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Essie Snyder Drake

DRAKE, SNYDER, RANKIN, EWALD, MCAULEY, TOWNSLEY, SCHNOOR, VAUGHN

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 4/12/2006 at 21:34:57

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
March 1982

ESSIE DRAKE, Des Moines

Funeral services were held this morning at Hamilton's Funeral Home in Des Moines for Essie Blanche Drake, who died March 27, 1982, at Iowa Lutheran Hospital. She was 76 years old.

Born in Greenfield, she moved to Des Moines in 1953. She was a homemaker all her life and a member of the Capitol Hill Christian Church.

Survivors include six sons, Russel Townsley of Des Moines, Glenn Drake, John Drake, Fred Drake and Larry Drake, all of Des Moines and Donavon Drake of Indianola; five daughters, Betty Rankin, Mary Jo Ewald and Janis McAuley of Des Moines, Dana Schnoor of Pine River, Minnesota and Marlys Vaughn of Sumner, Ia; 41 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

Burial was in Winterset Cemetery.

(Note: wife of Claude F. Dake, buried Winterset Cemetery)


 

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