Clara Mae Scott Lacey 1906-2002

LACEY, OTTO, SCOTT

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 5/28/2008 at 16:42:11

Sioux City Journal
30 August 2002

MAPLETON, Iowa -- Clara M. Lacey, 96, of Ankeny, Iowa, since 1996, formerly of Mapleton, died Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2002, at Sunny View Care Center in Ankeny.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Danbury United Methodist Church in Danbury, Iowa, with the Rev. Kathy Olson officiating. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery, Battle Creek, Iowa. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today, with a prayer service at 7 p.m., at Armstrong Funeral Home in Mapleton.

Clara Mae Scott Lacey was born Aug. 10, 1906, in rural Danbury, Ida County, the daughter of James and Lena (Otto) Scott. She grew up in Ida County, attending rural school until the eighth grade. She then lived in Ida Grove, Iowa, with her Grandmother Scott, while attended Ida Grove High School, graduating in 1925. She played basketball and was a member of the Ida Grove 1925 state championship team. She taught rural school for three years.

She married Duane Lacey on Dec. 1, 1928, in Ida Grove. They farmed near Danbury until 1979, when they moved into Mapleton. Duane died Sept. 2, 1991. She moved to Sunny View Care Center in Ankeny in March 1996.

She was an active member of Danbury United Methodist Church, where she was a member of the Women's Society of Christian Service and served as president for several years.

Those who remain to cherish her memory include her daughter and her husband, Olive and Francis Stehlik of Ankeny; a daughter-in-law, Sandra Lacey of Danbury; two brothers-in-law and their wives, Garth and Doris Lacey of Danbury and Galen and Odelia of Chatfield, Minn.; four granddaughters, Michelle Powers of Fairbanks, Alaska, Sharon Siddon of Dallas, Texas, Lori Malone of Grimes, Iowa, and Tammy Neubauer of Ida Grove; two grandsons, Shane Lacey of Denver, Colo., and Kirk Lacey of Danbury; 10 great-grandchildren; nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

In addition to her husband, she was also preceded in death by a son, Dale; twin daughters at birth; a sister, Lois Scott; two brothers, Ralph and J. Edwin Scott; and her parents.