Eva Elizabeth Cockill 1870-1945

TOWNSEND, LEEK, VANDERHAM, LEGGETT, WILLARD, ZEADOW

Posted By: Debbie Goddard (email)
Date: 5/12/2019 at 14:03:04

Funeral services for Eva Leek, Center Junction, were held in the Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello, at 1:30 pm Sunday. A.H. Schroeder, student pastor of the Center Junction Presbyterian Church officiated. Burial was made in the Scotch Grove Cemetery.

Eva Elizabeth Cockill, a lifelong resident of Jones County was born Oct. 12, 1870 near Johnsontown. She was the daughter of Joseph and Hannah Cockill. She was married to Andrew Jackson Townsend Nov. 27, 1884, who preceded her in death March 20,1914.

On August 16, 1919 she was united in marriage to Stephen A Leek. She was left a widow for the second time, Dec. 10,1921.

She was the mother of ten children, five of whom survive. One son gave his life in the service of his country in World War I, December 11, 1917.

The children who mourn the passing of their loved one are: Percy Dell Vanderham of Hawarden, Mrs. George Zeadow and Harvey Townsend of Center Junction, Clara Bell Leggett of Scotch Grove, and Ira Townsend of Worthington, Minn. One sister, Mrs. Clara Willard, Marshall, Minn., also survives.

There were 28 grandchildren, of whom 23 are living. She also leaves 31 great grandchildren.

For 51 years, Mrs. Leek lived in the same house in Center Junction. She died at Mercy Hospital, Anamosa, at 11 p.m., Nov. 22, 1945, following a brief illness.

Mr. and Mrs. Ira J. Townsend of Worthington, Minn; Mr. and Mrs. Vanderham and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Vanderham and Mrs. Minnie Henrichs, all of Hawarden, attended the funeral of Mrs. E. E. Leek.

-From the Anamosa Eureka Newspaper, Anamosa Iowa, Nov. 29, 1945