PENNEY, Herbert L. 1884-1954

PENNEY, PIERCE, DRUM, ELLIOTT, MAKEPEACE

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 9/2/2010 at 02:13:51

LITTLE CEDAR, IOWA — Funeral rites are pending for Herbert L. Penney, 69, who died Sunday morning in the Cedar Valley hospital at Charles City; had peritonitis following a ruptured appendix, occurring June 16. The body is at the Champion funeral home.

Herbert was born on September 8, 1884, to George and Mary Jane (Pierce) Penney, on a farm east of
Stacyville. He married Gladys Makepeace of Little Cedar in 1910. He had lived on a farm near Little Cedar all of his life, since a small child, until retirement in 1952 to Little Cedar.

Survivors include his wife, two sons, Howard, Little Cedar, and Stuart, Stacyville; a daughter, Mrs. Harry Drum, Ruthven; seven grandchildren, and a brother, Sidney, Little Cedar.

Preceding him in deawth were two children in infancy; two brothers, Spencer and Clinton H.; and a sister, Mrs. Mary Elliott.

[Waterloo Courier, Monday, June 28, 1954]
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