Lillie Bell King 1893-1912

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Date: 9/6/2014 at 08:01:58

DEATH OF MRS. G. C. KING
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After illness of a Week She Died in Red Oak Monday
Morning—Funeral at M. E Church Tuesday Morning.
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Mrs. Lillie Bell King, wife of Geo. C. King, died at the home of Mr. King’s father, C. C. King, on South West First-st., about 5:30 o’clock Monday morning, August 26, from rheumatism following illness of about a week.
Funeral services by Rev. F. N. Willis, D. D., of the M. E. church, were held in that church at 10:30 o’clock, Tuesday morning, Aug. 27. The singing was by Misses Carol Willis and Celia Thomas and Will Maloney and C. N. Heath. The pallbearers were J. E. Marsh, T. C. Harp, J. R. Watson, Geo McCleary, Herbert Cramer and Everett Davis. Interment was in Red Oak Evergreen cemetery.

Those who came from a distance to attend the funeral services were Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Ireland, Mrs. Elizabeth Pierson and Mrs. Dollie DeWitt, from Griswold; James W. Pierson, from Falls City, Neb.

Mrs. King’s maiden name was Miss Lillie B. Pierson. She was born near Griswold, Iowa, Aug. 4, 1893, and was married Oct. 17, 1910, at Mason City to Mr. King. She had lived here since Dec. 25, 1910. The surviving relatives are her husband, Geo. C. King, of Red Oak; her father, James W. Pierson, of Falls City, Neb.; her mother, Mrs. Wilbur West, of Belding, Mich.; two sisters, Mrs. Dollie DeWitt, of Griswold, and Miss Maude Pierson, of Belding, Mich.; one brother, Floyd Pierson, of Belding, Mich.

Mrs. King was a member of the M. E. church and was a young woman who had many friends. Sincere sympathy of these friends is extended to the sorrowing relatives.

THE SUN, Red Oak, Iowa, Friday, August 30, 1912.