The Kansas City Star
August 15, 1993FRED R. STIRTON Fred Ralph Stirton, 86, Lee's Summit, died Aug. 13, 1993, at the home. Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the Newcomer's Floral Hills Chapel; burial in Floral Hills Cemetery.
Mr. Stirton was born in Barton County, Kan., and lived in this area most of his life. He worked for the General Motors Leeds Plant, retiring as an inspector in 1972. He was a deacon at the Pleasant Grove Bible Church. He was served in the National Guard.
Survivors include a daughter, Coylene Millen of the home; a brother, Ben Stirton, Merriam; two grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
The Kansas City Star
September 21, 1991Ruby L. Stirton, 80, Lee's Summit, died Sept. 19, 1991, at the Lee's Summit Hospital. She was born in Craig, Mo., and lived in this area most of her life. Mrs. Stirton was a jeweler's assistant for the Meyer Jewelry Corp. for 20 years, retiring in 1973. She was a member of the Pleasant Grove Bible Church.
Survivors include her husband, Fred R. Stirton of the home; a daughter, Coylene M. Millen, Raytown; a brother, Ernest Perkins, Waterbury, Neb.; four sisters, Frances Noe and Pauline Wheeler of Waterbury, Edith Gebhardt, Los Angeles, and Lula Rook, Fort Smith, Ark.; two grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
The Kansas City Star (MO)
September 9, 2016Jay J. Millen, 88, passed away Sept. 8, 2016. He was born in KCMO on July 19, 1928.
Jay is survived by his wife of 42 years, Kay Millen. Loving father of Kathy Torrey, David Millen, Michelle Morgan and Jillian Schwartz; nine grandchildren; and one great grandchild.
The Kansas City Star
December 11, 1991Nancy C. Stirton, 78, Mission, died Dec. 9, 1991, in Trinity Lutheran Manor, 9700 W. 62nd St., Merriam. She was a lifelong area resident. Mrs. Stirton was an accounts clerk for the Business Men's Assurance Co. for 20 years, retiring in 1976.
She was a member of London Heights Baptist Church. Survivors include her husband, Benjamin H. Stirton of the home; a sister, Janet Johnson, Lee's Summit; three grandsons; and three great-granddaughters.
The Kansas City Star
October 17, 1991Roy F. Stirton, 58, Roeland Park, former chief investigator for the Johnson County district attorney's office, died Oct. 15, 1991, at Shawnee Mission Medical Center.
Mr. Stirton worked for the district attorney for 17 years and was chief investigator from 1980 until he retired in February 1991. Earlier he was a police officer for the cities of Mission, Westwood and Roeland Park. He was a charter member of the Metro Squad and was a reserve Johnson County deputy sheriff. He was an honorary retired member of the Metro Chiefs of Police Association. Mr. Stirton was a member of the Missouri Army National Guard.
He was past master of the Lenexa Masonic Lodge and was a member of the Overland Park Masonic Lodge, the Scottish Rite bodies, the York Rite Masonry and the Order of the Eastern Star. He was past district deputy grand master of the Kansas Grand Masonic Lodge. He was a member of Abdallah Shrine, was past president and director of its provost guard and was past commander of its Legion of Honor. He was a member of the Royal Order of Jesters, was past president of the International Association of Shrine Provost and was an advisory board member of the Lenexa assembly of the Rainbow Girls. He was a member and chairman of the deacon board of the London Heights Baptist Church. He was a lifelong area resident.
Survivors include his wife, Jo Ann Brownlee Stirton of the home; three sons, Robert C. Stirton and David L. Stirton of Mission and Paul F. Stirton, Roeland Park; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Stirton of Mission; and three granddaughters.
The Quad-City Times (IA)
August 20, 2008
BETTENDORF - Donald Cloves, 73, of Bettendorf, Iowa, died Sunday, August 17, 2008, at Trinity at Pathway Hospice, Bettendorf.Private interment will be in Pine Hill Cemetery, Davenport. Memorials may be made to the family.
