Lois Ione Carter Duncan, 1903-1988

DUNCAN, CARTER, TOMLINSON, BATCHER, SWART, TROTTER, JENSEN STARK

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Date: 5/20/2014 at 09:37:54

Lois Ione Carter Duncan
May 30, 1903
January 25, 1988

Funeral services will be today at 10 a.m. at Warner Chapel for Lois Ione Duncan, 84 rural Dickens. The Rev. Marilyn Hamilton will officiate at the services

Casket Bearers: Mike Von Ehwegen, Everett Sorenson, Delbert Dodge, Arnold Dodge, John Metcalf, Paul Sipes

Burial will be at North Lawn Cemetery, Spencer

The daughter of John and Nora Tomlinson Carter, was born May 30, 1903 in Mohall, North Dakota. Her
early years were spent in Dickens and later in Spicer, Minnesota, where she graduated from high school; after receiving her teaching certificate, she taught in Minnesota

She married Bill Batcher on May 25, 1924 and they farmed in the Dickens Community before moving to Lander, Wyoming. Mr. Batcher died on June 19, 1950

On September 14, 1957, she married John Duncan and they later lived on a farm east of Langdon. Mr. Duncan died on October 17, 1965

Mrs. Duncan was a longtime member of the Dickens United Methodist Church

Survivors include one daughter and her husband, Helen and Al Swart of Dickens; five stepchildren; a son in law, John Trotter of Casper, Wyoming; two grandchildren; two great grandsons; several step grandchildren and step great great grandchildren and; one brother, Elwood Carter of Seattle, Washington, two sisters, Beryl Jensen of Orlando, Florida and Rosemary Stark of Theresa, Wisconsin

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands, John and Bill; one daughter, Leona Trotter; one step son

The Warner Funeral Home of Spencer is in charge of arrangements

Daily Reporter
January 27, 1988