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Agnes Stone
AGNES STONE
Brooklyn
Agnes E. Stone, 91, of Brooklyn, died Saturday evening, Sept. 6, 2014. at St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids. Funeral Mass: 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 12, at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Brooklyn, with Father Brian Shepley officiating. Burial: Calvary Cemetery, Brooklyn. Visitation: 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, Kloster Funeral Home, Brooklyn, where a parish rosary will be recited at
7 p.m.
A memorial fund has been established.
Agnes Elizabeth Sherbon Stone, daughter of James Clinton and Margaret Elizabeth Wintringer Sherbon, was born June 18, 1923, near Walker, Iowa. She graduated from the Walker Public School in 1941.
Her interest in news writing began with the high school paper, continued to the hometown paper and during World War II to a hometown newsletter to area servicemen and women. She also wrote features in the Cedar Rapids Gazette. Her news writing interest took her to the Marion Sentinel. There she met Donald Stone. They were married Aug. 9, 1947, and in 1954, they moved to Brooklyn, Iowa, where they were both employed by the Brooklyn Chronicle and the Brooklyn Paper. Her columns, "embers" and "a stone's throw," were of local interest. In addition, she served on the committees to research and write the history of Brooklyn and the history of St. Patrick's Catholic Church.
She was a member of St. Patrick's Church, its Altar and Rosary Society, the Patrician Club, the B.B.B. and a neighborhood group. She served on the Brooklyn Library board for several years and served on the board for the Brooklyn Community Fund Drive. She enjoyed doing for others, as well as tending to her flowers, both indoors and out.
Agnes is survived by her children, Jamie (Ron) Ginkens of Chariton, Donn (Jane) of Boone, Susan (Glenn) Knox of Oskaloosa, Diane (Alan) Marshall of Center Point, Kristine (Craig) Robinson of Gilman, Pat Howard of Urbandale, Traci Carney of Huxley and Anthony (Barbara) of Lansing, Mich.; 25 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 1993; her infant son, Timothy; her parents; four brothers; four sisters; and 13 stepbrothers and sisters.
Online condolences may be extended to the family at www.kloster
funeralhome.com.
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