Judith Lee STRAHORN

Judith married Robert WISKUS [Group Sheet]

Kenneth married Tressa Charlene Gravitt HALL 1 Aug 1937, Nashua, Chickasaw Co., Iowa. Tressa was born 19 Jul 1918, Ames, Story, Iowa; died 2 Aug 2002, Chandler, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried Union Cemetery, Iowa Falls, Hardin, Iowa. [Group Sheet]

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-Tressa Charlene Strahorn, 83, of Scottsdale, Ariz., and formerly of Iowa Falls, died Friday, Aug. 2, 2002, at the Chandler Care Center, Chandler, Ariz., of complications from Alzheimer's disease. Memorial services will be Friday Aug. 9, at 11 a.m. at the Linn's Funeral Chapel, Iowa Falls, with Rev. Rhoda Preston officiating. Inurnment will follow at Union Cemetery, Iowa Falls.

Tressa was born July 19, 1918, at Ames to Fred W. and Violet Hall. She graduated from the Iowa Falls Community Schools with the class of 1937. On Aug. 1, 1937, she married Kenneth R. Strahorn at the Little Brown Church, Nashua. She and her husband owned and operated Hall-Strahorn Hardware in Algona for several years. The couple moved to Iowa Falls in the early '60s where they assumed ownership and operation of the Iowa Falls Roofing Company. They retired in 1983 to Scottsdale. Tressa was an active community volunteer in Iowa Falls. She was a charter member of the Ellsworth Hospital's "Pink Ladies." She was a Past Worthy Matron of the White Shrine. She was actively involved in various guilds and circles within the First United Methodist Church.

Survivors include two daughters, Sandra Kay and her husband, Jack Nicholson, of Dallas, Texas, and Judith Lee and her husband, Robert Wiskus, of McCook Lake, S.D.; a daughter-in-law, Kathy Strahorn, of Sacramento, Calif.; nine grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Betty Tinken, of Humboldt. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Kenneth; her son, Fred; a granddaughter, Jacqueline Nicholson; a great-granddaughter, Abigail Wiskus.

The Linn's Funeral Homes, Iowa Falls Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Memorials may be directed to local Iowa Falls foundations, Alzheimer's disease or S.I.D.S.

Ray married Alva Hannah WILSON 8 Nov 1902, Hardin, Iowa. Alva was born 24 Oct 1883, Hardin, Iowa; died 10 Jun 1966, Hardin, Iowa; was buried Oak Wood Cemetery, Ackley, Franklin, Iowa. [Group Sheet]

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Past and Present of Hardin County, Iowa edited by William J. Moir. Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen, 1911.

"To the citizens of Aetna township the gentleman whose life is herein reviewed is so well known as a capable farmer and honest, upright and active member of the community, as to need no introduction. Frank P. Strahorn was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, on June 9, 1851, the son of Joseph and Eliza (Alcott) Strahorn. His father was born in 1805 and died on July 20, 1876. His mother was born in 1812, and died on December 1, 1877. His grandparents, Joseph and Alcott Strahorn, were natives of Pennsylvania, of Scotch descent, and lived to be very old, dying in their native state. (grandparents were actually Samuel Strahorn & Hannah Gheen -Ed.)

Frank P. Strahorn received a common school education. In 1874 he was married to Cynthia Bird, the daughter of Ebenezer and Eliza Bird, of Hardin county. Her father was a native of New York, and her mother of Ohio. They came to Iowa in 1865, and purchased a farm in Hardin county, on which they lived until their death. Her father died in May, 1900, her mother in March, 1880. Her grandfather was a soldier in the war of 1812. Her father's family consisted of seven children, of whom the four following are living: Ella, now Mrs. Hathaway, of Nebraska; Charles H., of Hardin county; Alice, now Mrs. Bird, married a cousin; and Cynthia, Mrs. Strahorn. The deceased are Frank W., Luther and John.

Mr. and Mrs. Strahorn began married life on their present farm, then consisting of two hundred and eighty acres, where they have continued to live and to which they have added other land, until they now own four hundred and forty acres, a highly improved farm, with substantial buildings. Mr. Strahorn is a very successful farmer and business man and one of the best known and most respected citizens of his township. He keeps a good grade of stock and feeds for the market. In politics he is a Democrat and held the office of township trustee for several years. Fraternally, he is a member of the Masons and also of the Modern Woodmen of America.

Mr. Strahorn's family consists of his wife and nine children. Mrs. Strahorn was a successful teacher in the common schools before her marriage, and three of her daughters, Nellie, Bessie and Grace, were well known teachers of Hardin county, Grace being now employed as a teacher. The children, with the dates of their birth, are as follows: Herbert, November 2, 1875; Nellie, now Mrs. Wilkinson, March 26, 1877; Harry, March 9, 1879; Ray, July 31, 1881; Bessie, now Mrs. Irwin T. Wilson, October 29, 1883; Anna, now Mrs. Frank M. Wilson, December 7, 1886; George, September 11, 1888; Grace, who attended the state normal at Cedar Falls for two terms, June 19, 1891; Lyle R., March 26, 1893.

Mr. and Mrs. Strahorn are people who have made a financial success of life and who have sacrificed nothing in the development of character to do this. They are widely read and well informed, and their family and domestic life has been very pleasant. Known to many people of the township, they are favorably thought of by all."

Franklin married Cynthia Cornelia BIRD 12 Nov 1874, Etna, Hardin, Iowa. Cynthia was born 28 Sep 1851, Michigan; died 18 Oct 1929, Iowa Falls,Hardin, Iowa; was buried Oak Wood Cemetery, Ackley, Franklin Co., Iowa. [Group Sheet]