BOOK, Lucy: Died 1982

BOOK, PEABODY, CLINGMAN, HADLEY, SASSEEN, HILL, TARRENCE, CARRIS

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Date: 8/20/2021 at 06:44:18

Fairfield Ledger
12 Aug 1982

Lucy Book, 81, dies at Linby

RICHLAND - Lucy Book, 81, Lindby, died Wednesday afternoon at her farm home near Linby. She had been ill the past six months.

Services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Gould Funeral Home in Richland with Joe Selix, Ottumwa, and the Rev. Kermit Black, Batavia, officiating. Burial will be in the Packwood Cemetery.

Friends may visit at the Gould Funeral Home Friday evening. Memorials may be made to the Cancer Fund.

Lucy Book was born Nov. 19, 1900, in Jefferson County, the daughter of John and Sylvia Peabocy Clingman. She was married April 15, 1919, to Clarence Book at Ottumwa. He died in 1973.

Survivors include five daughters: Thelma Hadley, Ollie; Ina Sasseen, Packwood; Audrey Hill, Hedrick; Helen Tarrence, Olds; and LaVon Carris, Packwood; and a son Kay Book, Packwood.

Other survivors include 21 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Book was preceded in death by her husband, an infant daughter, two sisters and four brothers.

She had lived her entire life in the Packwood area and was a member of the Linby Baptist Church and a charter member of the Zephyr Club.

(Transcribed for genealogical purposes only. I am of no relation.)