Nancy Ann (Hockett) King (1941)

BULL, HANKS, HOCKETT, KING, STEVENS, TAYLOR

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 3/5/2012 at 06:22:36

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, December 24, 1941
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Week’s Letter from Earlham

John Stevens of Altoona spent several days in Earlham the last of the week and attended the funeral services of his cousin, Mrs. George King on Friday afternoon.
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Week’s Letter from Earlham

Funeral services were held on Friday afternoon for Mrs. George King, who died following a few weeks illness at her home Wednesday morning.
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Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
December 25, 1941

Mrs. Geo. King Died Dec. 17

Mrs. George King, pioneer resident of Earlham, died at her home, Wednesday, December 17. Funeral services were held at the Friends church Friday. Burial was made at the Earlham cemetery. Rev. Walter Wilson conducted the services.

Mrs. King was born in Earlham in 1868 and spent the greater part of her life here. Her obituary follows:

OBITUARY

Nancy Ann Hockett, daughter of David and Mary Jane Hanks Hockett, was born in Madison county in what is now the town of Earlham, February 11, 1868, the youngest and the last surviving member of six children—four sons and two daughters. She departed this life at her home in Earlham, December 17, 1941, at the age of seventy-three years, ten months and six days.

She was marred to George W. King, of Dallas county, near Adel, May 12, 1896. Surviving, besides her husband, are six children: Fred James, Philipsburg, Montana; C. Howard, Rapid City, South Dakota; Mary Esther (Mrs. George Taylor), Pasadena, California; Stephen Darrell, Hall, Montana; Kenneth H., Earlham; Ada Marilla (Mrs. Clark Bull), Guthrie Center, Iowa. The oldest son, Irl, who served in World War I, and in post-war Government service in Siberia, Russia, died in 1929. Twelve grandchildren also survive.

Except a few years in Missouri and South Dakota, “Nannie”, as she was familiarly known, spent the greatest part of a well-spent life in and near Earlham which she always felt was “home.” She grew up in the pioneer community of which her Quaker parents were early settlers and was among the first pupils of the old stone school house, a landmark still in the town. During young womanhood, she taught music, driving with horse and buggy, through the rural sections of Dallas county.

A birthright member of the Quaker (or Friends) church, she was active in the church and Bible School, Missionary Society, W.C.T.U., any worthy project of the community. She believed firmly that whatever talent one possessed, it should be used “Unto the Lord.” One way in which she was a blessing to many, in which she served her Master was, by means of her “voice in song” with her own accompaniment. But her main interest was in her home with her husband and children who can truly say: “Blessing she was; God mad her so, And deeds of week-day holiness Fell from her, noiseless, as the snow That aught was easier than to bless.”

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