Spading, Albert 1875-1960

SPADING, JEPP, ORMISTON, METZ, ROUDABUSH, PAYNTER, TIMM, DEBRIEK

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 12/12/2017 at 16:43:30

The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register
Aug. 25, 1960

ALBERT SPADING

Albert Spading, 85, died Monday, August 15 at the Community hospital at Grinnell. He was hospitalized in June, culminating a sickness of two and a half years from which he never recovered.

Funeral services were conducted Thursday, Aug. 18, at two o'clock at the Grace Methodist church in charge of the Rev. F.J. Peters, pastor of the Trinity Lutheran church of Malcom. Organist was Leo Shuler.

Interment was in the Trinity Lutheran cemetery at Malcom. Serving as casket bearers were Edward Behounek, Harry Bauman, Clifford Metz, James Wacha, Claire Meyer and Vere Osborne. In charge of the flowers were Mrs. Lillian Brannian, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Weaver and Mr. and Mrs. Claude Shaffer.

Albert Spading, son of Theodore and Fredricka Spading, was born June 13, 1875 in New Buffalo, Michigan. It was in the Evangelical Lutheran church in this town that he was brought for baptism and confirmation following his instruction in the Lutheran expression of the Christian faith.

While a young man, he left his home and came to Iowa to follow his chosen profession, farming. His first years in Iowa were spent working on farms in the Malcom and Sheridan areas.

On February 22, 1906, he was united in marriage with Mary Kathryn Jepp at her parents' home in Tama county. They immediately began farming southeast of Brooklyn where they resided until the purchase of their present home where they had lived the past 47 years.

Besides his widow, he is survived by eight children, Edith at home, Ross of Malcom, Harvey of Victor, Marvin of Marengo, Mrs. Myrtle Ormiston of Brooklyn, Mrs. Clark (Kathryn) Metz of Momence, Ill., Mrs. Robert (Marie) Roudabush of Brooklyn and Mrs. Paul (Gladys) Paynter of Brooklyn, besides two sisters, Mrs. Ida Timm and Mrs. Lena Debriek, both of Michigan City, Ind., and one brother, Herman Spading of Salt Lake City, Utah and 22 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, one sister and four brothers.