Mary Luvenia Moore (1929)
DUNWIDDIE, MARSHALL, MOORE
Posted By: Linda Brittain
Date: 11/24/2006 at 13:24:20
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, September 19, 1929
Page 5MORTUARY
Mary Luvenia Moore
Mary Luvenia Moore, daughter of Johnson and Mary Moore, was born April 28, 1869, in Washington, Pennsylvania. She moved to Scott township, Madison county, 59 years ago. She resided there until moving to Winterset 20 years ago. She taught ten years in the rural schools of Cass and Madison county.
She retired from teaching to care for the family after the death of her mother 20 years ago, and moved with her father to Winterset. Since the death of her father in 1911, she did practical nursing for 10 years in Winterset and vicinity. She was a member of the Peru church and prominent in lodge work, being a member of the Rebekah lodge for many years, holding the offices of vice grand and noble grand.
Three sisters preceded her in death. She is survived by one sister, Margaret B. Dunwiddie and husband, and two sons, Brooker J. and Herbert W., and daughter, Mary Dunwiddie, of Monroe, Wisconsin; Claude and Johnson, of Lorimor; Mrs. Carr Marshall, of Calbion, Colorado, and a large circle of friends and neighbors.
The funeral was held Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Ramsey-Richards funeral home, conducted by the Rev. F. Clare McCallon. Burial was in the Peru cemetery.
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The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, September 19, 1929
Page 7, Column 5Mary Luvenia Moore
Mary Luvenia Moore, daughter of Johnson and Mary Moore, was born April 23, 1869 at Washington, Pennsylvania and died Saturday, September 14. Fifty-nine years ago she moved with her parents to Scott township where she lived until 1909 when she with her father moved to Winterset.
Miss Moore taught in the rural schools of Cass and Madison counties for ten years and since the death of her father in 1911 she has done practical nursing. She was a member of the Peru church and of the Rebekah lodge of Winterset.
She is survived by one sister, Margrette B. Dunwiddie of Monroe, Wisconsin, one niece and four nephews.
Funeral services were conducted at the Ramsey-Richards funeral home, Monday afternoon, by the Rev. F. C. McCallon. Burial was in the Peru cemetery.
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