This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0k.2ADE/3177 Message Board Post: Elba Annetta (Howard) Grosvenor February 18, 1916 - October 3, 2006 Visitation: Friday, October 6, 2006 1:00 PM until 8:00 PM 7:00 PM until 7:30 PM Prayer Service Fouts Funeral Home 5th & Normal Street Woodbine, IA 51579 Service: Saturday, October 7, 2006 10:30 AM Community of Christ 200 Chestnut Street Mondamin, IA 51557 Elba Annetta (Howard) Grosvenor was born February 18, 1916, to Marian and Emma (Wentworth) Howard in Yorkshire, Iowa. Elba lived in Oregon and Oklahoma until her father died when Elba was just five years old. Her mother remarried and the family moved to Minden, Iowa. Elba graduated from Minden High School in 1934. She received her teacher’s certificate from Iowa State Teachers College in Corning, Iowa. She taught country school for 13 years. Elba married Delbert Grosvenor on June 18, 1950, at the RLDS Church in Missouri Valley, Iowa. The couple farmed south of Magnolia until their retirement in 1992. The couple then moved to Logan. Elba was a member of the Mondamin RLDS Church and the Extension Council. Elba enjoyed cooking, gardening and sewing. Elba died on Tuesday, October 3, 2006, at Rose Vista Nursing Home in Woodbine, Iowa attaining the age of 90 years, seven months, and 15 days. Elba was preceded in death by her parents; one brother, Brent Howard; two sisters, Willetta Leabo and Evelyn Wood; and Cathy Fouts Hammitt ~ who they raised as a daughter. She is survived by her husband, Delbert of Woodbine, Iowa; Linda Fouts Sills ~ who they raised as a daughter; six grandchildren; several great grandchildren and many other relatives and friends. Funeral Service Community of Christ Mondamin, Iowa Saturday, October 7, 2006 at 10:30 am Clergy Elder Connie McWilliams Musicians Marilyn Hunter & John Carritt Selections “Peace in the Valley” “How Great Thou Art” Congregational Hymn “The Old, Old Path” Pall Bearers Jerry Biederman, Larry Birkby,Donnie Bothwell Chad Hammitt, Marion Sindt, Robert Sindt Final Resting Place Magnolia Cemetery Magnolia, Iowa Posted with permission from: Fouts Funeral Home Woodbine - Dunlap, IA www.foutsfuneralhome.com = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Elba A. (Howard) Grosvenor ©Daily Nonpareil 10/04/2006 Elba A. Grosvenor, 90, of Logan, Iowa, died on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2006, at the Rose Vista Nursing Home in Woodbine, Iowa. Elba graduated from Minden High School in 1934. Elba married Delbert Grosvenor on June 18, 1950, at the RLDS Church in Missouri Valley, Iowa. The couple farmed south of Magnolia until their retirement in 1992. The couple then moved to Logan. Elba was a member of the Mondamin RLDS Church and the Extension Council. Elba was preceded in death by her parents; one brother, Brent Howard; two sisters, Willetta Leabo and Evelyn Wood; and Cathy Fouts Hammitt, who they raised as a daughter. She is survived by her husband, Delbert of Woodbine, Iowa; Linda Fouts Sills, who they raised as a daughter; six grandchildren; several great-grandchildren and many other relatives and friends. Visitation will begin at 1 p.m. Friday with a prayer service at 7 p.m. At the Fouts Funeral Home in Woodbine. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Mondamin Community of Christ Church.