Lucy (Frost) Patten (1868-1939)

FROST, PATTEN, OLSAN, DEFORE, DE FORE, WILSON, TAYLOR, YEARSLY, WALGENBACH

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 12/27/2021 at 22:05:34

From Nevada Evening Journal March 3, 1939 (page 3)

Funeral Services For Mrs. Patten Thursday Afternoon

The Bishop Funeral home here was well filled Thursday afternoon with relatives an friends of the late Mrs. Lucy Patten, 70, who died Sunday at Iowa sanitarium, a few days following a surgical operation, for the final rites. The service was in charge of Rev. Jos. M. Kennedy of Central Presbyterian church, with Mrs. Armstrong at the piano. Burial was in the Nevada cemetery.

Lucy Frost, daughter of George West Frost and Matilda Davey Frost, was one of a family of eight children, she having four sisters and three brothers. She was born on Oct. 27 1868 in La Salle County, Ill., near the city of LaSalle, and here she grew to womanhood.

She was married at LaSalle on March 31, 1891 to Irwin Patten and the Pattens then established their home on a farm near that place. After farming there for several years the family moved to Iowa, coming to Iowa about 1906 and locating first in Greene County near Jefferson. Four years later they moved to Boone County and eight years later moved to Story County and since that time the farm home has been near Ames.

During recent years Mrs. Patten has also kept her home in Nevada, coming here for health reasons and to be located near four of her daughters.

Mr. and Mrs. Patten had a family of six children, one son and five daughters, all of whom survive their mother. They are: Roland Patten, Ames; Hazel, now Mrs. Milos Olsan, Nevada; Faye, now Mrs. Loyd DeFore, Ames; Pearl, now Mrs. Jay Wilson, Nevada; Ruth, now Mrs. Ray Taylor, Nevada; and Miss Helen Patten of Nevada.

Mrs. Patten is also survived by her aged husband, Mr. Irwin Patten, and by two of her brothers and two sisters. The sisters are: Mrs. James Yearsly, Granville, Ill., and Mrs. James [should be Jacob] Walgenbach, LaSalle, Ill., the brothers are George Frost, Chicago, Ill., and Charles Frost, Elgin, Ill. Six grandchildren and a number of other relatives together with many friends will also mourn her passing.

Mrs. Patten was one who took special price in the activities of her children and in the care of her home. She loved to sew and do other kinds of handiwork, and her family have many remembrances of this kind of work that she has done.

Mrs. Paten united with the Methodist church a number of years ago, and found contentment in living a consistent, useful life. Kindness and consideration for others were her outstanding qualities.

A serious fall, some fifteen year ago, caused trouble with a broken knee. This condition was never overcome and was aggravated last September by another fall. Failing to show improvement, she had been well cared for by her daughters, having been at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Milos Olsan, since last November.

Following an amputation of the injured member last week she failed to regain her strength and death came to her as a release from pain on Sunday morning, Feb. 26, 1939. She had reached the year of life mentioned in scripture as being of "three score years and ten" having become seventy years of age last October.