Alva Marco, son of Francis Marion and Melinda Davis Van Horn, was born at Welton, Iowa, March 29, 1869, and died at a hospital in Pawhuska, Okla., March 30, 1946.
Most of Mr. Van Horn's boyhood was spent at Welton, Iowa. While attending Milton College, Milton, Wis., he was a member of an evangelistic quartet. He lived a worthy, noble life. He was married to Miss Mabel Curtis.
Close survivors are his wife; five children: Willis, Maurice, Mrs. Winifred Clarke, Mrs. Chloe Hemphill, and Mrs. Josephine Matthews; two brothers, Willard and Edgar D.; and three sisters, Mrs. Rachel Davis, Mrs. Myrtle Furrow, and Mrs. Orra Vester.
His body was brought to Milton, Wis., for funeral services and burial in charge of his pastor, Rev. Elmo Fitz Randolph, and Rev. Edwin Ben Shaw and the Free and Accepted Masons.
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