Adaline Louisa Peek-Joy

PEEK, HATCH, JOY, WELTON, ALGYER, COWAN, CORRIE, HOPKINS

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Date: 2/8/2016 at 03:29:48

ADELINE PEEK-JOY DEAD [sic]
Passes away At Home In Indianapolis August 21st.
Funeral Services Held Last Monday

On Monday afternoon, at the home of her childhood, a large company of sorrowing friends met to pay the last tribute of esteem and love to Adaline Peek-Joy whose death had occured at Indianapolis on August 21st. Of the early Dale township families, none has been more closely identified with the community than that of Mr. and Mrs. C.G. Peek and one of the sweetest memories of their home is that of their five daughters who grew up within the home.

The fourth daughter, Adaline Louisa, was born September 5, 1893. She attended the Rowher school near her home until she entered the Paullina High school from which she was graduated in 1911. Later she was a student at the Iowa State College of Ames and at Drake University, specializing in Domestic Economy. She taught a few terms in the Dale township school and one year in Hornick.

On March 21, 1921, she was married to Mr. Arlo Joy [sic] of Logan, a friend of college days, going to their first home on a farm near Logan. She died in Indianapolis, where they had lived for the past two years.

Beside her husband and her little daughter, Barbara Alice, she is survived by her father, her only brother, Welton A Peek, who occupies the old home, and the four sisters, Mrs. H M Algyer, Tracy, Minn., Mrs. Francis Cowan, Paullina, Ia; Mrs. Homer Corrie, Ida Grove; and Mrs. A.L. Hopkins of Indianapolis. The death of the mother four years ago was the only previous break in the family circle.

Mrs. Joy's affectionate nature and her gentle manner, and her sweet voice made her a delight in the home and won the regard of those who knew her best. she was a sister in the Alpha Gamma Tau college sorority, a member of the order of the Eastern Star, and of the Woman's Relief Corps in Logan, and a Daughter of the American Revolution, being a great grand-daughter of the Polly Welton, from which the Paullina Chapter took its name.

The sudden ending of yer young life with all the promise that its best was yet to come brings a peculiar sadness to many friends, and words cannot express their sympathy for the bereaved ones in their grief.

The funeral services were conducted by Rev. F.F. Robinson of the M.E. church, who spoke from the text, "In my Father's House are Many Mansions." The same comforting message was sung by a ladies quartet consisting of Mrs. Thatcher, Mrs. Schaefer, Mis Raw and Mrs. Ohme with Miss Ruth Bachman accompanying. The pall bearers were the old time schoolmates Chester Idso, Spencer Towe, Raymond Fife, Ward Smith, Ray Hodgdon and William Watts.

She was laid to rest beside her mother in the family lot at Prairie View Cemetery.

Paullina Times, Paullina, Iowa, August 28, 1924, P1