Mrs. Florence Clark Orrick

ORRICK

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 8/31/2014 at 12:53:35

MRS. ORRICK SUCCUMBS AT WATERLOO, IA

Was Daughter of Capt. and Mrs. W.L. Clark, Buffalo Pioneers.

Mrs. Florence Clark Orrick, former resident of Buffalo and of Davenport, died Monday at the home of her son, H.T. Orrick in Waterloo, Ia., after an illness of many months' duration.

The body arrived in Davenport this morning and was taken to the M.V. Boies Co chapel and later to the home of her sister, Mrs. E.M. Harrison at Buffalo where services were to be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon with the Rev. Rowland Philbrook officiating. Burial was to be made in Rose hill cemetery.

Mrs. Orrick was born at Buffalo, Ia., 79 years ago, the daughter of Captain and Mrs. W.L. Clark, early settlers in that community. After her marriage to W.W. Orrick the couple moved to Dubuque where Mr. Orrick entered the wholesale grocery business. She came to Davenport after the death of her husband and later moved to Waterloo where she had resided for the last three years.

Surviving are two sons, H.T. and W.W. Orrick; and one sister, Mrs. E.M. Harrison.

Source: Davenport Democrat and Leader; Davenport, Ia.,28 August 1928.