DUNCOMB, Edith (Powell) 1904-1999

DUNCOMB, DILL, POWELL

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 8/11/2010 at 16:31:49

EDITH DUNCOMB

ST. ANSGAR, IOWA - Edith Duncomb, 94, of St. Ansgar, passed away on Tuesday (July 13, 1999) at the St. Ansgar Good Samaritan Center in St. Ansgar.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the United Methodist Church in St. Ansgar, with the Rev. Ted Stowers officiating. Burial will be in the Riverside Cemetery, Riceville. Visitation will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. today at the Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home in St. Ansgar.

Edith (Powell) Duncomb was born in Hamilton County, Illinois, Sept. 9, 1904, to Joseph and Laura (Dill) Powell. She received her education in rural schools in Illinois and Iowa, graduating from Jolly High School in Jolly, before her marriage to Ralph Duncomb, of Riceville, in 1929.

She was a lifelong member of the Methodist Church. She and Ralph farmed in Mitchell County until moving to St. Ansgar in 1966. Edith became a resident of the Good Samaritan Center in St. Ansgar in 1997.

Edith is survived by her eight children, Grace Nelson and her husband, LaVerne, of St. Ansgar, Laura Hoverson of Austin, Minn., Richard Duncomb and his wife, Patricia, of St. Ansgar, Kenneth Duncomb of Kearney, Missouri, Marietta Steward and her husband, LeRoy, of Stacyville, Robert Duncomb and his wife, Deloris, of Denver, Colorado, Lawrence Duncomb and his wife, Mary, of St. Ansgar, and Janet Erickson of Portland, Ore.; a sister, Opal Peters and her husband, Ronald, of LeRoy, Minn.; a sister-in-law, Loretta Powell, of Mason City; 24 grandchildren; and 37 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Selma Powell; a brother, Ernest Powell; her husband; a daughter-in-law, Marlene (Steward) Duncomb; a son-in-law, Bob Christopherson; a son-in-law, Harvey Hoverson; two grandchildren, Jeff Duncomb and Peter Duncomb; and three great-grandchildren.

Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, (515) 736-4920.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, July 16, 1999]