The obituary below is from my grandfather Louis Ashworth's newspaper clippings. George was Louis' brother. The article appeared in the Mt. Vernon Democrat on December 13, 1948.

Death Ends Long Public Life Career
G. A. Ashworth Funeral Rites To Be Tuesday

George A. Ashworth, 72, retired Mt. Vernon businessman, treasurer of the Mt. Vernon Board of School Trustees, former Posey county treasurer, former Mt. Vernon councilman and a powerful figure in Posey county Democratic politics for many years, died at 11:30 p. m. Saturday at his home at 118 West Ninth street.

He had been in failing health for the last five years and seriously ill of a heart ailment for the last 14 months. Time and time again his remarkable vitality had caused him to rally after his life had been despaired of.

Rites On Tuesday
The body is at Short Funeral Home and will remain there through the funeral service at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon in the Short chapel, Rev. F. T. Johnson, First Methodist minister, will conduct the service. Burial will be in Bellefontaine cemetery.

Surviving are the wife, nee Mae Hurley, whose marriage to Mr. Ashworth took place 50 years ago last October; two daughters, Mrs. Louise A. Baldwin, a federal employee in Washington, D.C., and Miss Mae H. Ashworth, New York City, assistant editor of Friendship press; a son, Geo. Ashworth, Terre Haute, football coach of Wiley High school there; three grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Lillian Reagin, Mt. Vernon, and a brother, Louis Ashworth, Midlothian, Ill., who will arrive here from Bradenton, Fla., where he is spending the winter.

Born in Mt. Vernon
The deceased was a native of Mt. Vernon, the son of Andrew Jackson Ashworth and Sallie Green Ashworth, representatives of two of this community’s oldest families. The mother died five years ago at the age of 89 years.

Mr. Ashworth’s entire life had been spent in his native city and for 43 years he had resided at the West Ninth street address where he died. As a young man he was an employee of local grocery stores until he established his own grocery store at Mill and Seventh streets.

Later he erected the modern store building at 819 Main street, present location of Sam Noon’s North Side Market, where he continued in the grocery business until his retirement five years ago. In addition to his mercantile business he operated a glove factory for a number of years.

Democratic Leader
Popularity that was founded on the bedrock of integrity and friendliness made his entrance into politics a foregone conclusion and for years he was a Democratic power in Posey county. He served as a very capable county treasurer from 1921 to 1925 and following his term of office guided the destinies of Posey county Democracy in a period of repeated victories as chairman of the Democratic central committee.

He was a former Mt. Vernon city councilman.

Upon the death of his friend and political associate, Attorney William Espenschied, he was elected a Mt. Vernon school trustee to fill Attorney Espenschied’s unexpired term and became a school board member in February, 1935.

11 Year School Trustee
He was elected and re-elected for four terms of three years each to bring his total period of competent service to the school and city of Mt. Vernon to almost 14 years.

During all of that period he was treasurer of the Board of School Trustees, an office he held at the time of his death.