Lucy Welch Orris (1972)

ORRIS, WELCH, FISHER, DOWNS, DAGGETT

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 11/28/2006 at 15:26:18

Winterset Madisonian
November 22, 1972

At St. Charles Lucy Orris Dies

Mrs. Lucy Orris, a native of Winterset and a resident of Madison County for 81 years, died Monday, November 20 at the E-Z Rest Nursing Home in St. Charles. She was 88 years of age.

Mrs. Orris was the former Lucy Welch, daughter of James H. and Lydia Fisher Welch. She was born in Wintrset on February 4, 1884. On February 28, 1917 she was married to Edwin S. Orris. Their life was spent in this community, except for seven years in Los Angeles, California where Mr. Orris' death occurred August 25, 1956.

As a young woman Mrs. Orris was employed on a Winterset newspaper as a linotype operator.

She was a member of the Church of Christ.

She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Paul Downs of St. Charles; six grandchildren; two great grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Edith Daggett of Winter Haven, Florida.

Funeral services were to be held this Wednesday at 1:309 p.m. from the Collins Funeral Home in Winterset, conducted by the Rev. Tom Foglesong of Des Moines. Burial was to be made in the Winterset Cemetery.