Lust, Charlotte Adella Humphrey "Lottie" 1868-1940

LUST, HUMPHREY

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Date: 5/5/2011 at 13:30:13

Lust, Charlette Adella Humphrey “Lottie” –
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon November 4th[1940] in the United Presbyterian church for Mrs. Lottie Lust. Music was furnished by a quartet compose of Mrs. Roy Long, Mrs. Frank Maharry, Mr. Oliver Turner and Mr. Fred Henderson singing “Under His Wings”; also Mrs. Roy Long and Mrs. Vern Roll sang “The Twenty-Third Psalm”. Dr. Davidson gave a comforting message. Scripture and life of Mrs. Lust was lead by Rev. Moneymaker.
Charlotte Adella, daughter of Hugh and Martha Leslie Humphrey was born May 10th, 1868 in Benton County, Iowa and died November 1, 1940 at the hospital in Creston, Iowa.
She was educated in the country schools of Benton Command Blairstown Academy. Throughout her life she was interested in the better things of life, and when a young girl she was united with the Presbyterian Church at Scotch Grove near Fairfax. She was a loyal worker in any church with which she was affiliated and at the time of her death was a member of the Presbyterian Church at Lenox.
She was united in marriage December 28, 1905 to Jesse F. Lust. They moved to Gas City, Kansas where they lived until March 1909 when they moved to Dimmitt, Texas.
To them a daughter, Dorothy Jeanette was born. Her husband was killed by accident on April 10, 1915. She remained in Texas caring for her five step-children and her own one year old daughter, for a number of years. She came back to Lenox to care for her aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Humphrey Sr. until their death. She spent two years in Tarkio, Missouri with her daughter while she attended college. After the graduation of her daughter in 1936 she returned to Lenox, Iowa.
She is survived by her daughter, Dorothy Lust Godfrey, or Bedford, four step-children, Earl and Vern Lust of Dummitt, Tex., Mrs. Leona Stiles of Muleshoe, Texas and Loyal Lust of Klamath Falls, Oregon, one brother Benton Wade Humphrey of Hopkinton, Iowa nine grandchildren and several cousins and a host of friends. One stepdaughter, Pearl preceded her in death. Burial was in Fairfax, Iowa.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa, November 7, 1940