| Delbert Major Wolford
(Times Herald News Service)
Auburn - Delbert Major Wolford, 64, Auburn resident for the
past 24 years, died about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, Wolford, of a heart attack
at his home here.
Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, at the
Huffman Memorial Chapel, Lake City, with burial in the Early Cemetery.
The Rev. M. H. Kennedy, Auburn, will conduct the services.
Mr. Wolford was a retired employe of the Chicago & North
Western Railway. He was born at Manson Jan. 4, 1896, a son of John V.
and Mary Angeline Johnston Wolford. His marriage to Jessie Gladys
Armagost took place at Sac City Feb. 17, 1916. He was a member of the
Congregational Church at Manson.
Surviving with his wife are three daughters: Mrs. Foster (Ruth)
Steele, Early; Mrs. Richard (Alice) Waters, Sioux City; and Mrs. William
(Lola) Wadsworth, Des Moines; one son, Glen Wolford; two sisters, Mrs.
Margaret Westendorf, Windom, Minn.; and Mrs. Glen Love. Brownsdale,
Minn.; one brother, Donald Wolford, Sac City; and seven grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, and one son. Clarence
Major Wolford, who died at the age of four months.
(Carroll Daily Times Herald, Iowa, Tuesday, February 9, 1960, p. 11) |
