Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa, Thursday, April 20, 1950
Boltinghouse, Alonzo Leroy “Lonnie”
Lon Boltinghouse, 65, died on Sunday at 8:15 A. M. at his farm home, 10 miles southwest of Lenox. He had suffered a heart attack.

Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 2:30 P. M. from the Church of Christ, with Rev. Merwin Goad officiating. The Barber Funeral Home was in charge. Interment in the Fairview cemetery.

Obituary
Alonzo Leroy Boltinghouse, son of Lewis C. and Sarah Freeman Boltinghouse was born on May 12, 1884, on a farm in Grove township, Taylor county, Iowa, and passed away on April 16, 1950, at the age of 65 years, 11 months and 6 days.

He spent his entire life, with, the exception of a few months spent in North Dakota, in the same township in which he was born.

When quite a young man he united with the Blue Grove Church of Christ and was interested in the work of the church as long as services were held there.

On March 4, 1908, he was united in marriage to Miss Eva Leonard and to this union three sons were born.

Lonnie, as he was called, was one of seven sons of the Boltinghouse family. His mother and three brothers, James, Charles and Orval, preceded him in death. He is survived by his wife, Eva; three sons, Lyle, of Washington, D. G., Travis of Creston and Kenneth of Lenox; his aged father, L. C. Boltinghouse; three brothers, Joe of Ellston, Walter of Clearfield and Floyd of Lenox; his four sisters, Bertha Carter of Sharpsburg, Mae Murray of Edgeley, N, Dak., Eva Armstrong of Lenox, and Ethel Bryant of Des Moines; three grandsons, James Allen, Larry Lyle and Reldon Boltinghouse of Creston and one granddaughter, little Adena Kay Boltinghouse of Lenox.

Always a kind husband and loving father, a friend to all, he will be greatly missed by his family, many other relatives.