MOMONROE-L Archives

From: "Lisa Perry" <>
Subject: [MOMONROE] NBC: Dunaway
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 18:22:39 -0500

The first article is from an unknown source with a handwritten date of
May 10, 1960. The second, related article is undated and its source
also unknown. Extracted from the newspaper article collection started
in 1879 by Mrs. Nannie Brown of Madison, Missouri.



Madison Dentist Dies



"Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the
Thompson-Mackler Chapel by Rev. A.S. Baillie, Fulton, for Dr. Edgar
Johnston Dunaway, 85, who died Thursday night at 7:3 o'clock at the
Woodland Hospital where he had been a patient for several days. Burial
was in Sunset Hill Cemetery. Dr. Dunaway had been in ill health the
past few months. He was the son of John S. Dunaway and Henrietta Noel
Dunaway and was born near Madison. He lived his entire life in the
Madison community with the exception of a short time he and Mrs. Dunaway
lived in Paris. He attended Madison public schools and Western Dental
College, Kansas City. He was married April 12, 1899, to the former Miss
Helen Davis, Madison, who survives. Dr. Dunaway received a 50-year pin
in 1955 from the Northeast Dental Association. He began to practice
dentistry in Madison in 1905 and remained there until 1944 when he went
to Paris where he practiced for 14 years, two of them with his grandson,
Dr. Bob Swartz, retiring in 1957.

He was a member of the Madison Christian Church, Madison IOOF, life
member of the Missouri Dental Association and the American Dental
Association, and a past president of the Northeast Dental Society. The
doctor was well known over the state for his fine breed of bird dogs and
judged many contests over the state. Besides his wife he is survived by
one daughter, Mrs. Bess Swartz and Joseph Paxton Dunaway, Madison; a
grandson, Dr. Bob Swartz, Paris; and two great grandchildren, Gregory
and Sarah Swartz, Paris."





Mrs. E.J. Dunaway



"Funeral services were held Tuesday for Mrs. E.J. Dunaway at 1:00
o'clock at the Thompson-Mackler Chapel by Rev. Robert Leach, minister of
the Madison Christian Church. Burial was in Sunset Hill Cemetery. Mrs.
Dunaway died in the Woodland Hospital, Moberly, where she had been a
patient for six days. Mrs. Dunaway, the widow of Madison and Paris
dentist, Dr. E.J. Dunaway, was born in Monroe County, September 1, 1876,
near Madison, the daughter of the late James Hiram Davis and Berilla
Swindell. She was a member of the Madison Christian Church. She was
preceded in death by her husband May 5, 1960. Surviving are one
daughter, Mrs. Bess Swartz; one son, Joseph Praxton Dunaway and one
sister, Mrs. Bassett Humphrey, all of Madison; one grandson, Dr. Bob
Swartz, Paris, two great grandchildren, Gregg and Sarah Swartz, Paris;
one niece, Mrs. Clifford Thompson, Columbia and one nephew, Dr. James
Humphrey, Mound City."





Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by
their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any
printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission
from Kathleen Wilham. Although public information is not in and of
itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented,
transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however quite
permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for
personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and
genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of
their patrons.



Kathleen Wilham

2 Sharon Drive

Shelbina, MO. 63468-1562

This thread:

• [MOMONROE] NBC: Dunaway by "Lisa Perry" <>