Mattie (Pace) Lenocker (1952)
LENOCKER, PACE, STEVENS, MARSH, NULL, WILSON, KENT
Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 8/31/2007 at 15:45:23
Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, June 25, 1952
Page 1MATTIE LENOCKER DIED HERE SUNDAY
Funeral Services Held Here Tuesday With Burial at Dexter
Mrs. R. A. Lenocker, member of a prominent family in Madison county and the Dexter community for many years, died Sunday, June 23 at Winterset, where she had made her home in recent years. She had received a fractured hip in a fall on May 5.
Mrs. Lenocker was 82 years of age. Her entire life was spent in Madison and Dallas counties. She was the former Mattie Bell Pace, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Pace and was born at Patterson on Feb. 27, 1870.
As a young woman she taught country school in Madison county for four years and on Aug. 25, 1891 she was married to Reuben A. Lenocker of Dexter. She was active in the Dexter Presbyterian church for many years and in the Eastern Star there, and was a charter member of the Rebekah lodge at Dexter. The Lenockers lived for a number of years on a farm in Penn township and later lived in Winterset for a few years before moving to Dexter in the late 20's.
Mrs. Lenocker's husband who served in the state legislature from Madison county from 1915 to 1919 died in 1932. She was also preceded in death by an infant son.
Surviving are seven children, Mrs. Frances Stevens of Lincoln, Nebr., Mrs. Hester Marsh of Albany, Ore., George Lenocker of Dexter, Mrs. Sue Null of Winterset, Mrs. Mildred Wilson of Chicago, Bruce Lenocker of Bakersfield, Calif., and Mrs. Martha Kent of Los Angeles, Calif.; and two brothers, Charley Pace of Fresno, Calif. and Dow Pace of Los Angeles. She also leaves 13 grandchildren and 9 great grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at 10 a.m. from the Anderson home for funerals and at 3 p.m. from the Dexter Presbyterian church. The Rev. Clement D. Loehr, pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Winterset and a son in law, the Rev. P. R. Stevens of Lincoln, Nebr., were in charge. Burial was made in the Dexter cemetery.
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