Lawrence P. Willcoxon

WILLCOXON, MADDUX, STANFORD, HASTINGS, HENLEY

Posted By: Lynn McCleary (email)
Date: 6/12/2021 at 20:55:34

Wapello Republican, May 2, 1935, page 1

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Maddux, Flossie and Arthur, Mr. Wm. Maddux and daughter, Joanne and Virgil Stanford were in Muscatine last Friday afternoon and attended the funeral services of Mr. Lawrence P. Willcoxon, age 30, at the Hoffman funeral home at 2:30.

Mr. Willcoxon, construction foreman at the Herbert Gettert firm died at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Hershey Hospital after a two weeks illness with double pneumonia. He was born September 1, 1904, in Holt Summit, Mo., and had lived in Muscatine two years. He was married May 23, 1926 to Miss Charlene Hastings of Lorraine, Ill., in Hannibal, Mo.

His widow, a daughter, Roma, three brothers and his mother, Mrs. Eva Henley, Jefferson City, Mo., survive.

Burial was in the Greenwood cemetery. Mr. Willcoxon was well known around Wapello as he lived here three years ago and was foreman for the Ryan Construction Co. at that time.