Mr. Cloves was born in 1934 in Atchison, Kansas, to Roy and Florence Cloves. On June 7, 1953, he married Pat Carter in Atchison. He served with the Navy Reserves during the Korean conflict. Don was a pattern maker at John Deere and Co. for 28 years. He then worked for Davenport Blackhawk Foundry, from which he retired. His memberships included the Masonic Lodge in Atchison, Kan., the NRA and Milan Rifle Club. He also loved cooking, and watching pro football from his easy chair on his new 52" TV, hunting and bowling. He was a big Eddie Arnold country music fan.
Survivors include his wife, Pat; daughters, Sue (Michael) Nosbisch, of Wytheville, Va., Cyndi McLeod, of Bettendorf, and Cathy (Kevin) McFadden, of Eden Prairie, Minn.; grandchildren, Rachel (Darrin) Johnson, Adam (Rachel) Nosbisch, Sarah (Lance) Hostutler, Luke McFadden and Patrick McFadden; great-grandchildren, Cash Johnson, Riley Johnson, Becca Nosbisch, Libby Nosbisch, and one on the way; and a sister, Judy Hargrove, of New Mexico. He was preceded in death by his parents and a daughter, Donna Jean Cloves, the "love of his life."
Mr. Haskell was born in Bradford, Iowa on the 5th of June, 1857. His father, Edwin A. Haskell, was of English descent and removed from his old home in Massachusetts to Iowa in pioneer times. He followed merchandising in Bradford and at Cedar Falls as proprietor of a general store, the only interruption to his active business career coming through his service in the Civil war, when he was an officer of an Iowa regiment. He married Eliza Holmes, who was born in England, and both are now deceased.
Willis G. Haskell pursued his education in the public schools at Cedar Falls and at Independence, Iowa, and when seventeen years of age started out in life on his own account as a telegraph operator with the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railroad. He remained with that road for twenty years, during which time he was promoted through intermediate positions until he became traveling freight and passenger agent. At length he resigned, thinking to make more rapid progress if he should engage in business on his own account. Accordingly, in 1893, he came to Cedar Rapids and here established a wholesale and retail coal business, in which he has since been engaged, securing an extensive patronage in this line. The business has been incorporated under the name of the W. G. Haskell Company, of which he is president, but this by no means measures the scope of his activities. He extended his efforts to many lines, which have felt the stimulus of his energy and have profited by his sound judgment and business sagacity. He is a director in the Merchants National Bank, is vice president of the Cedar Rapids Canning Company, president of the C. J. Johnston Gas Appliance Company, a director in the Allison Hotel Company and has extensive realty interests in Cedar Rapids, having made judicious investment in property here. He derives from his holdings a substantial income and his various business interests are recognized as among the profitable concerns of the city, contributing not only to the success of the stockholders but also constituting factors in the general prosperity.
The fact that Mr. Haskell is the incumbent in the position of postmaster is indicative of his allegiance to the republican party, which he has supported since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He was called to his present office in July, 1910, and to the administration of his affairs is bringing the same principles and system that have ever characterized the conduct of his business interests. His fellow townsmen knew something of his ability and fidelity in office, for he had previously served for six years, from 1896 until 1902, as a member of the city council. He is now custodian of the postoffice and courthouse and is a member of the river front commission. For some years he has been chairman of the park commission and has been identified with various projects for the upbuilding and benefit of the city. He is also a member of the republican state central committee from the fifth district and is recognized as one of the leaders in republican ranks in Iowa.
Mr. Haskell was married in 1881 to Miss May E. Williams, a daughter of the late W. F. Williams, a banker of Vinton, Iowa. They have become the parents of four children: Maud, now the wife of John Newman, of Cedar Rapids; Guy F., the vice president and secretary of the W. G. Haskell Company; Francis, who is now attending the National Park Seminary of Maryland; and Willis G., in school in this city. The family residence is at No. 1726 D avenue and its hospitality is one of its attractive features.
