Ernest Barnhill
DES MOINES - Ernest Barney Barnhill, 85, died Jan. 6, 2007 at Calvin
Manor in Des Moines. He was born in Albia Feb. 26, 1921.
His body will be cremated and a memorial service will be 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 9, 2007 at Calvin Community
with Rev. Ken Arentson officiating. Interment will be at Resthaven Cemetery.
Ernest moved to Ottumwa and was a resident there until 1974 when he moved to Des Moines. He served in the U.S.
Coast Guard in W.W. II and retired from Midwestern Paper in 1986 as a sales service manager in supplies and equipment.
Memberships include; Acanthus Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite Consistory, American Legion; life member, and D.A.V.,
U.C.T. Council #535; Chariton, Iowa, USCG Combat Veteran
s Association.
Survivors are his wife, Marion of Des Moines; sons, Mark of Des Moines; and Blaine of Winter Garden, Fla.; daughter,
Stacey Barnhill Schmidt of Leavenworth, Wash.; son-in-law Larry Gruwell of LeClaire, five grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his daughter, Jayne Gruwell and his parents, Ernest and Elizabeth Barnhill.
Mary Mell
Des Moines, Io., Jan. 15 - Mrs. Mary Mell, aged 95, died here today. She
was born in Pennsylvania and had a distant recollection of many of the incidents of the war of 1812. (The St. Louis Republic, January 16, 1891, page 2 - submitted by Peggy Thompson)
John C. Smith
Services will be at 11 A.M. today at Hamilton's Funeral Home for John
Calvin Smith, 47, of 3119 Grand Avenue, who died of cancer Tuesday at his home. The body will be cremated. Mr.
Smith was born in Kansas. He was Assistant Counselor at Our Primary Purposes Drug Abuse Center. Survivors
include his wife, Sharon; two daughters, Gloria Jean Smith at home and Mary Terrell of Des Moines; a son, John
Jr. of Liberty, Missouri, and three grandchildren. The family suggests that any memorial contributions be made
to Our Primary Purpose or Hospice of Central Iowa.
The Des Moines Register, Friday, December 23, 1983 [Submitted
by Frances Cooley]
Mrs. C. A. Wheeler
Atchison Globe, Atchison, Kansas, October 2, 1879
Died - At the residence of her son-in-law, Jesse D. Coplan, Mrs. C. A. Wheeler, late of Des Moines, Iowa. Funeral
from the residence, corner of Seventh and Santa Fe streets, Saturday afternoon at 3 o
clock. Des Moines Register please copy.
