several big

projects in his career, including the hospital in Creston, the

housing units in Corning and Manning and also numerous

electrical jobs for friends and family.

He enjoyed his retirement years at Clearview Manor in

Clearfield, Iowa. He liked playing cards with friend, cooking

outside at the gazebo, watching and feeding the birds, and his road

trips with friends and family.

Max was proceeded in death by his father and mother, Carroll

and Jennie Higday; a brother, Gerald; and an infant sister, Jeanette

Ann.

He survived by siblings, Rosemary, Betty Jean, Caryllou,

Jackie and Linda Kay; the mother of their children, Mary Higday;

children Bob McLead, Brent and Faith Higday, Marilyn and Steve

Thompson, Mike Higday and Mark Higday; a special friend,

Mildred Mathews; nine grandchildren; many nieces, nephews,

cousins and other relatives; and many friends.

Max donated his body to the University of NE. Memorial

service was held on December 3,2002 at 3:00 P.M.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Wednesday December 11, 2002

Hill, Melvin (Jack) John -

Melvin "Jack" John Hill began his life's journey on January

10, 1969 and entered into peace on November 7, 2002. Services

were on Monday, November 11, 2002 at 10:00 A.M. at the

Roland-Johnson-Ritchie Funeral Home in Corning, Iowa and

interment was at the Oak Hill Cemetery in Corning, Iowa.

Officiating was Reverend Dr. Jeanne Groom. The organist was

Jean Nevius and special music by Tim Fees. Selected music was:

"Go Rest High On That Mountain," "Peace in the Valley," and

"Because He Lives." Bearers were Rich Combs, Tim Cooney,

Dale Carmichael, Dillon Curtis Combs, Mike Goldsmith, and

Michael Hill. Honorary Bearers were Edwin Hill and Jim Moore.

He was born at home in rural Taylor County, Iowa the son of

Charles Edwin Hill and Elizabeth Catherine Madden Hill. Jack

grew up attending school in the Lenox area. On December 22,

1940 he was united in marriage to Betty Jane Law in Prescott,

Iowa. To this loving union four children were born.

Jack was a hardworking man who worked for over fifty-two

years at the light plant for Corning Municipal Utilities. Jack was

from the "old school" of thinking wherein you were always a

dedicated employee. He was on-call 24 hours a day, 365 days a

year, and he never complained. That was his job. He served for

over twenty years as a volunteer fireman and was a member of the

Corning Christian Church.

Jack and Betty shared over sixty-one years of happiness

together. They loved their family and enjoyed spending time with

their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. They enjoyed their

many friends in both the Corning and Lenox area, and Jack always

seemed to know "what was going on" up and down Main Street!

Left to cherish Jack's memory are his loving wife Betty of

Corning; two sons, Dennis Hill and wife Paulette of Middle

Amana, Iowa; and John Hill of Corning a daughter, Luann Combs

and husband Rich of Atlantic; a sister, Delma Richards of Carroll;

& grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren along with many other

relatives and friends.

Preceding Jack in death were his parents Charles and

Elizabeth; a son Jamie Curtis in 1971; two brothers, Jerald and

Harold Hill; two sisters, Pearl Rechsteiner and Eva Moore.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Wednesday December 11, 2002

Kouba, Betty Anstey -

Betty Kouba of Corning, formerly of the Prescott and Carl

areas, passed away on Jan. 2, 2003, at the age of 95. Funeral

services were held on Jan. 7 at Coen-Beaty-Pearson Family

Funeral Service of Corning with Pastor Fred Bryson officiating.

Burial was in the Bohemian National Cemetery, Williamson,

Iowa. Memorials have been announced to St Jude's Children's

Hospital of Memphis, Tenn.

Betty was born August 23, 1907, in Monnuthshire-Shirenewton,

England near Wales, to Fred Anstey and Bessie Benjamin Anstey.

She graduated from Cumberland High School

with the class of 1926.

On May 8, 1929, she was married to George Kouba in

Shenandoah.

Betty and her family moved from England and settled in

Chicago in 1910. They moved to Iowa about 1913. After

graduating from high school, she lived most of her life in Adams

County near the Prescott and Carl areas. She had been a resident

of Corning for the past 15 months.

Survivors include a niece, Marian Amdor of Massena; stepniece

Lela (husband Bob) Wiley-Basehor of Kansas; a cousin,

Gwen Dickey of Walla Walla, Wash. She was preceded in death

by her husband in October 1966; a sister Queenie Anstey; a

nephew-in-law, Eugene Amdor; and brothers William and Colin

Anstey.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Wednesday January 8, 2003

Manroe, Bonnie Brown -

Funeral services for Bonnie Manroe, age 77 of Lenox, were

held Dec. 22 at the Christian Church in Lenox with Rev. Dena

Vitorio officiating. Burial was in East Fairview Cemetery in

Lenox. Memorials are in her name. Funeral arrangements were

by Coen-Beaty-Pearson Family Funeral Service.

Bonnie was born to Martin D Brown and Martha Jane Stonesifter

Brown on May 22, 1925, near Kent, Iowa. She passed away on

Dec. 18, 2002, at Greater Community Hospital in Creston.

