Howard "Blackie" Lull (1982)

LULL, TAYLOR, OGLESBEE, STRABLE, CASPER, MARTIN, BUSCH, DUBOIS, YUILL

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 9/16/2006 at 17:28:24

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, April 21, 1982

A funeral service was held Tuesday, April 20, at Collins Funeral Home for Howard "Blackie" Lull of Winterset, who died April 17 at Madison County Memorial Hospital. He was 85 years old.

Born in Madison County on July 22, 1896, he was the son of Leonard and Lauretta Oglesbee Lull.

Mr. Lull was married three times. His first wife was Zula Fern Taylor. He married Grace Strable in Des Moines on Oct. 24, 1928. Grace died in 1962 and Mr. Lull married his third wife, Beulah Casper Martin in Grant City, Mo. in 1963.

Mr. Lull was a lifetime resident of this county, where he worked as a custodian and quarry worker. He later served as a Justice of the Peace for over 22 years. He was a member of the Methodist Church, joining the Patterson Methodist Church in 1905.

He was preceded in death by his parents; second wife, Grace; son, Raymond Dale Lull; 6 brothers and a sister.

Survivors include his wife, Beulah of Winterset; two sons, Dean and Jack of Des Moines; three daughters, Jo Ann Busch of Macksburg, Marjorie DuBois of Des Moines and Darlene Yuill of Mulberry, Ind.; 12 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

Rev. David Livingston officiated at the funeral service. Burial was in Mt. Pelier Cemetery, Patterson.

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