Lucille (Crabtree) Van Wey Miller - 1898-1990

CRABTREE, KNEESKERN, VAN WEY, MILLER, CANNON, GILBERT, BULMAN, MONTHEI

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 8/17/2011 at 13:55:58

SOURCE: Waukon, Iowa WAUKON DEMOCRAT, January 18, 1990
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Funeral services for Lucille Rosella Miller, age 91, of Waukon, Iowa will be held on Saturday, January 20 at the Martin Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Larry Olson conducting the 1:30 p.m. services. Burial will be in the Oakland Cemetery. Casket bearers were David Cannon, Donald van wey, Robert van Wey, Charlesw Van Wey, David Schwinefus, Tharin Schwinefus, John Cannon, and Frank Cannon.

Lucille Rosella, daughter of Arlo and Elma (Kneeskern) Crabtree, was born October 29, 1898 near Castalia, Iowa in Bloomfield Township in Winneshiek County. She attended rural Bloomfield School. On August 27, 1913, she married Claude Van Wey. Claude died October 2, 1932. On February 11, 1936, she married Lawrence Miller in Waukon, Iowa. They lived on the farm south of Waukon until moving to Waukon around 1960. Lawrence died April 23, 1970. She was a homemaker and a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Waukon, Iowa.

Lucille died Wednesday, January 17, 1990 at the Good Samaritan Center in Waukon, Iowa. In addition to her two husbands, Lucille was preceded in death by her parents, a son John Van Wey in 1975; a daughter, Derevia Van Wey in infancy; a step-daughter, Marie Monthei, a grandson, Jimmy, and two great grandchildren, Tina and Neil; 6 brothers, Alfred Crabtree, Archie Crabtree, George Crabtree, Clarence Crabtree, Irvin Crabtree, and Arthur
Crabtree; and 3 sisters, Elsie, Nettie, and Mary.

Lucille is survived by a son, Lester Van Wey of Postville, Iowa; 2 daughters, Catherine Cannon of Manchester, Iowa and Lilia Gilbert *town not given * a step-daughter, Dorothy Bulman of Ames, Iowa; 17 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren and 6 great-great grandchildren.