These are typed from photographed copies of many obituaries and death notices that I have in my collection. For many of them there is no indication of what newspaper they came from nor is a year indicated for some of them. Photo copies are sometimes hard to read or are damaged. Also, some of the obits and death notices may not be complete. I will be spending time searching out the complete documents and their location, as well as continuing to search for more obituaries and death notices. I always strive for correctness.
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MRS. EDWIN P. UBER, OF NEAR GREENTOP, DIES
Funeral and Burial Tomorrow at Ft. Madison
Mrs. Mary Uber, 53 years old wife of Edwin P. Uber, died last night at 9 o’clock at her home four miles east of Greentop. She had been ill only a short time.
The funeral is to be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Ft. Madison Church, conducted by the Rev. Perley M. Lind, of Queen City. Burial will be in the Ft. Madison Cemetery.
Mrs. Uber was born Nov. 26, 1883 in Germany, a daughter of Gustaf and Anna Schade, but came to the United States when a baby in 1885. She was married in 1904 to Mr. Uber and four children were born.
The children are Mrs. Edith VanMeter, and Orville, George and Juanita Uber. There also are two grandchildren, Virginia and Robert VanMeter.
She also is survived by her aged father, who made his home with her; one sister, Mrs. Orville Anderson; four brothers, Henry, Albert, Charlie and Oscar Schade, all of Peoria, Ill. Her mother, a brother and sister preceded her in death.
Mrs. Uber had lived at the home where she died since 1909.
When a young girl she joined the Lutheran Church but later moved her membership to the M. E. Church close to her home.
The body is lying in state at the family home.
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FRED L. UETZ, FORMER GROCER HERE, DIES
80-Year-Old Man Fell and Broke Hip 10 Days Ago.
Fred Louis Uetz, 80 years old, a grocer her for fifteen years, died at his home at 702 North Elson street yesterday morning at 2:30 o’clock.
He had been in declining health for the past ten years and he fell Nov. 14 and broke his right hip.
The funeral will be held in the Davis & Wilson Funeral Home Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, conducted by the Rev. Joseph W. Thompson, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as the Rev. B. N. Covert, Mr. Uetz’ pastor, is out of the city. Burial will be in the Llewellyn Cemetery, with the Odd Fellows in charge of the service.
Mr. Uetz was born Feb. 8, 1856 near St. Louis, Mo., a son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Uetz.
He was married about 1886 to Miss Eva Tuxedo, who died in 1913. Three children, Iris, Charles and Cathryn, were born. The two sons preceded their father in death.
Mr. Uetz was married to Miss Priscilla Callison on May 13, 1914, who survives him.
He also is survived by the daughter, Mrs. William Kraft, of Clovis, N. Mex., and several grandchildren.
He was a member of the Presbyterian Church here and Adair Lodge No. 96 I. O.O. F. Mr. Uetz retired from the grocery business in 1920.
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W. C. UNASH’S MOTHER DIES IN CALIFORNIA
Mrs. Barbara Unash died in Chico, Cal., yesterday morning, according to word received during the afternoon by her son, W. C. Unash, of this city. She was 67 years old and had been in ill health for about a month, having been seriously ill at one time but recently had been reported as getting better. Mr. Unash had planned to go to California next week to visit his mother.
The funeral and burial services will be held tomorrow at her home in Red Bluff, Cal.
The deceased visited here about a dozen years ago. Besides the son here, she is survived by three sons and one daughter who reside in California.
Mr. Unash has the sympathy of his many friends in his bereavement.
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G. E. UNDERHILL 85 YEARS OLD IS DEAD HERE
Opened Store in Kirksville 52 Years Ago; Funeral Sunday
George E. Underhill, one of North Missouri’s oldest business men, died this morning at 1 o’clock at his home, 504 South Franklin street, at the age of 85 years. Mr. Underhill had been ill the past two weeks. Prior to that time he had been regarded as unusually active for his age.
Funeral services will be held at the Dee Riley Funeral Home Sunday afternoon at two o’clock, conducted by Rev. T. W. Jolly, pastor of the First Christian Church. Interment will be in the Maple Hills Cemetery.
Mr. Underhill was the son of Anson and Emily Rhoades Underhill and was born in Colchester, Ill., March 14, 1863. He was married December 31, 1888, at Colchester, Ill., to Laura Parker, and to this marriage one son, Garnett P. was born.
He is survived by his wife and son of Kirksville; one brother, Clarence, of Colchester, Ill.; and two sisters, Mrs. John (Caroline) Rippetoe, of Colchester, and Mrs. Al (Ella) Durham, Denver, Colo.; one granddaughter, Mrs. Ralph (Jolene) Underhill Pink, who is attending the University of Missouri at Columbia.
