Orville Claude Willcox

WILLCOX, ESTEL, BECK, ENGLAND

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 1/7/2006 at 21:35:27

Orville Claude Willcox

Winterset Madisonian
December 31, 1985

Services for Orville Claude Willcox, 80, Orange
City, who died Dec. 28, 1985, at the Marian Health
Center at Sioux City, will be held at 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 31 at the Collins Funeral Home with
the Rev. Marlin Vander Wilt of Orange City officiating.
Burial will be at the Winterset Cemetery.

Born in Harrison township of Adair County, May 9,
1905, he was the son of James and Verdie M. Estel
Willcox. He had lived in Orange City for the past
six years but had farmed in the Madison County area most of his life.

Mr. Willcox was a past president of the Madison
county Farm Bureau, a member of the Madison County
board of supervisors and the Lions Club. On Sept.
4, 1926 he was married to Lora Beck. She died July
11, 1978. He was married to Theora England Nov. 24
1979.

Survivors include his wife; stepsons, Fred England
of Houston, Texas and Gene England of Carmel, Ca.;
and five step-grandchildren.

He was also preceded in death by his parents, a
brother and a sister.