Mrs. Monk died Wednesday, Nov. 14, at a Sterling nursing home.
She was born May 30, 1901, in near New Albia, Iowa, in Marion County, Iowa, the daughter of John T. and Blanche Sherwood Monteith, moving to the Haxtun area in May 1903 via a freight train and educated in Haxtun schools.
She worked at a drug store prior to her Feb. 28, 1918 marriage to Edward Monk when the couple began farming northwest of Haxtun. Mr. Monk died in 1928, and on April 23, 1930, she married Elmer "Pat" Monk. He died in 1959.
Mrs. Monk was a member of Haxtun United Methodist Church, Rebekah Lodge, Senior Citizens Club and past member of the Farm ers Union.
She is survived by two daughters Muriel Salvador of Yuma and Mary Mae Ahnstedt of New Plymouth, Idaho; four grandchildren; 13 great grandchildren; and two great-great grandchildren.
Thompson Mortuary, Haxtun,
was in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Monk died Wednesday, Nov. 14, at a Sterling nursing home.
She was born May 30, 1901, in near New Albia, Iowa, in Marion County, Iowa, the daughter of John T. and Blanche Sherwood Monteith, moving to the Haxtun area in May 1903 via a freight train and educated in Haxtun schools.
She worked at a drug store prior to her Feb. 28, 1918 marriage to Edward Monk when the couple began farming northwest of Haxtun. Mr. Monk died in 1928, and on April 23, 1930, she married Elmer "Pat" Monk. He died in 1959.
Mrs. Monk was a member of Haxtun United Methodist Church, Rebekah Lodge, Senior Citizens Club and past member of the Farm ers Union.
She is survived by two daughters Muriel Salvador of Yuma and Mary Mae Ahnstedt of New Plymouth, Idaho; four grandchildren; 13 great grandchildren; and two great-great grandchildren.
Thompson Mortuary, Haxtun,
was in charge of arrangements.
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