Wilma Crock 1901-1961

CROCK, PALMER, SUMMERS, HIBBITT, ARTHUR

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 11/9/2019 at 08:43:00

June 1, 1961 - The Tipton Conservative

Funeral services for Mrs. Louis (Wilma Laura) Crock, 60, were held May 26 at the Sheets and Dahn funeral home in Tipton with Father Eugene Hoenig of St. Mary's church of Iowa City in charge. The Tipton Women of the Moose provided the committal services at Fairmont cemetery, Davenport.

Pallbearers were Ab Petersen, Donald Hansen, George Tevis, Edgar LaRose, Marvin Mallie and Martin Kipp. Mrs. Wendell Willer was vocalist and Mrs. Irma Crawford, organist. The Ladies of the Moose were in charge of flowers.

Mrs. Crock died suddenly at the home of her mother-in-law, Mrs. William Crock at Iowa City May 23.

The daughter of Fred and Mary Palmer, she was born Oct. 17, 1901 at Maquoketa. She was graduated from Davenport high school in 1919. She was married to Emmett Summers and, after his death, was married to Louis Crock in Aledo, Ill., in 1943. She had lived in Davenport, Mechanicsville and on a farm west of Tipton since her marriage.

She was a member of the Women of the Moose lodge in Tipton and the Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

She is survived by her husband, 2 sisters, Mrs. Gladys Hibbitt, Spokane, Wash. and Mrs. Helen Arthur, Pittsburgh, Penn.; a brother, Charles E. Palmer, Milan, Ill., and 2 stepsons.

She was preceded in death by her parents, a son, Edward, who died at the age of 9 and a sister.