Petrick, L. Lorraine Brown Petrick 1916-2010

JARNAGIN, RANEY, REYNOLDS, REDDICK, BROWN, PETRICK, ANDREWS, GEIGER

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 11/19/2015 at 21:50:13

SOURCE: OTTUMWA COURIER, May 28, 2010, Ottumwa, Iowa
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

L. Lorraine Brown Petrick, age 93, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, died Thursday, May 27, 2010 at the Dennis and Donna Oldorf Hospice House of Mercy, Hiawatha, Iowa. At Lorraine's request there will be no services. She donated her body to the University of Iowa Department of Anatomy.

Survivors include her children from her marriage to James S. Reddick, Bonnie J. Andrews of Minnesota and son J. Howard Reddick of Illinois; a son-in-law, Gene Geiger; five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and a niece.

Lorraine was born December 9, 1916 in Perry, Iowa to Loran and Vira (Raney) Jarnagin. She was later adopted by her mother's second husband, William Howard Reynolds. During her business career, Lorraine was employed by the A & P Tea Company as a budget analyst, the West Des Moines Express in advertising, the Wall Street Journal in sales, and the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company as a business office supervisor from which she retired in 1979.

She was a member of the National Honor Society, Telephone Pioneers Manzano Club, Friends of the Library, Land of Lincoln Club, Tierra del Sol Country Club in Belen, New Mexico; past president of the West Des Moines Women's Club, past president of the Clover Hills PTA in West Des Moines, the Nobel Grand Sweet Briar Rebekah Lodge in Des Moines and past president of the Soroptimist Club in Ottumwa.

Lorraine enjoyed her volunteer work for the Agency for the Aged and as deacon for Olivet Presbyterian Church where she was a member for many years.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands, Harvey M. Brown and Fred J. Petrick; a daughter, Sherry Geiger, and a sister.

Arrangements were in the care of Stewart Baxter Funeral & Memorial Services in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Note: The obituary for her husband, Fred Joseph Petrick 1907-2001 can be found on the IaGenWeb - Linn County obituary section. He was known by many
children in Northeast Iowa as "Mombo the Clown" who appeared every afternoon on the Cedar Rapids Television weekday program called "The Dr. Max Show" from 1960 to 1981.