He was preceded in death by his parents and five brothers.
Mr. Underhill had been a member of the I. O. O. F. Lodge at Colchester, Ill. for sixty-four years.
He came to Kirksville 52 years ago and entered the millinery business where Penney’s is now located, and continued in this business until ready-to-wear came along. When skirts were first being offered on the market, Mr. Underhill was the first merchant in Kirksville to carry them. He later bought the old Boston Store and went into the ready-to-wear business.
The body will lie in state at the Dee Riley Funeral Home.
Bearers will be R. E. Valentine, John Goetze, Orin Kanan, Ralph Goodwin, Maurice Clark, Sr., Harvey B. Young, Jr.
George E. Underhill, Kirksville, Missouri, Kirksville Daily Express, 01 Oct 1948, p. 1, col. 3
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MRS. BELLE UNDERWOOD, 79, DIES HERE
Came To Live With Daughter, Mrs. Ada Rolston, In 1924.
Mrs. Belle (Conner) Underwood, 79, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ada Rolston, 301 E. Jefferson Street, yesterday. She had been in ill health for some time and seriously ill the past three weeks.
Mrs. Underwood, a daughter of William and Sarah Conner, was born July 5, 1864 in Johnson County, Ia. She was married to Eugene Underwood at Kirksville in 1890. To this union two children were born: Howard Underwood, Sui Sun City, Calif., who arrived in Kirksville two days ago, and Mrs. Ada Rolston, of 301 E. Jefferson Street.
She lived most of her life at Moulton, Ia., coming to Kirksville in 1924 to make her home with her daughter. She was one of a family of eight children, two brothers and six sisters, all having preceded her in death except one sister, Mrs. Jennie Sheeile, of Wenatchee, Wash. Her husband died Nov. 5, 1922 at Moulton, Ia.
She was a member of the Baptist Church and of the T. E. L. Sunday School class and also of the church circles and the Sojourners Club.
Surviving are her son, Howard, and daughter, Mrs. Rolston, and the following grandchildren; Mrs. Clyde Howell, Moberly; Edwin J. Rolston, Lambert Field, St. Louis, and Howard Rolston, of Kirksville, and four great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at the First Baptist Church in Kirksville Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock with the Rev. Ralph M. G. Smith officiating. Burial will be at Moulton, Ia. The body will lie in state at the Dee Riley Funeral Home until 1 p.m. and at the Church from 1 to 2 o’clock.
Pallbearers will be William Corbin, Harley Wellman, Ray Gardner, Ralph Mitchell, L. L. Heaberlin and Stanley Hayden.
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An infant child of Mr. and Mrs. William Unger, living near Bible Grove in Mt. Pleasant Township, died of la grippe, last Thursday, March 6, 1890, aged about 8 months.
Funeral services were held on Friday after which the body was laid to rest in Bible Grove cemetery.
Infant Child Unger, Memphis, Missouri, Memphis Reveille, 13 Mar 1890
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JAMES EDWARD UNGER, RETIRED FARMER, DIES
Fell and Broke Hip May 7 at Home of sister Near Baring
James Edward Unger, 70, eastern Adair county retired farmer, died about one o’clock this morning in the hospital at Edina. Mr. Unger, who has been making his home with his sister, Mrs. Nancy Monroe, near Baring, the past six months, fell at her home Wednesday night, May 7, and broke his hip. He had been in failing health the past two years or more.
Funeral services will be held at the Summers and Powell Funeral Home Friday afternoon at two o’clock conducted by Rev. Russell E. Otto, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Interment will be in Maple Hills Cemetery beside his wife, who died about two years ago.
Mr. Unger was the son of John G. and Elizabeth (Covey) Unger and was born in Scotland County, Mo., June 14, 1867. He was married to Miss Mary McClanahan. No children were born to them.
He is survived by three brothers, Charles A., of Kirksville, John of Elk Creek, Mo., and George, of the state of California; four sisters, Mrs. Ella Kapfer, of Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. Ann Shafer, of Jennings, La., Mrs. Emma Scearce, of Ben Davis, Mo., and Mrs. Clara Hasty, of Nixa, Mo., and a number of nieces and nephews.
Mr. Unger has been a resident of the Oak Dale community west of Brashear nearly forty years.
The body will lie in state at the Summers and Powell Funeral Home.
The pallbearers will be: Gayle Platz, Elmer Patterson, Clarence Hancock, William Mahaffay, Lee Patterson and Edgar Shelton.
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MRS. C. A. UNGER DIES; RITES TODAY
Kirksville Resident 35 years; Had Been Ill 3 Years.
