Lacy Vern Looper (1966)

LOOPER, DAVIS, NEAL, LARSON, SCHMIDT, VAN NESS, ESTUS

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Date: 11/17/2012 at 16:21:02

Winterset Madisonian – July 6, 1966
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Lacy Looper, who has been in ill health for some time died Wednesday morning at the Veterans Hospital in Des Moines. He has been a resident here for several years. Funeral services were held from the Kale Funeral home Friday afternoon in charge of Rev. James Nicholson with interment in the Young Cemetery.
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Winterset Madisonian – July 13, 1966
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Lacey Looper Buried in Young Cemetery

Lacey Looper of Truro died June 29 at Veterans hospital in Des Moines, where he had been a patient for several months. He was 75 years of age.

Mr. Looper was a native of Tennessee, where he was born in Greenville, April 3, 1891. He was a veteran of World War I. He was wounded in action in France while serving with the 351st Infantry regiment.

He is survived by his wife; a son by a previous marriage, Adram Looper of Shenandoah; three step-daughters, Mrs. Robert Davis of Council Bluffs, Mrs. James Neal of Libertyville, Illinois, and Mrs. Marie Larson of White Bear Lake, Minnesota; a great grandson, Roger Schmidt, whom he helped raise; two sisters, Bonnie Van Ness of Seymour, Missouri, and Mrs. Homer Estus of Rockport, Missouri; two brothers, Hobart Looper of Seymour and Leonard Looper of Taylor, Michigan; in addition to two grandsons, and six step-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held July 1st from the Kale Funeral home in Truro, conducted by the Rev. James Nicholson. Burial was made in the Young cemetery near Truro.

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