Correctionville News, 2 September 1981, page 3: Ira N. Mitchell of Colonial Manor Nursing Home, Correctionville, died August 25, 1981, in a Sioux City hospital after a long illness. Services were held at 2 p.m. in the First Baptist Church at Climbing Hill with Rev. Vernon Aarnes officiating. Burial was in the Westfork Township Cemetery at Climbing Hill with graveside rites conducted by Wink-Sparks Post 303, American Legion of Moville. Mr. Mitchell was born November 8, 1893, at Fonda, Iowa. He married Clara McConnell January 12, 1921, at Pierson. She died October 19, 1968. He farmed in Plymouth, Woodbury, Monona counties and lived at Climbing Hill until 1968 when he moved to the nursing home in Correctionville. He served in the army with the 327th Infantry, 82nd Div. He was a sixty-year honorary life member of Wink-Sparks Post 303 and was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Onawa. Survivors include four sons, John D. of Sioux City, Howard D. of Sergeant Bluff, Ira D. of Washta, and Neal E. of Correctionville, three daughters, Mrs. John (Wilma) Schuldt of Sioux City, Mrs. Wayne (Lila) Howard of Moville and Mrs. Marvel Hartle of LeMars, 28 grandchildren, 37 great grandchildren, and one sister, Edith Pearl Linn of Elkhorn. He was preceded in death by one grandson, Rodger Alan Mitchell in 1967.
Correctionville News, 2 September 1981, page 3: Ira N. Mitchell of Colonial Manor Nursing Home, Correctionville, died August 25, 1981, in a Sioux City hospital after a long illness. Services were held at 2 p.m. in the First Baptist Church at Climbing Hill with Rev. Vernon Aarnes officiating. Burial was in the Westfork Township Cemetery at Climbing Hill with graveside rites conducted by Wink-Sparks Post 303, American Legion of Moville. Mr. Mitchell was born November 8, 1893, at Fonda, Iowa. He married Clara McConnell January 12, 1921, at Pierson. She died October 19, 1968. He farmed in Plymouth, Woodbury, Monona counties and lived at Climbing Hill until 1968 when he moved to the nursing home in Correctionville. He served in the army with the 327th Infantry, 82nd Div. He was a sixty-year honorary life member of Wink-Sparks Post 303 and was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Onawa. Survivors include four sons, John D. of Sioux City, Howard D. of Sergeant Bluff, Ira D. of Washta, and Neal E. of Correctionville, three daughters, Mrs. John (Wilma) Schuldt of Sioux City, Mrs. Wayne (Lila) Howard of Moville and Mrs. Marvel Hartle of LeMars, 28 grandchildren, 37 great grandchildren, and one sister, Edith Pearl Linn of Elkhorn. He was preceded in death by one grandson, Rodger Alan Mitchell in 1967.
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