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• Obituary: 24 Oct 2006

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Bertha married Maurice Eugene KENNON on 16 May 1939 in Rock Port, Atchison, MO. Maurice (son of Fred LaRue KENNON and Emma Jeanette MADISON) was born on 2 Nov 1920 in Carthage, Miner, SD; died on 29 May 2007 in Stanton, Montgomery, IA; was buried on 2 Jun 2007 in Evergreen Cemetery, Red Oak, Montgomery, IA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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4. Barbara Ann KENNON was born on 20 Oct 1947 in Red Oak, Montgomery, IA; died on 3 May 1998; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Red Oak, Montgomery, IA.
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Henry was about 4 months old when he first come to Montgomery County, IA with his mother and he returned with her to Illinois at the age of 17 months. His mother died 2 months later of consumption (tuberculosis). Frank lived with his maternal grandparents while his father returned to the farm in Iowa. After his father remarried, they took Frank back to Iowa with them. He was about 3 years old then. He remained on the farm a short time after his father and stepmother left to live in Red Oak, IA.

OBITUARY

SERVICES HELD FOR HENRY F. ASKEY, 86

GRISWOLD--Funeral services for Henry Franklin Askey, 86, early day photographer at Red Oak and later a farmer near Red Oak and Grant, were held Saturday, February 21, at Wagler's Funeral Home here.

He died Thursday, February 19, at Marshall Manor in Red Oak.

The Rev. Clarence Landis of Elliott officiated at the rites and burialwas a Grant.

The son of Samuel and Mary Fisher Askey, he was born March 13, 1872, in Rock Grove, IL and came to Iowa as a small child, settling in Pilot Grove Township. He was married in 1902 to Alice Carroll who died two years ago.

Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Mary Nielsen, Red Oak, Mrs. RuthEshelman, Elliott, Mrs. Florence Martens, Griswold, Mrs. Mildren Kennon,Stanton, 15 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, four sisters, Mrs. A.E. Connick, Mrs. Bert Mullen, and Miss Lucy Askey, all of Red Oak, andMrs. E. E. Hossle of Ames and a brother, Hugh Askey.

Henry married Alice Dean CARROLL on 25 May 1902 in Guthrie Center, Guthrie, IA. Alice was born in 1878 in CT; died on 25 Mar 1957 in IA; was buried in Grant Cemetery, Grant, Montgomery, IA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]