Mr. Haskell is very fond of traveling and has visited Cuba as well as every state in the Union. For over twenty-six years he has been a member of the Masonic fraternity and is past eminent commander of Cypress Commandery, K. T.; has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in Iowa Consistory, No. 2, and is a past potentate of El Kahir Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He likewise belongs to the Knights of Pythias fraternity. In manner he is genial and unostentatious, and the attainment of success has never affected his treatment of the less fortunate friends of his earlier years. Active in politics and prominent in fraternal circles, his ambition, however, seems to be in the line of business, and he regards his other interests as side issues with which, however, no life can be well rounded, no character well balanced. Yet they have never drawn his attention from the chief aim in his life and he has found that success is ambition's answer.
Reference
History of Linn County Iowa from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time
Volume II. Biographical
Local newspaperPauline Quaife was born February 15, 1879 in Germany and was the daughter of Henry and Marie Blocher Lauster.
She married Walter Quaife April 15, 1903 at Livermore, Iowa. They lived in Milford, Villard, Minn. And resided at Grand Marais, Minn. Since 1964.
She was a member of the Union Memorial Church in Milford and was in the Order of Eastern Star for 67 years.
She died Thursday, July 18 at the Dickinson County Memorial Hospital at the age of 95.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Walter in 1966 an infant son, two sisters and five brothers.
Survivors include two sons: Maurice of Grand Marais, Minn., and Ivan of Hewitt, N.J., one sister, Mrs. Ida Lodge of Milford, eight grandchildren and 9 great grandchildren.
Mason City Globe
March 28, 1934IONIA, March 28. - Jarry Quaife was called to nnawan, Ill., by the illness of his brother, Arthur E. Quaife, superintendent of the Harrison estate, Annawan, Ill., wo died Saturday evening at the Annawan hospital. Burial was Tuesday afternoon at Annawan.
Born at Ionia, Iowa, Oct. 14, 1880, his boyhood was spent on the farm south of Ionia and he attended the rural school and Ionia high school in his earlier years. After teaching a year or two he went to the Capital City Commercial ollege at Desa Moines and later entered Iowa State college at Ames, being graduated in 1909.
Some eastern persons invested in a large estate in Henry county, Ill., and a representative came to Iowa State college in the spring of 1909 to procure a superintendent for the property. Quaife, who was chosen, has served since.
On June 15, 1911, he was married to Miss Iva Dell Moon of Annawan, Ill. Three children were born to this union, Maurice Lyndon, who died in infancy; Arthur Jr., and daughter Clarice, both students at Augustana college, Rock Island, Ill.Mr. Quaife was a faithful worker in the Anawan community church and was superintendent of the Sunday school for several years. He is survived by his widow, son and daughter, besides four brothers, Walter M., Harry, Charles F. and Edward L., and three sisters, Miss Fannie A. Quaife, Mrs. J. Harvey and Mrs. Percy Ward
Waterloo Daily Courier
April 9, 1950NASHUA - Harry Quaife, 67, at 11 p.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph's hospital, New Hampton, following a lingering illnbess: born Jan. 8, 1883 on farm south of Ionia, son of Charles A. and Alice (Day) Quaife, pioneers of Chickasaw county: engaged in farming and windmill work: married Belva Bigelow Aug 22, 1905, at Ionia; leaves wife: one daughter, Mrs. Warren H. Bergh, Wayland: one granddaughter, three sisters, Fannie A. Quaife, Cedar Falls: Mrs. Percy A. Ward, Oelwein: Mrs. Harvey J. Hulse, Des Moines; two brothers, Walter, Tillamook, Oregon,, Elwin I., Ames: preceded in death by parents, one brother, funeral was Saturday.
Mount Pleasant News
December 18, 1953Wayland - Mrs. Belva Quaife, 69, passed away at 6:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 18, at her home in Wayland.
She was born Aug. 22, 1884 at Ionia, the daughter of William and Ida Bigelow. Her entire life was spent in the Ionia community. She was married Aug. 22, 1905 at Ionia, and after the death of her husband, moved to Wayland, May 1, 1950.
