11/30/1976
Funeral services for Wanda Kathleen (Howard) Jones/Grubbs, who died November 30, 1976 at Collins Memorial Hospital, were held December 3 from Williams Funeral Home with Dr. Leonard E. Deaver officiating. The burial was in Graceland Cemetery.
Honorary casket bearers were Wayne Applegate, Don Bingaman, Howard Core, Con Cunningham, Herman DeHeer, Pleas Fee, C.M. Murphy and Harold Worstell. Casketbearers were Grant Core, Lloyd Karr, Palmer Krichau, Truman Sage, LeRoy Schumacher and Clarence Van Waardhuizen. Mrs. Lois Anderson was the organist and John Crawford was the soloist.
Wanda Kathleen, the only child of H. Seymour and Ella Trusler Howard was born September 3, 1910, at Newton. She attended public schools at Newton and Knoxville, having moved with her family to a farm northwest of Knoxville when she was eight years old. She graduated from Knoxville high school with the class of 1927.
She then enrolled at Iowa State University at Ames and attended for two years. She received her P.S. degree from Drake University. She began her teaching career at the age of 17, teaching in a country school called Union School. She taught in a number of schools, finally retiring in 1974 from a career at North Elementary School in Knoxville.
She continued to substitute in various schools after retirement
On October 8, 1932, she was united in marriage to Hugh Thomas Jones, Jr., at Princeton, Mo. He preceded her in death in 1975 She was a member of the National Retired Teachers Association, Delta Kappa.
Gamma Sorority, Marion Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Business and Professional Women and the First United Methodist Church of Knoxville where she was also a member of the United Methodist Women and active in its Susannah Circle.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband.
She is survived by her stepmother, Mrs. Dollie M. Howard of Altoona and several nieces and nephews.