OBITUARY: Henry Carl Roby, 1896-1966, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Source: Mitchell County Press-News or Mason City Globe Gazette]


                     RITES HELD FOR HENRY ROBY, 70

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon for a well known Mitchell
county farmer, Henry C. Roby, who died at the home of his cousin, Donald
Roby, at Petersburg W. Va., last Wednesday morning.  Mr. Roby became ill
last Tuesday while visiting in the Petersburg area.

The Rev. Melvin Hall, former pastor of the Christian and Missionary
Alliance church in Osage and now of St. Paul, was assisted in the services
by the Rev. Robert Smith, pastor of the Methodist church in Osage.  Services
were at the Champion Funeral Home and burial was in the Osage cemetery.
(Oct. 1966)

Henry Carl Roby was born June 4, 1896, at Arthur, W. Va., the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Benjamin Grant Roby.  His mother died while he was still a young child.
He grew to manhood in that area and was married to Bessie Kuykendall, coming
to Mitchell County in 1920.  He engaged in farming all of his adult life,
and was well-known as a land owner.

Mr. Roby is survived by his wife, Bessie of Osage; one daughter, Mabel at
home; two sons, Garrett of rural Osage; two sisters, Mrs. Ethel Bean of
Moorefield, W. Va., and Mrs. William Baer of Somerset, Pa., five halfsisters,
Mrs. George Harmon, Mrs. William Dayton of Petersburg, W. Va., Mrs. William
Clayton, Mrs. Larry Day of Cumberland, Md., and Mrs. Kermit Mowery of
Baltimore, Md.

He was preceded in death by his parents, one sister, two half-brothers and
one granddaughter.



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