Lydia J. LANNING 1856-1921

LANNING

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 4/9/2023 at 22:13:51

Lydia Jane Lanning
(December 4, 1856 – May 27, 1921)

Mrs. John Lanning Passes
The residents of this community received the sad news Friday morning that Mrs. John Lanning, for many years a resident of this community, had passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Blanche Clevidence, in Arkansas. Mrs. Lanning had undergone an operation, from which she failed to recover, and Thursday morning, May 26, she departed upon that long voyage across the seas of eternity from which there is no returning. The body was brought to Gilmore City Tuesday evening via Humboldt, and interment made in beautiful Marble Valley Cemetery. The obituary follows: Lydia Jane Smith was born Dec. 4, 1856, in Dallas County, Iowa. In the year 1875 she was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to William Baldwin, and to this union one son was born. August 17, 1883, she was married to John Lanning. Five children were born to this union. Mr. Lanning departed this life May 22, 1914. Mrs. Lanning received her Christian training in the Quaker church. She was a noble-hearted woman, and suffered many sacrifices for her children. After a severe attach of appendicitis with other complications, she passed from this life to the next on May 27, 1921, at the age of sixty-four years, while on a visit of comfort and consolation at the home of her daughter, Blanche, at Benton, Arkansas, where she had gone to help and comfort her daughter in her recent sad bereavement.
There are left to mourn her loss: Jesse Vernon Baldwin, Gilmore City, Iowa; Aidie Maude Wade of Shoal, Ind.; Ella Mary Swain, Gilmore City, Iowa; Blanche Leah Clevidence, Benton, Ark.; Robert Irvin Lee Lanning, Roland, Iowa; Ernest Arthur Lanning of Hector, Minn.; and a step-daughter, Ethel Chantry of Des Moines, Iowa. There are also twenty-one living grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Mrs. Lanning lived in Gilmore City twenty-two years, and is well known for her kindliness, hospitality and neighborliness. [Source – Gilmore City Enterprise, Gilmore City, Iowa, Thursday, June 2, 1921, p.1]