OBITUARY: Edward G. Ryan, Worth County, Iowa



                           Edward G. Ryan
                           
Edward G. Ryan, 74, prominent retired Joice farmer, died Sunday at
8 a.m. (6-30-1968) at Mercy Hospital, Mason City, where he had entered
several days earlier for treatment of a heart ailment.

Funeral rites were conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the St. Patrick
Catholic Church, Lake Mills, by Rev. Donald Hawes, Mason City.  Burial
was in the St.Patrick Catholic Cemetery at Bristol.  The rosary was said
Monday evening at Anderson Mittelstadt Funeral Home.

Mr. Ryan was born March 2, 1894 at Joice to Edward T. and Sarah (Gaynor)
Ryan and lived his entire life on the Ryan farm which had been in the
family nearly 100 years, and was of the third generation on the farm.

He was a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church.  A veteran of WWI, he was
a member of Myhre-Elliott American Legion Post 713 at Joice.  He served
many years as a Bristol Township trustee and election judge and was on the
board of directors of the Joice Cooperative Elevator.

Mr. Ryan was never married.  He was preceded in death by his parents,
three brothers:  Will, Vincent and James, and one sister, Jennie.




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