Mrs. Quaife attended the Congegational church at Ionia. She leaves one daughter, Mrs. Warren Bergh, Wayland, two sisters, Mrs. Bertha Smith, Northfield, Minn., and Mrs. Etta Johnson, Charles City.
Marriage Notes for Charles Frederick Quaife and Pearl Celeste Cagley
MARRIAGE:
The Nashua Reporter
October 3, 1928
Twenty years ago
On Wednesday evening, Sept. 23, at the home od the bride's parents, Mr. a
nd Mrs. Mike Cagley, south of Ionia, occurred the marriage of their eldest daughter, Miss Pearl to Mr. Charles Quaife.
Arrival at New York, aboard Compania, from Liverpool, September 1, 1912
The Nashua Reporter
March 27, 1929Again has death come into our midst and taken one of our businessman, E. M. Potter, manager of the Hawkeye Service Station, who succumbed to an attack of Pneumonia. Elmer Maurice Potter was born in Detroit Mich., Jan 19, 1862, and died at his home in Nashua, March 21, 1929, at the age of 67 years, 2 months and 2 days.
He came with his parents, George H. and Rebecca Potter, at the age of 7 years, to Iowa, where he settled on a farm near Ionia, where he grew to manhood. On March 23, 1886, he was united in marriage to Eliza Day of Ionia. There was born to this union one daughter, Gertrude M., whose mother died in 1891.
On Feb. 22, 1894, he was married to Clara E. Hastings, of Horton, Ia. To this union one daughter, Nellie E. was born.
The deceased was a buttermaker for several years, but finally located on a farm near Horton, where he resided until about six years ago. His health began to fail, and he moved to Nashua and started in business at the Hawkeye Service Station. About two weeks ago he was taken ill with Bronchial pneumonia and on March 21 he passed out into the Great Beyond.
He leaves to mourn his loss his wife and two daughters, Mrs. Fred Juergens, of Stanley, Iowa, and Mrs. Nellie Bullmer, of Nashua, five grandchildren, and three brothers, Herman J. of St. Cloud, Minn., Edward G., of Topaz, Calif., and Orlo H., of Nashua. His parents and three sisters, Ida E. Crooks, Jennie Bigelow and Minnie A., preceded him in death.
Interment in Greenwood cemetery.
The Nashua ReporterGertrude Bray
Committal services for the cremated remains of Gertrude M. Juergens will be held Saturday morning May 18 at Greenwood cemetery. The Rev. Marshall Hinds will officiate.
Gertrude Minnie Potter was born to Elmer Maurice and Eliza Day Potter February 1, 1888 at Bassett and died December 12, at a South Gate va hospital.
She married Andrew G. Bray September 12, 1908. They farmed in the Nashua area. They had three children, Elmer, Melvin and Helen. Her husband died March 19, 1919 after which she moved to Waterloo. She worked in different places until her marriage to Fred Juergens who died in 1929.
Mrs. Juergens is survived by one son Elmer, three daughters Helel Ryan, Alice Tibbitts and Grace Burk all of California, one sister Nellie Bulmer of Arkansas, five grandchildren and one great grandchild.
The Nashua Reporter
March 3, 1929Sorrow again entered the home of Mrs. Elmer M. Potter, who buried her husband just a week ago last Sunday, when her son-in-law, Fred Juergens of Stanley, Iowa, who with his wife, came here shortly before Mr. Potter's death to assist in caring or him.
Mr. Juergens was taken ill shortly after his arrival here with flue and was unable to attend the funeral service of Mr. Potter. Soon after pneumonia, the same disease that proved fatal to Mr. Potter4, developed and he passed away Saturday, March 30, 1929.
Mr. Juergens, wasa born November 15, 1893, at Tripoli, Iowa. He made his home at Fairbanks, and at Waterloo, later moving to Stanley where he and his family lived on a farm. He is survived by his wife, and two daughters, Alice age 6, and Grace, age 4. He is also survived by a brother, John Juergens, of Fresno, Calif., and a half brother, Lloyd Barr of Fairbanks, Iowa