Ira Wintford Seaver

Funeral services for Ira Wintford Seaver, well-known farmer and stockman 
of the Lath Branch neighborhood, who died Saturday morning, were held
yesterday at 2 p.m. at the Cheney Memorial Chapel. The county employees
attended in a body.

The services were conducted by the Rev. Claude N. Craven of the Grade
Baptist Tabernacle. A duet composed of Mrs. Leslie Wolfe and W.L. Tweedy
sang two numbers. Mrs. Oscar Covey was organist.

Internment was in Evergreen Cemetary. Pallbearers were Walter Clark,
Charles Clark, Fitz L. Barnes, Raymond Hinderliter, Harry Simmons, and
Walter Sauvain.

Mr. Seaver, a son of William and Fannie E. (Shannon) Seaver, was born on
Route 1, four miles east of the city, Dec. 20, 1877. He was married to
Edith May Gorse at Nevada, Sept. 21, 1898.

Surviving are his wife; four sons, Roy, Route 1; Glenn H., Pleasanton,
Howard I., Fort Scott, and Frank H., Jefferson City, Mo., and one
daughter, Mrs. Delbert Dikeman, Route 2. There are 11 grandchildren and
eight great-grandchildren. Four brothers and sisters are deceased.

He was the last of a family of nine children. The father operated the
first home-owned grocery store in Fort Scott during the early days.