Peery, Della W. 1902-1991

PEERY, HYNDMAN, LAMM, STEVENS, DAMMAN, WADE, IRWIN, BOOTHE

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Date: 7/11/2007 at 15:05:34

Della W. Peery

Funeral services were Della Wade Peery, 88, of the Newton Health Care Center, a well-known poet, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at the First Christian Church.

The Rev. Ray Barnett, pastor of the church, will conduct services. Burial will be in Colfax Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Wallace-Pence Funeral Home until 10 a.m. Saturday when they may visit at the church. Visitation with the family will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Memorials to the First Christian Church will be accepted.

She died Thursday morning at the Health Care Center.

Survivors are a daughter, Elma Hyndman of Newton; eight grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren; two sisters Ila Lamm, of Commerce City, Colo. and Jesse Stevens of Colfax and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Elmer, in 1979, a daughter, Wyonne Damman Goodsell, a brother, Fred Wade, and two sisters, Bertha and Hazel.

Mrs. Peery, who had been a rural school teacher in Jasper County for 11 years, was a member and past president of the Jasper County Writers Inc., co-chairman of the book "Jasper County Yesteryears," and had written many poems which were published in "Lyrical Iowa," the Woman's Club of Iowa brochures and local newspapers.

She had two books published by Young's Publishing Company in Virginia; had material which appeared in "Contemporary Poets of America" and "Poems for Children;" Conquests Magazine; a magazine for the Church of the Nazarene; "Youth," "The Iowan" and "The Instructor" and articles in "Child's Life."

She was a member of the Colfax and Galesburg Christian Churches, Collegiate Presbyterian Church in Ames, First Christian Church in Newton, and was a member and past worthy matron of the Monroe Order of Eastern Star.

The daughter of Andrew Guy and Nancy Anne Irwin Boothe Wade, she was born Dec. 6, 1902 in Colfax, was graduated from Colfax Community High School and attended Drake University in Des Moines.

She was married to Elmer Perry May 28, 1922 in Newton.

She had resided on a farm North of the Monroe for many years prior to moving to Searsboro in 1971 and to Newton in 1981. ~ The Newton (IA) Daily News, May 1991