Joyce Bernice (Lenocker) Linn (1927)

LINN, LENOCKER, WILLIAMS, HAMMOND, HILL, LARKY, RANKIN, BARR

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Date: 2/4/2011 at 16:16:42

Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, October 27, 1927

Mother of Ten is Dead

Mrs. Earl Linn, who resided on the old Overton farm east of Hickory Grove Church with her husband and ten young children, died suddenly of hemorrhage at four o’clock this (Friday) morning. She had given birth to her eleventh child, an infant son of six and three-quarter pounds weight, and apparently a normal child at ten o’clock the preceding night, and subsequently suffered a considerable loss of blood. Dr. and Mrs. Soper both attended her until two o’clock the next morning at which time she was resting easily and had apparently passed the crisis. When next the physician reached her side an hour and a half later, she was dying from a second severe hemorrhage. There was no reaction to powerful stimulants, and while the sad group of her family gathered around her unconscious form her life ebbed away.

Mrs. Linn is a daughter of J. B. Lenocker and sister of Lloyd Lenocker of Dexter. The family moved from south of Dexter, the first of March.
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Dexter Library Obituary Collection
Dexter, Iowa

Joyce Bernice Lenocker, daughter of J. B. and Pauline Lenocker was born at Cambridge, Nebraska, August 17, 1886. She passed to her reward Friday morning, October 28, 1927. When about 6 years of age her parents moved to a farm just south of Dexter, Iowa. Here she grew to womanhood. After she had completed her school work she was engaged as a teacher in the public schools. On New Year’s Day of 1907 she was united in marriage to Earl G. Linn.

To be in their home was to know that this was a happy union. She was a gracious hostess, and had the faculty of making people feel at home whenever they were privileged to be with her. Early in her life she found Christ and He lived so vitally in her that those coming in contact with her knew that she knew Him. In her home she gave her children His precepts and principles. With her many duties it was not her privilege to be active in Sunday school and church, yet she was active in the ladies societies of the church, always doing all she could.

As a mother she was devoted, wonderfully considerate, truly sympathetic in seeing and meeting her problems from an understanding heart. She ever denied herself for her family.

She was an active member of the Eva Ann Rebecca Lodge, No. 197.

In her going she leaves her husband and the children, Darrell, Lloyd, Lawrence, Wilbur, Irene, Vivian, Earline, Ila, Earl Junior, Thelma, and J. Bernard; her mother; sisters and brothers, Mrs. Nellie Williams, Lloyd Lenocker, Arta Lenocker, Mrs. Joy Hammond of Dexter, Mrs. Ray and John Hill of Des Moines, Mrs. Guy Linn of Brookings, S. Dak.; half brothers, Henry Lenocker of Dexter and Albert Lenocker of Council Bluffs; half sisters, Mrs. J. J. Larky of Fruit Vail, Idaho, and Mrs. Robert Rankin of Cambridge, Neb. Besides these immediate relatives there are many close friends who will greatly miss her. She was preceded in death by her father and a sister, Mrs. Ray Barr.
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Winterset Madisonian
Thursday, November 3, 1927
Page 1

Mrs. Earl Linn, who lived north of Earlham, died early last Friday morning, October 28. She died shortly after giving birth to a baby boy. Mrs. Linn was a daughter of Jake Lenocker and had lived in the Earlham and Dexter communities all her life. She was about 40 years of age. Mrs. Linn is survived by her husband and 11 children. Funeral services were held at Penn Center church, October 30, at 2:30 o’clock.
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Winterset Madisonian
Thursday, November 3, 1927
Page 9

Penn Center

This community had quite a shock Friday morning when the news went over the line, of Mrs. Earl Linn’s death. She died early Friday morning, leaving an infant son born in the night. The funeral services were held at Penn Center Sunday afternoon. She leaves her husband and eleven children. One of the largest crowds that ever attended Penn Center was at the services.

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