Grover Day Lacey (1893-1946)

LACEY, LAWTON, AKERS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 4/20/2021 at 09:57:33

From Nevada Evening Journal May 29, 1946 (page 3)

Funeral Services For Grover D. Lacey Sunday Afternoon

Funeral services for the late Grover D. Lacey, 324 J avenue, Nevada barber since May 16 1924, were held Sunday afternoon at the Morfoot Funeral Home in charge of Rev. E. P. Windman of the Memorial Lutheran church.

The service was largely attended by relatives and friends desiring to pay a tribute of love and respect to a man whose standing in the community was high and whose friends were all who knew him.

The many beautiful flowers were cared for by Hannah Thomas and Florence Barrow. Mrs. A. E. Hale was at the organ playing a number of appropriate selections.

The message by Rev. Windman was comforting to those bereaved and a tribute to a man whose love of his home and his flowers was distinctive in his live.

The casket bearers were H. M. Vinsel, Glen Davis, Elmore Reitz, Gilbert Henry, J. A. McDaniel and Roy Barrow.

Committal was in the Nevada cemetery.

Grover D. Lacey was born March 11, 1893, at Corydon, Wayne county, Iowa, the youngest son of John and Hattie Lacey. There were five sons in the family, Edward, Jesse, Joseph and Nelson who died in infancy, and Grover.

At the age of 18 months his father died following an accident. When about school age he was reared by his maternal grandmother. He worked on the farm until he entered a barber school, completing his course in 1916 at the Des Moines Barber College.

He was married March 4, 1918 to Miss Daisy Lawton at Denison, Ia., and to this union one son was born Oct. 26, 1919, Lawrence Lawton Lacey who resides at Little Rock, Ark.

After coming to Nevada on May 16, 1924, he was married Oct. 16, 1927, to Jessie Akers at the Little Brown Church at Nashua, Ia.

Mr. Lacey bought a one-half interest in the Ideal Barber shop with C. J. Bierschwal, June 10, 1929, and was in continuous business until he went to Rochester, Dec. 7, 1945, when ill health caused him to retire.

Mr. Lacey passed away May 23, at 11:30 p. m. at his home, 324 J avenue. He had been tenderly cared for by his wife until a few hours before his passing.

He leaves three brothers, Edward and Joseph of Chariton and Jesse of Corydon, besides his wife, Jessie Akers Lacey and his son, Lawrence Lawton Lacey and other relatives.

Relatives of Mr. Lacey here from out of town: Ed Lacey, and Mrs. Irvin Lacey, Chariton; Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Lacey and Norman and Nancy Kay, Mr. and Mrs. Hollie Rynor and Norma Jean, Frank Lacey, Corydon; Mr. and Mrs. Noah Lacey, Altoona; Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Lacey, McCallsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hooper, Des Moines. One brother, Joseph of Chariton, was unable to attend.

Relatives of Mrs. Lacey from out of town: Ronald Hickman, Lamoni; Mrs. Lizzie Emig an Wayne, Kellerson; Mr. and Mrs. Osler Briggs and Beverly an Mr. and Mrs. Clark D. Akers, Marshalltown, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Briggs, Waverly; Mr. and Mrs. Duane Briggs, LeGrande; Mrs. Cy Quick and Cy, Jr., Des Moines.