Mrs. Myrtle Smith Unger, 63, wife of C. A. Unger, 602 South Florence Street died Friday evening at 6 o’clock at Fulton. She had been in impaired health three years.
The funeral is to be held this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Summers & Powell Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. Pyron McMillen, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, and burial will be made in the Highland Park Cemetery. Her body is lying in state at the funeral home.
Mrs. Unger was born Oct. 12, 1878 in Clark County, Missouri, a daughter of Thornton Sanford and Mary Elizabeth McAllister Smith. She was married Sept. 2, 1897 to Charles Albert Unger and five children were born to them.
She had lived in Kirksville thirty-five years, the family coming here from Ordway, Colo.
Surviving are her husband, three daughters, Opal, wife of Ray Howerton, Novelty; Ardis, wife of Dr. H. H. Potter, Brookfield, and Winifred, wife of Dr. U. W. Hampton, Berea, Ohio; two sons, Hubert Smith Unger, Clay Center, Kan., and Vaught Hollis Unger, Kirksville; five grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. Fred Cunningham, Edina; two brothers, W. R. Smith, Keokuk, Ia., and O. M. Smith, Aurora, Ill.
Mrs. Unger was a member of the Presbyterian Church.
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DEATH CAME TO AGED DOWNING RESIDENT
Delbert D. Updyke was born near West Jersey in Stark county, Ill., June 28, 1852. He was the son of William and Ellen Ann (Crusen) Updyke.
He moved near Bible Grove, Mo., with his parents, at the age of 12.
He was married to Isabel Orr on Nov. 16, 1876. To this union was born five daughters and two sons. He was preceded in death by his wife, three daughters, two brothers and three sisters.
Surviving are two daughters, Nellie Presser of Downing, Cecil Beckham, Hobart, Okla.; two sons, Ray Updyke of Kirksville; Fred Updyke, of Witchita Falls, Texas; also five grandchildren, Ruby Fincher of Downing; Floyd Presser of Wayland; Joe Beckman, of the U. S. Navy, Providence, R. I.; Charles and James Updyke of Kirksville; eight great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren, one brother C. W. Updyke, Dinuba, Calif.; also a number of nieces and nephews.
In early manhood he joined the Christian church at Bible Grove.
He lived thirty eight years in Scotland county as a farmer and was one of the early farmers to raise registered Red Polled cattle.
He moved to Downing in 1912 where he was engaged in the Implement and Buggy business. In 1915 he also entered the automobile business, disposing of this in 1920. Since 1920 he has lived a retired life excepting he still maintained a large apiary. He began his apiary at the age of sixteen and continued through the years selling his last bees in 1950.
For a number of years he was a director of the Bank of Downing.
His long life is attributed to his good habits and clean living. He died Dec. 4, 1952, at the home of his daughter, Nellie Presser where he had lived for some time
Funeral services were held at the Downing Methodist church Sunday, Dec. 7, at 2:00 p.m. conducted by Rev. W. E. Longstreth.
Music was furnished by Bessie Gerwig, Neva Lewis, Harry [unreadable] and Willie Curtis, accompanied by Lulu Rife.
Body bearers were Crusan Updyke, Charles Updyke, James Updyke, Floyd Presser, Loweldene Fincher and John Fincher.
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MRS. D. D. UPDYKE, 89, DEAD
Was Married to Mr. Updyke 73 Years Ago Last November
Mrs. Isabell R. Updyle, 89, one of Schuyler county’s oldest residents, died at her home at Downing Sunday evening, March 19.
Funeral services were held at the Downing Methodist church Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock, conducted by Rev. W. E. Longstreth, pastor of the Methodist church in Memphis. Interment was in the Downing cemetery.
Isabell R. Orr was a daughter of William Harrison and Sally Ann Orr. She was born on a farm two miles south of Downing on April 19, 1860. She was married to D. D. Updyke on Nov. 16, 1876. Seven children were born to them, three of whom preceded her in death.
She is survived by her aged husband, who will be 96 years old in June; two daughters, Mrs. Nellie Presser of Downing, and Mrs. Cecil Beckham, of Hobart, Okla.; two sons, Ray Updyke of Kirksville, and Fred Updyke of Hobart, Okla.; five grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
With the exception of two years spent in Memphis in the 1900s, she had been a resident of Schuyler county all her life.
Last Nov. 16 marked the seventy-third anniversary of her marriage to Mr. Updyke. She had been a member of the Methodist church in Downing the most of her lifetime.
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MRS. UPDYKE DIES IN TEXAS WHILE ON VISIT
Well-Known Kirksville Woman Succumbs to Apoplexy
Mrs. W. U. Updyke, of Kirksville, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fritz Bland, in Houston, Tex., Tuesday morning, following an attack of apoplexy according to a message received in Kirksville this afternoon by her sister, Mrs. Dora Frogge.
