William Wyatt Pace (1939)
LENOCKER, PACE
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 1/23/2012 at 09:09:38
Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, December 20, 1939
Page 8Peru Happenings
Wyatt Pace, a former Peru resident died at his home near Hopeville Friday. The funeral was held in Hopeville Sunday afternoon and burial was made at Patterson.
________________________The Osceola Sentinel
Osceola, Iowa
Thursday, December 21, 1939
Page 3, Column 2Funeral services for William W. Pace of Hopeville were held Sunday afternoon conducted by Rev. Claude F. Risinger of Van Wert at the church in Hopeville. Interment was made in Patterson cemetery. The services were in charge of the Lamoree Funeral home of this city.
William Wyatt Pace, son of George Robert and Lucy Ann Pace, was born July 27, 1873 in Madison county, near Patterson, Iowa, and passed away on December 15, 1939 at his home near Hopeville, Iowa.
His boyhood and youth were spent near Patterson where he made many life long friends.
On October 30, 1910, he was united in wedlock with Lucy D. Pace of Booneville, Indiana. To this union were born six children: William Winston of Woodburn, Iowa, Robert Thomas, at home, Florence Ruth of Waterloo, Iowa, George Willis, who preceded his father in death at the tender age of eleven years, in 1928, Mary Etta and Maurice, both at home.
In 1926 he, with his family, moved to Clarke county, near Osceola where he has resided until his death.
He leaves to mourn his passing, his widow, Mrs. Lucy D. Pace and the five children previously mentioned, one sister, Mrs. Mattie Lenocker, of Dexter, Iowa, and two brothers, Charlie of Missouri, and Dow, of Santa Monica, California, besides a host of friends and neighbors.
He was a kind and loving father and a friend and neighbor to all who knew home.
Pallbearers: Clinton Mullen, Russel Boles, Noel Boles, Dalton McCutchan, Casper Lamb, Lowell Jackson.
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