Clinton-Jackson-Jones County IA Archives Obituaries.....Staggs, Dr. D. B. February 13, 1943
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Jackson Sentinel, Feb. 19, 1943
Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa February 19, 1943

OBITUARY

Dr. Douglas B. Staggs

Dr. Douglas B. Staggs, son of George and Maria Fuller Staggs, was born January 
23, 1872, at DeWitt, Iowa. He became ill February 9th and was taken to Mercy 
Hospital, Anamosa on February 11th, where he passed away on February 13, 1943.

In the public schools of his birthplace, Dr. Staggs began his education and 
after completing the high school course in 1893, he entered upon medical 
studies at Hahnemann College, Chicago, Illinois. In the spring of 1896 he 
received his degree of Medical Doctor from the institution and immediately 
engaged in the practice of medicine in Low Moor, Iowa, remaining there until 
1898. In that year he came to Monmouth, which has been the place of his labors.

He was president of the Monmouth School Board and telephone company and mayor 
of Monmouth, in which capacity he was serving at the time of his death. He was 
a member of the Monmouth Community Church and of Keystone Masonic Lodge of 
Wyoming.

In January, 1897, Dr. Staggs was married to Mae Van Epps at Low Moor, Iowa. 
Two sons were born to that union, Earl of Maquoketa and Harold of Monmouth. On 
November 7, 1925, he was married to Marjorie Sutton of Monmouth, who with the 
two sons survive. Also surviving are a stepdaughter, Mrs. Anadria Caraway of 
Monmouth; two brothers, O. E. Staggs of DeWitt and C. H. Staggs of Los 
Angeles, California; two sisters, Mrs. J. H. Phillbert of DeWitt and Miss 
Edith Staggs of Davenport; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild; an 
aunt, Mrs. H. B. Mills of Chicago and many distant relatives.

Funeral services were held in the Methodist Church on Tuesday, the Rev. Rev. 
F. E. Mastin of McCausland and the Rev. Robert Marshall of Chicago, 
officiating. Hymns were sung by Jess L. Tomlinson of Hopkinton, accompanied by 
Mrs. S. A. Orris, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Zak and Mrs. Ann Best had charge of the 
flowers. Pall bearers were E. S. Heath, E.R. Bristol, Howard Gee, George 
Trimble, J. W. Allen, William Hurst, S. A. Orris and Joe Nowachek. Burial was 
in the Monmouth Cemetery. Masonic burial services were in charge of Lee M. 
Sherrill.


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