Harry Frederick "Fred" Lough (1921-1976)

LOUGH, VERT, PRENOSIL

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 4/2/2014 at 21:42:11

From Nevada Journal April 1976

Harry Frederick Lough

Funeral services for Harry Frederick Lough of Cambridge were held Monday April 12 at 2 p.m. from the Ryan Funeral Chapel at Nevada with the Rev. Elmer R. Carrithers of Des Moines officiating.

Mrs. Irene Dobson was at the organ. Dwight Nerness sang "The Lord's Prayer" and "How Great Thou Art." Casket bearers were Duane Cook, Bill Gooden, Bob Gooden, Dan Mason, Don Miller, Jim Mayo. Burial was in the Nevada Cemetery.

Harry Frederick Lough, known to all as Fred Lough, died April 9, 1976 having attained the age of 54 years. Fred was born on a farm three miles from Nevada, the son of Harry and Inez Lough on October 2, 1921.

Fred attended the Nevada Public Schools and answered the call of our country by enlisting in the United States Army in July 1942, serving in Iran for the duration of the war. He was united in marriage to Mary Margaret (Minnie) Vert on March 16, 1941 at the Shiloh United Brethren Chuch, Mound City, Missouri, a church which his paternal grandfather has pastored in before. At the time of his passing, he held his membership in the Nazareth Lutheran Church of Cambridge, Iowa.

He was preceded in death by both his mother and father. He leaves to mourn his passing, his wife and daughter Kelly at home; brother, Kenneth of Dixon, Missouri and sister Barbara Prenosil of Des Moines, and on aunt of Nevada, cousins, nephews, nieces and a host of friends.