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William Latta Leggett (1951)

LEGGETT, COX, TRAVIS, REEVES, QUICK, FULTON, PORTER

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 2/17/2007 at 17:10:45

Winterset Madisonian - October 10, 1951
Winterset, Iowa

FORMER RESIDENT OF TRURO DIES

Funeral services were held last Wednesday at the Kale Funeral home in Truro for William Latta Leggett, age 74.

Mr. Leggett died on Oct. 1 at the Elm Crest nursing home in Des Moines. He had lived the past 28 years in Des Moines.

The son of John W. and Margaret Leggett, he was born July 29, 1877 in Polk county, Iowa. He spent his boyhood near Polk City later moving to Truro, where he met and married Becca Rowena Cox. She died on Dec. 11, 1943.

Mr. Leggett is survived by five children, Orval W. Leggett of Truro, Mrs. Emery Travis of Dallas Center, Mrs. Harry Reeves of El Cerrito, Calif., Mrs. Harold Quick of Ankeny and Lonnie E. Leggett of Des Moines.

Other survivors include 16 grandchildren, three great grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. Nellie Fulton, and Mrs. Sam Porter, both of Truro.

Officiating at the services last Wednesday was the Rev. Vern Willey of Cromwell. Burial was in the Pine Hill cemetery at Des Moines.


 

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