Rev. William H. Parsons
Born: January 10, 1887 in Iowa1
Died: June 1963 in Fort Dodge, Webster Co., Iowa
Buried: Lot 154
Lot Owner: W. H. Parsons, purchased 1943
Married: Wilma Brock on April 12, 1911 at home of W.H. Brock, Jasper Co., Iowa1
Children: Galen and Vivian
Parents: David and Mary Frost Parsons1
Retired Methodist Minister Dies Friday
The Rev. William H. Parson, 76, of Fort Dodge, retired Methodist minister died Friday at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Dodge. Services will be 1:15 p.m. Monday in Bruce's Memorial Chapel.
The Rev. Mr. Parsons is survived by his wife and one son, Galen. Mrs. Parsons was the former Wilma Brock and is a sister of Mrs. G. B. Emmack of Newton.
Burial services will be held at the Sugar Grove Cemetery Monday at 4:30 p.m. ~ June, 1963.
Wilma (Brock)Parsons
Born: March 13, 1893 near Monroe, Jasper Co., Iowa
Died: February 1979 in Fort Dodge, Webster Co., Iowa
Buried: Lot154
Lot Owner: W. H. Parsons, purchased 1943
Married: William Parsons on April 12, 1911 at home of W.H. Brock, Jasper Co., Iowa1
Children: Galen and Vivian
Parents: William and Clara (Miller) Brock
Wilma Parsons
Mrs. Wilma Parsons - Services for Mrs. Wilma Parsons, 85, Tompkins Memorial Health Center, will be at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in the Chapel on the Hill, Friendship Haven, with the Rev. Paul McKinley, chaplain, officiating.
Burial will be in Sugar Grove Cemetery at Newton. Mrs. Parsons died Wednesday morning at the health center when she had been a resident since 1976.
Friends may call at the Rose Room of Bruce Funeral Home after 7 p.m. Friday.
Surviving are a son, Galen Parsons, Fort Dodge; two grandsons and four great-grandsons.
Wilma Brock was born near Monroe and attended the rural schools there. She married the Rev. William H. Parsons in Newton in 1911. After their marriage they lived at Rock Rapids for two years and then because of the health of the Rev. Mr. Parsons they farmed near Newton.
In 1938, the Rev. Mr. Parsons returned to the ministry and served in the Fort Dodge, Cedar Rapids and Sioux City districts of the Methodist Church. The couple moved to Fort Dodge in 1956. He died in 1963.
Mrs. Parsons was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Fort Dodge, the What-So-Ever Sunday School Class of the church, Women's Christina Temperance Union and Daughters of the American Revolution. - Fort Dodge Messenger, Thursday, Feb 1979.
Vivian Clara Parsons
Born: Nov 4, 1924 in Newton, Jasper Co., Iowa
Died: March 3, 1943 in Fort Dodge, Webster Co., Iowa
Buried: Lot 154
Lot Owner: W. H. Parsons, purchased 1943
Parents: Rev. William and Wilma (Brock) Parsons
Granddaughter of Mrs. W. Brock Succumbs
Vivian Clara Parsons, of Jolley, Ia.; 18-year old
granddaughter of Mrs. W. H. Brock of this city, died this
morning in a hospital in Fort Dodge, Ia., after an illness
of several weeks of complications following scarlet
fever.
The daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. W. H. parsons of Jolley,
formerly of Jasper county, Vivian Clara was born on a farm
near Newton Nov. 4, 1924. The family later moved to
Grinnell, and in recent years has lived in Jolley where the
Rev. Mr. Parsons is a pastor of the Methodist church there.
Mrs. parsons is the former Wilma Brock.
Vivian Clara was graduated from Jolley High school in 1941. In addition to her parents and grandmother she is survived by an older brother, Galen Brock Parsons, who is serving with the U.S. army in California.
The body is being returned to the Murdoch funeral home in Newton with final arrangements for services pending arrival of the funeral party. ~ Newton Daily News, March 31, 1943.
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Parsons Rites Are Held Here Sunday Afternoon
Funeral services for Vivian Clara Parsons, 18-year-old daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Parsons of Jolley, Ia., and granddaughter of Mrs. W. H. Brock, of this city, were conducted here Sunday afternoon, from the Murdoch funeral home. The Rev. L. D. Havinghurst, superintendent of the Methodist churches of the Fort Dodge, Ia., district, officiated, assisted by Dr. Loren M. Edwards, minister of the local First Methodist church. Interment was in Sugar Grove cemetery.
Music
During the services Mrs. Maurice Rodgers, accompanied at the organ by Mrs. R. L. Jackson, sang "In the Garden" and "Good Night, Good Morning." Mrs. James Page and Mrs. Henry Efnor were in charge of the floral pieces and pallbearers were Lyle Emmack, William Brock, Worthing Brock, Ragan Brock, Delmar Emmack and Wendell Hough.
Only daughter of William and Wilma (Brock) Parsons, Vivian Clara Parsons was born on a farm near Newton Nov. 4, 1924, and died in a Fort Dodge, Ia., hospital Wednesday, March 3, 1943, at the age of 18 years, 3 months and 29 days.
Lived in Grinnell
In 1934 the family moved to Grinnell where they spent four years. In 1938 her father became the pastor of the Duncombe Methodist church for one year after which the next two years were spent in Lehigh, Ia., where the Rev. Parsons had a charge.
In Oct. 1940 the family moved to Jolley to accept the community charge where they now reside.
Vivian was graduated from the Jolley High school last spring. She was baptized in the Newton Methodist church on Palm Sunday, 1932.
In addition to her parents she is survived by her brother, Pfc. Galen Brock Parsons of the U. S. Army stationed at San Diego, Calif., her maternal grandmother, Mrs. W. H. Brock of this city and her aunt, Mrs. Myra Emmack, in addition to other relatives near Newton. ~ The Newton Daily News, March 8, 1943.
Galen and Vivian Parsons2
1. Jasper Co., Iowa Marriage Record 3 1907-1916, page 64 #5211
2. Photo courtesy of Charles Emmack.