This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#203580) Guy Jamison 1889--1970 <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=203580> AUTHOR: volunteer DATE: 9/11/2008 at 21:19:09 Surnames: JAMISON,VANDEVORT,PEYMER,GREENE,WARREN,WHEELER,GRIFFITH,RICKERT,FISHER,HERRICK,HARPER,OGLE Guy Jamison Source: The Wapello Republican, Thursday, April 9, 1970 Funeral services will be held today (Thursday) for a prominent community leader, Guy Jamison, 80. The Rev. James Johnson of the First Presbyterian Church, assisted by the Rev. Frank Greenwood, Morning Sun, will officiate at the 2 p.m. service at the Presbyterian church in Wapello. Guy C. Jamison was born July 1, 1889, in Wapello, the son of Edwin and Mary Belle Vandevort Jamison, on the farm south of town homesteaded by the grandparents Matheny and Martha Peymer Jamison. He was married to Lena Greene who preceded him in death in 1920. On June 3, 1925, he was married to Maude Warren at West Burlington. Death occurred early Monday, April 6, 1970, at his farm home where he had resided his entire lifetime. Mr. Jamsion, a retired farmer, was elected to the board of directors of the Farmers Elevator and Exchange in 1929 and president Jan. 5, 1933, and was serving in that capacity at the time of his death. He recently retired from the Louisa County Board of Supervisors, where he served as a member and chairman for 17 years. He served 25 years on the Wapello Community School Board, and was president of the County Board of Education for several years. Mr. Jamison was a member of the board of the First Presbyterian church; director of the State Bank of Wapello; member of the County Welfaire Board; Farm Bureau; and belonged to the Louisa County Historical Society. In 1963, he was appointed to the Mississippi Parkway Commisison by Gov. Hughes. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Maude Jamison; four daughters, Mrs. George (Mary Ellen) Griffith, and Mrs. Jack Wheeler (Marjorie) both of Morning Sun; Mars Dale (Esther) Rickert and Mrs. Leslie (Martha Lou) Fisher, both of Wapello; 13 grandchildren and a gret-grandson; three brothers, Hal, West Burlington; Orin, Story City; and Donald, Apache Junction, Ariz.: three sisters Mrs. Bernice Herrick, Phoenix, Ariz., and Mrs. Dorothy Harper and Mrs. Helen Ogle, both of Sioux Falls, S.D. He was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters and and an infant daughter. Interment will be in the family plot at Bethel Cemetery near Newport. A memorial has been established to the Wapello First Presbyterian church.