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Grundy County, Iowa Obituaries
John COPLEY
Oct 24 1926
John Copley well known and highly popular citizen of Reinbeck passed away Friday afternoon, October 22 at Allen
Memorial Hospital in Waterloo where he had been taken in a final futile to prolong his life. Mr. Copley has been
a strong and robust man all his life until the last year when circulatory trouble caused a decline in his usual
vigor. About a month ago heart trouble developed and since that time he was confined to bed suffering great pain
gradually sinking in strength. Later the circulation in one limb stopped completely and Friday morning he was taken
to the hospital where the limb was amputed in an effort to save his life. He failed to rally from the shock, however,
and the end came at 3:15 that afternoon.
Mr. Copley was born near Toronto, Canada on October 24, 1851 and would have reached seventy-five years of age had
he lived two more days. At the age of eighteen he moved to Davenport, Iowa with his parents. He was married at
Eldridge, Iowa on March 11, 1879 to Agnes Miller and a few years later they came to Grundy County, which had been
their home since, first on a farm near Morrison and later in Reinbeck. Mr. Copley was the father of eight children
who with the wife survive him. There are four sons and four daughters, Miss Ida and Burtis Copley, Waterloo, Lawrence,
Hudson, Willia, Morrison, Ellis, Reinbeck, Mrs. Anna Jackson, Cedar Rapids, Mrs. Rhoda Abel, Guttenberg, Iowa and
Allene, Vinton. these with several grandchildren, brothers, sisters, and a host of friends mourn his passing.
Many years ago he expressed a hope he might live to see his family grown before he would be called from them, that
wish gratified he was ready and willing to depart upon the last journey. He was a member of the United Presbyterian
Church and a faithful attendant at its services always. Words seem so futile to express a tribute worthy of Mr.
Copley but these few tell it all--he was a gentleman; he played fair in the strenuous game of life; he was clean
of body mind and soul and always full of consideration for others. His hopes and dreams were founded on the rock
of determination. He looked you straight in the eye and he looked neither up to the rich or down to the poor --
too brave to lie, too generous to boasting, defeat without bitterness and all life with a smile. His firmness of
character, good judgement and strict adherence to the highest standard of fairness and right won for him hosts
of friends-- as evidenced by the throngs, many of whom had come long distances to attend the funeral services which
were held in the Congregational Church on Monday afternoon by Rev. J.B. Pollock pastor of the U.P. Church, burial
was made in the Reinbeck Cemetery, [Lot 18 per Grundy County, Iowa Grave Records. - submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
June I. RHOADS, 72, Kansas City,
MO, in Platte County, passed away of cancer on Tuesday, October 20, 1998, at her daughter's home. Memorial services
will be 10 a.m. Saturday, October 24, at Engelkes/Abels Funeral Home, Grundy Center, IA; interment in Rose Hill
Cemetery, Grundy Center. Arrangements: Heritage Funeral Home, Parkville, MO. [--
Kansas City Star, The (MO) - October 23, 1998, contributed by A. Newell. ]
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