BURIED IN PARK VIEW CEMETERY, ALEXANDRIA, MADISON CO., INDI ANA DIED OF HEAT EXHAUSTION NO CHILDR EN FOR THEM IN MONTGOMERY CO., IOWA 1926 WHEELOCK, NORTH DAKOTA MELVIN PENRY, HEAT VICTIM, DIES SUNDAY ALEXANDRIA - HIGH TEMPERATURES WH ICH HOVERED OVER THIS AREA LAST WEEK END CLAIMED ONE LIFE IN MADISON COUNTY. MELVIN PENRY, A FARMER RESIDING ON R.R. 3, ALEXANDRIA, ONE AND ONE-HALF MILE SOUTH OF ORESTES, DIED OF HEAT EXHAUSTION AT 4:04P.M. SUNDAY IN ST. JOHN'S H OSPITAL, ANDERSON. HE WAS 82. HE WAS BORN NOV. 3, 1870 IN IOWA, THE SON OF JAM ES AND ELIDA BINNEGAR PENRY. HIS FATHER, WHO WAS BORN IN INDIANA, WENT TO IOW A BY OX TEAM AND PRAIRIE SCHOONER WHERE THE FAMILY SETTLED. TWICE MARRIED, TH E FATHER HAD 19 CHILDREN. THE DECEASED SPENT HIS YOUTH IN IOWA, AND AS A YOU NG MAN, MOVED TO NORTH DAKOTA, WHERE HE LIVED FOR 35 YEARS. IN 1926, HE CAME TO MADISON COUNTY, LIVING IN THE ORESTES VICINITY. AFTER MOVING TO GASTON AND TIPTON COMMUNITIES, HE RETURNED TO ORESTES SEVEN YEARS AGO TO MAKE HIS HOME. MR. PENRY WAS FIRST MARRIED TO MRS. ROSE LEE MAY WHO PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH IN 1936. IN JUNE, 1939 HE MARRIED RUTH AMY HICKS, OF DALEVILLE, IND. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE MADISON COUNTY FARM BUREAU. SURVIVING BESIDES THE WIDOW ARE THR EE BROTHERS, GEORGE, CLARENCE AND JOHN W. PENRY, ALL OF NEBRASKA; ONE SISTER, MRS HERMAN POTTERS, IOWA; FOUR HALF-BROTHERS, ELMER, EMORY, BERT AND RUSSELL , PENRY ALL OF IOWA, FOUR HALF-SISTERS, MRS CHARLES HULL, CANADA; MRS. MABEL CARROLL, MRS. GRACE VanBUSKIRK AND MRS. RAYMOND ENGLAND, ALL OF IOWA. THE BO DY WAS TAKEN TO THE GIPE, WILLIAMS AND KYLE FUNERAL HOME, AND LATER RETURNED TO THE FAMILY HOME WHERE FRIENDS ARE BEING RECEIVED UNTIL 4P.M. TUESDAY. TUES DAY EVENING THE CASKET WILL BE RETURNED TO THE LOCAL FUNERAL HOME WHERE FRIEN DS MAY CALL. FINAL RITES HAVE BEEN ARRANGED FOR 2P.M. WEDNESDAY AT THE FUNERAL
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Melvin Penry (b. November 03, 1873, d. June 21, 1953)
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