Luko, Aurvilla E. (Bales) 1908-2004

LUKO, BALES, LOUGH, MODRELL, CAROTHERS, LAWSON, WILLIAMS, MODRELL, SPURGEON, KINDER

Posted By: Barbara Hug
Date: 3/30/2005 at 16:19:10

Aurvilla E. Luko, 95, of Newton died Monday, July 12, at Skiff Medical Center in Newton.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at Wagler Funeral Home, 304 W. Jefferson St. in Bloomfield. The family will greet friends from 10 a.m. Friday until the time of the service at the funeral home. The Rev. James Wakelin of the Christian Church in Bloomfield will officiate the services. Burial will be at I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Bloomfield.

Friends may call from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at Wallace Family Funeral Home in Newton. The family will be available from 6 to 8:30 p.m. A prayer service will be held at 7 p.m. at Wallace Family Funeral Home in Newton. Memorials will be accepted to Hospice of Jasper County or to Skiff Home Care and may be left at the funeral homes.

The daughter of David S. "Vessie" and Etta I. Lough Bales, she was born Nov. 9, 1908, in Davis County. She was a graduate of Bloomfield High School in Bloomfield in 1929. She received a teaching certificate from Parsons College. On Oct. 22, 1932, she married John L. Luko in Bloomfield. Prior to her marriage, she was a teacher in the Davis County country schools. After moving to Newton, she was a cook in the Newton Community School District.

Mrs. Luko was a member of Locust Grove Church in Davis County and Locust Grove Ladies Aide. She made quilts for the needy with the Locust Grove Ladies Aide and enjoyed sewing, crocheting, scrapbooking, making photo albums, collecting buttons and writing to her pen pals. She grew up in Davis County and Bloomfield until she moved to Newton in 1961.

Survivors include two sons and a daughter-in-law, J.D. (John) Luko of Newton and Rex and Myrna Luko of West Des Moines; two daughters and a son-in-law, Bonnie Modrell of Burlington and Helen and Dick Carothers of Ottumwa; six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; seven great-great-grandchildren; two step-brothers and sisters-in-law, John and Lorraine Lough of Bloomfield and Charles and Donna Lough of Vinton; and two step-sisters, Silvia Lawson and Betty Williams, both of Bloomfield.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; a son-in-law, Mike Modrell; a grandson; a brother, Leonard Bales; two sisters, Romera Loar and Cora Mae Spurgeon; a step-brother, Richard Lough; and step-sister, Leetta Kinder. ~ Newton (IA) Daily News, Wednesday, July 14, 2004