Lowell E. COCKRILL ca 1891-1965

COCKRILL, LILLARD

Posted By: Ruth Tower (email)
Date: 11/30/2005 at 11:22:44

Funeral services for Lowell E. Cockrill, 74, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Ralph Hindman officiating. Further services will be held at La Grange, Mo., with burial in the Dover, Mo., Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Sievers Funeral Home, Humboldt, from 7 p.m. Friday until 11 a.m. Sunday when the body will be taken to the church.

Mr. Cockrill, a former longtime superintendent of the Livermore Schools, died Thursday at a hospital in Rochester, Minn., following a short illness.

Mr. Cockrill was born and educated in Platte County, Mo. He attended William Jewell Academy at Liberty, Mo., and graduated from State Teachers College, Kirksville, Mo. He received his master's degree from Iowa State University, Ames. He taught in Cincinnati, Iowa, Weldon, and in 1928 he came to Livermore as the superintendent of schools, retiring in 1958.

In 1918 he married Anna Lillard who died in 1958.

Surviving are three sons, David, Rochester, Minn., John, Chicago, and Sam, LaMirada, Calif.; six grandchildren; a great-grandchild, and three brothers, Tom, Smithville, Mo., Everett, Porintgon, Wyo., and Robert, Platte City.

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