Guthrie County IA Archives Obituaries.....Weeks, Elbert Wright 1932
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A Record 1932
Elbert Wright Weeks

  Elbert Wright Weeks, son of Henry and Sarah Weeks, was born near Painesville,
Ohio, October 7, 1850, and passed peacefully to his eternal rest at the Masonic
Sanitarium at Bettendorff, Iowa, on December 17, 1932, aged 82 years, 2 month
and 10 days.

  He was married June 2, 1878, to Lorena Bower of Guthrie Center. To them were
born two children, Lena and Henry J. Mrs. Weeks died March 13, 1884.

  In 1887 Mr. Weeks again married, his second union being with Jennie Biggs.
They also had two children, Seth B. and E. Wright, Jr. In 1910 he was again
called upon to give up his companion by death, but this time the children were
all grown.

  He leaves of his immediate family to mourn his going, his daughter, Lena Till
of Des Moines, and son, E. Wright, Jr. of Hollywood, Calif., Seth and Henry both
having preceded him in death some years ago; also six grand children, Polly
Marie Weeks of Washington, D. C, Elbert Wright, Jr., Henry John and Nancy Belle
Weeks of Hollywood, Lorena Haggerty and Margaret Jane Weeks-Burson, one great
grand daughter, Marguerite Haggerty, all of Des Moines; also his sisters, Mrs.
Jessie Ferree of Des Moines and Mrs. Nettie Talbott of Pasadena, Calif., besides
a host of other relatives and friends.

  The funeral service was held at the Methodist Episcopal church in Guthrie
Center on December, 22, 1932, at 2 o'clock p. m., by the Rev. John F. Rex and
Rev. Alexander Wimberly, and interment occurred in Union cemetery, the Masons
conducting their beautiful ceremony at the grave.



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Pioneer Times and Peoples

GUTHRIE CENTER I0WA

By ELBERT WRIGHT WEEKS
1932


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