Lois Olive (Bishop) Dickey (1897-1925)

BISHOP, DICKEY, AXLESON, FRITSCH, EVANS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 6/10/2014 at 19:18:00

From unknown newspaper March 1925

DICKEY FUNERAL THIS AFTERNOON

BODY OF YOUNG WIFE LAID TO REST IN NEVADA CEMETERY

The funeral services for Mrs. Lois Bishop-Dickey were held from the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Bishop on Eighth north of Lincoln, this afternoon at 3 o'clock in charge of her pastor, Rev. Jackson Giddens, of the First Methodist church, after which the body was laid to rest in the Nevada cemetery. The services were opened with appropriate songs and the body lay with a casket covered with beautiful floral offerings, the tribute of loved ones and devoted friends.

There were present many relatives from a distance among them being her brother, Donald Bishop, wife and babe of Parkersburg, her grandmother Mrs. Bishop Sr., of Springville and an uncle, Ray Bishop of the same place; an uncle John and family of Toledo; an aunt, Mrs. Axelson, with her husband and daughter of Gowrie; another aunt Mrs. Fritsch, husband and daugter of Faribault, Minn.; her grandfather, J. C. Evans of Marion, brother-in-laws, Glen Dickey of Des Moines and Lyle B. Dickety and wife of Ames, besides numerous more distant relatives and friends from Des Moines, Ames, Perry, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids and other points.

Lois Olive Bishop, daughter of Frank O. and Genta E. Bishop was born a Springville, Iowa, August 18, 1897. When she was six years of age she moved with her family to Gowrie and there and at Marengo she spent her childhood days, graduating from the high school at Marengo in 1916.

Later the family moved to Nevada and she attended Drake University and the State Teachers college at Cedar Falls, after which she taught in different rural schools as well as in the schools at Anamosa and Griswold. She followed a successful career as teacher until she was untied in marriage to Charles Harold Dickey of Nevada, on September 14, 1922.

She was first taken ill in April of 1924 and every hope had bee felt for her recovery, until she suffered a relapse in September. After that she did not appear to respond to treatment and on December 3, 1924, she, accompanied by her husband and mother, went to Colorado Springs where she was given treatment. For some time it was realized that she could not recover and it was on March 14 that she grew rapidly worse and the Death Messenger came at seven o'clock that evening. Her mother had been with her continuously and her husband had been with her during the last week. An aunt, Mrs. Axleson of Gowrie was also with her when the summons came.

She had joined the Methodist church as a girl and was a member of the First Methodist church of Nevada at the time of her death. She had a class in the Sunday school at the time that illness compelled her to give up activities and had entered into a life of devotion and fine work in the church.

Mrs. Dickey was a young woman of fine character and charming personality and was popular among the people with whom she had come in contact and her death will be deeply mourned by a wide circle of friends, as well as the husband, parents, brothers and sisters.

She leaves to mourn her untimely death her husband, her parents, sisters Lola of Cedar Rapids and Dorothy of Nevada and brothers, Don of Parkersburg and Harl of Nevada. One sister, Lena, died at the age of four and one half years.