Wagner, Irma Lucille Sykes (1909-2001)

WAGNER, SYKES, EWING, MARTIN, HURT, BEHRENS, HARRIS, DRONSKY, EASTON, AYERS

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 2/1/2022 at 16:44:28

Daily Freeman Journal
Webster City, Iowa
Monday, October 29, 2001

Lucille Wagner, 91, Webster City, died Friday. Oct. 26, 2001 at her home. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church with Father John Flaherty, celebrant, with burial in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday at Foster Funeral Home with recitation of the rosary to begin at 6:45 p.m. followed by a scripture service at 7 p.m.

Irma Lucille Sykes, daughter of Clarence and Grace Ewing Sykes, was born Oct. 31, 1909 at Beason, Ill. Upon the death of her mother in 1912, she lived with her grandmother Sykes in Emmetsburg, Iowa, for three years. After which she came to live with her father and his new wife in the Kamrar-Blairsburg area. She was educated in the rural schools of Hamilton County and Blairsburg Consolidated School and Ellsworth College in Iowa Falls. She taught in the rural schools of Hamilton County for seven years. On Feb. 9, 1937 she married Elmer Wagner at Webster City. The couple engaged in farming in Fremont Township, except for three years when they farmed near Ackley. Elmer died April 26, 1979.

Lucille is survived by her son, Dale Wagner (Pat) of Webster City; two daughters, Melva Martin (Phil) of Cape Coral, Fla., Mary L. Hurt of Webster City, daughter-in-law, Rhonda Wagner, Webster City; 18 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandchild; four sisters, Clara Behrens, Leona Harris, Jeanette Dronsky, Shirley Easton, all of California; two brothers, Johnny Sykes of California, Joe Sykes of Blairsburg; several nieces and nephews and cousins.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by two sons, Larry J. and Marion C. Wagner, one great-grandson, Brad Wagner, one brother, Roy Sykes and one sister, Eva Ayers.

Lucille was a member of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, Rosary Society, Catholic Daughters, Farm Bureau, Daughters of the American Revolution, lifetime member of the Hospital Auxiliary and charter member of the Catholic Daughters of America. She worked in the gift shop in the Hamilton Hospital for over 20 years and had been a 4-H club leader and assistant leader.