Rev, Fred L. Penny (1910 - 1994)

PENNY, LUCAS, JAMES, SMITH, POWELL

Posted By: County Coordinator (email)
Date: 2/18/2022 at 11:04:19

Fred Penny, 84
Fred L. Penny, 84 of 1925 Walnut St., died Monday, Sept 26, 1994, at his home after a long illness.

Burial will begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Oakland Cemetery. Funeral services will begin at 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Lewis E. Grady Jr. will officiate.

Visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. today at George L. Gay Funeral Home. Memorial donations may be made to a fund in his name.

The Rev. Penny was born May 1, 1910, in Chester, Ill., to George Nicholas and Amanda (Lucas) Penny. He received his bachelor’s degree from Shurtleff College, Alton, Ill.; his master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and his doctorate degree from Payne Theological Seminary, Xenia, Ill.

He was the minister of AME churches in the Illinois communities of Chester, Grand Tower, Elkville and Sparta and the Iowa communities of Muscatine and Washington. He served for 36 years at the Bethel AME Church in Iowa City.

Survivors include three daughters, Dianna Penny of Iowa City, Ruth “Jane” Penny and Barbara Penny James and her husband Frederick John James, all of Oakland, Calif.; three sons, the Rev. Fred “Nick” of East Moline, Ill., John and his wife Elinor of Minneapolis, and Joseph and his wife Tami of Iowa City; two sisters, Lola “Ruth” Smith of Chicago, and Lucille Powell of Hammond, Ind.; and seven grandchildren.
(Source: Iowa City Press Citizen (Iowa City, Iowa) 27 Sep 1994, Tue pg. 16)