LEPLEY, Cora 1869-1965

LEPLEY, WALTON

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 2/25/2015 at 07:24:41

Mrs. Cora Lepley Dies In Illinois

Mrs. Cora Lepley, wife of the late Ellet Lepley, died last Wednesday night at a nursing home in Oak Park, Ill. She was 95 years old.

Services were held Saturday at the Methodist church in Beaman. Burial was in Oakland cemetery, Beaman.

Mrs. Lepley was born at New Providence, Iowa, May 29, 1869. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Walton. On October 3, 1895, she and Ellet Lepley were married. They resided in their farm home two miles north of Beaman during their married life. Mr. Lepley died in 1946.

Survivors are a son, William M., State College, Pa.; three daughters, Mrs. Milvoj Hasek, Berwyn, Ill.; Mrs. A. W. Martinson, Columbia, Mo.; Mrs. Maude Lynch, Conrad; a sister, Miss Estella Walton, San Francisco; 10 grandchildren; and 24 great-grandchildren.

Besides her husband she was preceded in death by two sisters, five brothers and a son.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 21 January 1965, pg 8