Lovina Sophia "Love" (Lockridge) Drybread (1868-1931)

LOCKRIDGE, DRYBREAD, PETERSON, WORSLEY, WILL, ARMSTRONG

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 6/10/2013 at 22:40:55

From Nevada Journal 1931

DRYBREAD FUNERAL THURSDAY AT 2:30

NEVADA WOMAN WHO DIED VERY SUDDENLY SATURDAY NOON

The funeral of Mrs. J. E. Drybread, 62, who died suddenly at her home 335 I avenue, just before noon on Satuday, will be held at the residence Thursday afternoon at 2:30, after which interment will be in the Nevada cemetery. The service will be in charge of W. O. Benthin, pastor of Central Presbyterian church.

Definite arrangement for the funeral made were possible by receiving a message from the son Lt. William L. Drybread of the U. S. Navy stating that he would be able to arrive in Nevada Wednesday night.

Lt. Drybread was on the U. S. S. Barney about 500 miles off the coat of Charleston, S. C., when the radio message reached him announcing the death of his mother.

The elder daughter, Mrs. Helen Peterson, with her children, will arrive Tuesday morning form their home at Sandpoint, Idaho.

Mrs. Drybread before the marriage was Love, daughter of William and Lydia Ann Lockridge, born in Nevada December 5, 1868.

She was married to John E. Drybread, Oct. 16, 1895 and their home had always been in Nevada with the exception of about 4 years spent in Maxwell and one at Denison. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Drybread and with the husband survive.

The children are Helen D., wife of John K. Peterson, Jr., of Sandpoint, Idaho; William L. a lieutenant in the United States navy, and Mary Jane Drybread of Nevada. There are also three grandchildren, Lydia Ann, John III and William Peterson.

Three sisters are also left to mourn her death, they being Mrs. Elfa E. Worsley of Nevada, Mrs. Etta K. Will of Salina, Kansas and Mrs. Anna Fay Armstrong of Nevada.

Mrs. Drybread, a graduate of Nevada high school with the class of 1886, was a charter member of the Chapter AM, P. E. O., and also a member of the Clover club and active in the local chapter of the daughters of the Americann Revolution.

While devoted to her family and home, she had found time to take an interest in social and club affairs of the city and was woman of fine character and well admired by a wide circle of friends.

She was a daughter of one of the pioneer families of Nevada and will be long remembered by the people here.