LORD, James Franklin

LORD, HARRIS, SLIGAR, FRAKES

Posted By: Robert Allen Lord
Date: 4/13/2017 at 10:31:13

Percival Farmer Dies at Hospital - James Lord, Resident of Iowa All His Life Was Ill Several Months.

James Franklin Lord, 60, native of Percival, Iowa, died at St. Mary's hospital here at 11:56 o'clock Wednesday night after an illness of several months. Complications were given as the cause of death. Mr. Lord became seriously ill on May 15, 1934, failed steadily until his death.

He was born December 7, 1873, the son of Mr. and Mrs. V. W. Lord of Percival. On December 30, 1896, he was married to Emma A. Harris, who survives him, in Nebraska City. He has followed the occupation of farming all his life.

Mr. Lord is survived by four children, Mrs. David Sligar, Westboro, Mo., and Mrs. George Frakes, Asa E. Lord and Sturgis A. Lord, all of the Percival neighborhood. Four brothers, one sister and four grandchildren also survive.

Mr. Lord was affiliated with the Assembly of God religious faith and had been township clerk of Benton township, Fremont county, Iowa.

Funeral services will be held at the home near Percival at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon with Mrs. Inez Ferrias minister of the Gospel Tabernacle here, in charge. Burial will be in Grand View cemetery near Percival.

The body was removed to the Fassbender funeral home in Nebraska City.

~ submitted by Robert Allen Lord - February 2010