OBITUARY - Mason City Globe-Gazette - March 18, 1942 Mason City, Iowa
Hold Funeral Rites for George M. Bly
CRESCO—Funeral services were held Wednesday, at the Bradley funeral home for George Myron Ely, 86, who died at his home in Cresco Sunday afternoon. The Rev. George W. Turner of the Methodist church officiated, with burial at New Oregon cemetery, three miles south of Cresco. Mr. Bly was born August 4, 1855, at St. Anthony Falls, now, Minneapolis. Minn., a son of Charles S. and Julia Pepin Bly, who moved to the village of New Oregon, Howard county, Iowa, the following year. There he attended the village school which was held in various buildings and later in the abandoned Cole hotel. He was married twice, both wives having preceded him in death many years ago. He had five children by the first marriage, four of whom survive. Alvin of Austin, Minn., Leslie, Roland, and Mrs. M. E. Yarrington, all of Cresco, and 33 grandchildren. He leaves one sister, Mrs. W. A. Lucas of Dexter, Minn. Two brothers and three sisters preceded him in death.
Hold Funeral Rites for George M. Bly
CRESCO—Funeral services were held Wednesday, at the Bradley funeral home for George Myron Ely, 86, who died at his home in Cresco Sunday afternoon. The Rev. George W. Turner of the Methodist church officiated, with burial at New Oregon cemetery, three miles south of Cresco. Mr. Bly was born August 4, 1855, at St. Anthony Falls, now, Minneapolis. Minn., a son of Charles S. and Julia Pepin Bly, who moved to the village of New Oregon, Howard county, Iowa, the following year. There he attended the village school which was held in various buildings and later in the abandoned Cole hotel. He was married twice, both wives having preceded him in death many years ago. He had five children by the first marriage, four of whom survive. Alvin of Austin, Minn., Leslie, Roland, and Mrs. M. E. Yarrington, all of Cresco, and 33 grandchildren. He leaves one sister, Mrs. W. A. Lucas of Dexter, Minn. Two brothers and three sisters preceded him in death.
OBITUARY - Mason City Globe-Gazette - March 18, 1942 Mason City, Iowa
Hold Funeral Rites for George M. Bly
CRESCO—Funeral services were held Wednesday, at the Bradley funeral home for George Myron Ely, 86, who died at his home in Cresco Sunday afternoon. The Rev. George W. Turner of the Methodist church officiated, with burial at New Oregon cemetery, three miles south of Cresco. Mr. Bly was born August 4, 1855, at St. Anthony Falls, now, Minneapolis. Minn., a son of Charles S. and Julia Pepin Bly, who moved to the village of New Oregon, Howard county, Iowa, the following year. There he attended the village school which was held in various buildings and later in the abandoned Cole hotel. He was married twice, both wives having preceded him in death many years ago. He had five children by the first marriage, four of whom survive. Alvin of Austin, Minn., Leslie, Roland, and Mrs. M. E. Yarrington, all of Cresco, and 33 grandchildren. He leaves one sister, Mrs. W. A. Lucas of Dexter, Minn. Two brothers and three sisters preceded him in death.
Hold Funeral Rites for George M. Bly
CRESCO—Funeral services were held Wednesday, at the Bradley funeral home for George Myron Ely, 86, who died at his home in Cresco Sunday afternoon. The Rev. George W. Turner of the Methodist church officiated, with burial at New Oregon cemetery, three miles south of Cresco. Mr. Bly was born August 4, 1855, at St. Anthony Falls, now, Minneapolis. Minn., a son of Charles S. and Julia Pepin Bly, who moved to the village of New Oregon, Howard county, Iowa, the following year. There he attended the village school which was held in various buildings and later in the abandoned Cole hotel. He was married twice, both wives having preceded him in death many years ago. He had five children by the first marriage, four of whom survive. Alvin of Austin, Minn., Leslie, Roland, and Mrs. M. E. Yarrington, all of Cresco, and 33 grandchildren. He leaves one sister, Mrs. W. A. Lucas of Dexter, Minn. Two brothers and three sisters preceded him in death.
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