The body is being brought to Kirksville and funeral services will be held here Friday morning at 10 o’clock. The message said the body would arrive here at 3:53 p.m. but did not state what day, but it is expected that it will be Thursday. The place of the funeral will be announced later.
Mrs. Updyke was about 64 years old. She was quite sick with influenza last winter and never fully recovered from the effects of the disease. She had been troubled with her heart since then. She went to Houston during the Christmas holidays to spend the winter with her daughter. During the trip she contracted a deep cold and has been ill most of the time since she went there. She was stricken with apoplexy last Sunday and her condition was regarded as critical, according to a message received by Mrs. Frogge Sunday.
Mrs. Updyke had made her home in Kirksville for the past thirty-five or forty years and has many friends here who will regret to hear of her death.
She was the widow of the late W. U. Updyke who died suddenly from acute indigestion seven years ago. The family was living at 615 West Pierce street at that time, and after his death Mrs. Updyke built a cozy bungalow on her lot on East McPherson street in order to be nearer her sister.
Mrs. Updyke leaves two daughters, Mrs. Fritz Bland of Houston, and Mrs. W. R. Alexander, of Kansas City, both of whom were with her at the time of her death. She leaves three sisters, Mrs. Dora Frogge, 311 East McPherson street, Kirksville; Mrs. E. E. Knight, of San Francisco, Cal., and Mrs. Nancy Wren, of Berkeley, Cal.
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MRS. UPDYKE’S FUNERAL FRIDAY
The body of Mrs. W. U. Upkyke, who died Tuesday at Houston, Texas, will arrive in Kirksville tonight at 8:15 o’clock over the Wabash, according to a telephone message this afternoon from her daughter, Mrs. W. P. Alexander, in Kansas City.
Funeral services will be held at Summers-Flinchpaugh chapel tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock.
Mrs. W. U. Updyke, Kirksville, Missouri, Kirksville Daily Express, 11 Mar 1920, p. 1, col.3, Thursday
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PROMINENT KIRKSVILLE MAN DIES SUDDENLY
W. U. Updyke, one of Kirksvilles [sic] prominent business men and citizens, died suddenly last Saturday morning at 11:30 o’clock at his home at 615 West Pierce street. Mr. Updyke was active and apparently in good health, having been busy with business affairs since his return from California, making his death a shock to his family and many friends.
William U. Updyke was born in the state of New York, December 1st, 1845, and died in this city January 25th, 1913. Age 67 years, one month and 24 days.
When a small boy he moved with parents to Illinois where he joined the army at the early age of 16 serving in Company C. When he was 21 years old he moved to Scotland County Missouri where he resided for a number of years.
September 23rd, 1874 he was united in marriage to Miss Virginia Johnson. To them were born two daughters, Bessie and Olive, who with the wife and mother mourn because of his death. He also has two brothers and three sisters together with many friend[s] who are saddened by his departure. One brother, Mr. Delbert Updyke, attended the funeral.
Mr. Updyke moved to Kirksville in 1884. He at once became identified with the business interests of the city in which he took an active part up to the time of his death. He was a stock holder in the Savings Bank, owned a number of business houses in the city, and various pieces of residence property. He filled an important place in the business life of the city and he will be missed especially by those who were associated with him in a busines [sic] way.
In later years he and his family traveled a good deal—spending their winters for the most part in the milder climates. For the past two months he and his family were in California, having returned only ten days ago. His death, which was caused by pulmonary heart failure, came suddely [sic] and unexpectedly both to his family and to his friends.
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J. C. UPRIGHT DIES AT HOME IN KIRKSVILLE
Had Been Ill for 11 Years; Body Is Taken to Edina
James Carter Upright, 79, died this morning at his home in Kirksville following an illness of eleven years.
The body was taken to the Hudson Funeral Home at Edina and funeral services probably will be held there Sunday.
He was a son of George and Margaret Ann Upright and was born Jan. 4, 1870, in Knox county. He spent practically all his life in that county, moving to Kirksville five years ago.
He was married to Miss Stella Rule on March 2, 1902, at Macon and to this union six children were born. They are Gerald B. Upright of Newman, Ill.; Mrs. L. P. Anesi, of Kirksville; Lewis James Upright, of Billings, Mont., Mrs. Claude Statton, of Moline, Ill.; Mrs. E. J. Pickett, of Gary, Ind., and Mrs. Y. J. Stockham of Longwood, Florida. He is also survived by one brother, Thomas Upright, of Kirksville; two sisters, Mrs. Meda Hysell, of Edina, and Mrs. Callie Hogan, of Kansas; also ten grandchildren and one great grandson.
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