LICHTY, Belle E. 1889-1973

SMITH, HOGER, PHILLIS, DOBSON, LOONAN, COCKERHAM

Posted By: Merikay Mestad (email)
Date: 8/22/2009 at 17:59:15

Funeral services for Mrs. Belle E. Lichty, 83, of 1424 Hawthorne Ave., are pending at the Locke Funeral Home.

She died at Americana Nursing home Thursday at 3:30 a.m. of complications of age.

Mrs. Lichty was born at Berlin, Pa., April 8, 1889, to George and Mary Hoger [sic] Smith, and was married to John D. Lichty Sept. 2, 1915, in Waterloo.

She formerly taught school in Orange township, and was a member of the Church of the Brethren.

Survivors include one son, John S., 2723 E. 4th St.; four daughters, Mrs. John Phillips, Golden, Colo., Mrs. Lorene Dobson, Ft. Collins, Colo., Mrs. Daniel Loonan, Gilbert, and Mrs. Raymond Cockerham, 1413 Hawthorne Ave; two brothers, Harry Smith and Claude Smith, both of Berlin, Pa.; 26 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, an infant son, three brothers and three sisters.

Friends may call after noon Friday at the Locke Funeral Home.

“Mrs. Belle E. Lichty,” Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, Iowa (5 Apr 1973)