SPERRY, E. June 1913-1999

SPERRY, CARMACK, WILSON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 8/20/2010 at 23:15:57

E. JUNE SPERRY

CHARLES CITY, IOWA - E. June (Mrs. Dick) Sperry, 85, of 112 Cedar Circle, Charles City, died Tuesday (April 20, 1999) at the Riverside Chautauqua Guest Home, following a lingering bout of congestive heart failure.

Funeral services will be held 10:30 a.m. Monday, April 26, at the First Congregational United Church of Christ, Jackson and Ferguson Streets, Charles City, with the Rev. Jack L. Ivey, officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Charles City.

Friends may call from 2 to 9 p.m. Sunday, April 25, at the Fullerton Hage Funeral Home, 401 Blunt Street, Charles City, with the family present from 2 to 4 p.m. to greet friends. The family will also be present to greet friends one hour prior to services on Monday at the church.

Mrs. Sperry, the former E. June Carmack, was born June 2, 1913, in Blandinsville, Illinois, the daughter of Noah Arthur and Inez Marie (Wilson) Carmack. She graduated from Blandinsville High School. Shortly after her graduation, she moved to Bushnell, Illinois, in 1932.

On Sept. 6, 1936, in Peoria, she was united in marriage to Dick D. Sperry. The couple made their home in Peoria. They moved to Mason City, returned to Peoria and back again to Mason City before settling in Charles City in 1948.

Mrs. Sperry became the Society Page Editor for the Charles City Press in the early 1950s. In the late 1950s Mrs. Sperry began to work for her husband, who was a partner in the former Cordle Transportation Company. She later became a partner with her husband in the Sperry Transportation Company, serving as the vice president, secretary and treasurer. The couple retired in April of 1976. Mr. Sperry died Nov. 7, 1994, in Charles City.

Mrs. Sperry was a member of the First Congregational United Church of Christ and the Bel Canto Choir of the church. She served the church as treasurer in the late 1970s. She was a former member of the Seroptomists of Charles City and the former Charles City Country Club. In her spare time, she loved to do knitting and needlepoint, and enjoyed an interest in flowers of all types.

Living family members include two daughters and their husbands, Nancy and Dick Dommel, of Lugoff, S.C., and Sally and Bob Lebeck, of Sun City West, Ariz.; six grandchildren, Zoe Ann Dommel, Jill Lee Avery and her husband, Rick, William E. Hickok and his wife, Emiley, Bradley J. and his wife, Shelly, Robert S. Hickok and his wife, Lori and Brian D. Hickok; and one great-granddaughter, Chloe Hickok.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by a sister, Amanda Carmack; and two brothers, Willis and Harry Carmack.

Those considering an expression of sympathy may direct memorials to the Music Program at the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Charles City.

Fullerton Hage Funeral Home (515) 228-4211.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, April 23, 1999]