On Feb. 14, 1946, she married Robert Allen Manroe in Troy,

Kansas. Early in their marriage, Bonnie and Bob traveled with

"Hale's Shows of Tomorrow." She then worked for the Sheridan

Egg Co. Bonnie and her husband owned and operated the C&M

Tavern in Lenox for several years. She retired from Taylor Ridge

Estates in 1987 at the age of 62.

Bonnie lived most of her life in Lenox. She was a member of

the Christian Church in Lenox,

Survivors include daughter Linda (husband Rick) Nelson of

Lenox; grandchildren Jill (husband Tim) Shaw of Lenox and Ben

(wife Jennifer) Nelson of Clearfield; great-grandchildren Bailly,

Payton, and Jacey Glynn of Creston and Tate, Tryce, Morgan, and

Masen Nelson of Clearfield; brothers-in-law Bill (wife Shirley

Moffitt of Boulder, Colo., and Earl (wife Anna Mae) Moffitt of

Salton Sea, Calif.; sisters-in-law Darlene Manroe of Gravity and

Delores Ambrose of Gravity; and many nieces, nephews and other

relatives.

She was preceded in death by her husband in July 1993, a

brother Harvey Brown, and sisters Ruby Badgett and Beulah

Clinton.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Wednesday January 1, 2003

Martin, Ruth L Hiles -

Rev. Ruth L. Martin 87, of St Joseph, Missouri passed away

on December 30, 2002 at a local health care center.

Ruth was born in Braddyville, Iowa on September 24, 1916 to

Dudley and Gladys (Dow) Hiles, and had lived in Iowa and

Missouri, she has been a St Joseph resident since 1972,

She graduated from the Open Bible College in 1954 in Des

Moines and pastored churches in Forest City and Plover, Iowa.

She was a member of the Central Assembly of God Church.

She married D. Fred Martin on December 26, 1959. He

preceded her in death in 1991. She was also preceded by her

parents, five sisters, Chloe Kell, Agnes Patterson, Bertha Logsdon,

and Freda Sill, Willa Lamb, and one brother, Dudley Hiles, Jr.

Survivors include: two sons, Fred E. and his wife Mary and

James R. Stoaks all of Kansas City, Missouri; one step-daughter,

Dorothy Grubb of Fairfax, Missouri; one sister, Elizabeth Piveral

and her husband George, of Why, Arizona; one brother, Carroll

Hiles and his wife Delores of Cave City, Arkansas; 4 step-great

grandchildren; 2 sister-in-laws, Billie Hiles of Ellsinore, Missouri

and Hazel Stoaks of Lenox, Iowa.

Services were held at Heaton-Bowman-Smith and Sindenfasden

Chapel. Graveside Services and Interment were at West Fairview

cemetery, Lenox. Visitation were held at Heaton-Bowman-Smith

and Sidenfaden Chapel.

The family has requested memorials to Central Assembly of

God Church.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Wednesday January 8, 2003

Olney, Roger Earnest -

Roger Earnest Olney, 59, Redding, Iowa passed away at his

home on November 25, 2002. He was born Dec. 9, 1942 in

Redding, to Clifton and Bertha Olney.

He graduated from the Mount Ayr High School in 1961, he

then served 2 years in the U.S. Army. He was a member of the

Redding United Methodist Church. Roger was a farmer and lived

all of his life in rural Ringgold County in the Redding area.

Roger was proceeded in death by his parents, Clifton and

Bertha; 2 sisters, Thelma Kite and Charlotte Trammell; his

stepfather Grant Brott and 2 step-brothers, Lowell and Charlie

Brott. He is survived by 1 brother Leroy and wife Georgia of

Chillicothe, MO; 3 sisters, Helen Miller and husband Clark of

Whittier, CA, Marilyn Monday and husband Jay of Visalia, CA,

and Edith Hensley and husband Don of Kansas City, MO; brother-in-

law Bill and Ruby Kite of Russellville, AR; nieces, Deanna

Monday, Delores Paz and husband Frank, Deborah Kite, Darla

Jackson and husband Scott, Sharon Epperson and husband Bob,

Shirley Olney and Greg Ancell; nephews Gerald and James Olney

and wife Sharon, Jeff Hensley and wife Renee; great-nephews,

Brandon and Brian Olney, Nathan and Jacob Jackson, Bradley

Epperson, and Nalu Paz; great-nieces Jenee Hensley and Nicole

Ancell; aunt Vera Combs, step-sisters-law Betty Zigler and her

husband Leonard, Vaunceil and Charlene Brott, and many cousins

and a host of friends.

Roger loved his family and one of his greatest joys was taking

the nephews and nieces on tractor rides and touring the farm. He

appreciated his rural roots and returned to Iowa after completion

of military duty and the death of his dad to assume the farming and

providing for his mom. Roger was patient in caring for his

livestock and spent a lot of time watching them eat.

Roger looked after his mom again after the death of Grant,

allowing her to stay in her home in Clearfield until her death on

June 6, 2002. He was there daily doing shopping, cooking meals

and other things she needed.

He will be missed by his family and friends and left us with

many great memories and jokes.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Wednesday December 11, 2002