Verda Carmine Duke

DUKE, SELL, HERVEY, BEGGS, MELLEN, GRIMES, COLE, BROWN, KIRKLAND, KOONTS

Posted By: Lucille Gano (email)
Date: 6/11/2003 at 21:59:21

Verda Carmine Duke, 89, of Gallatin, Missouri, died Saturday, May 24, 2003 at the Heartland Regional Medical Center West in St. Joseph, Missouri. Services were Wednesday, May 27, at the McWilliams Family Funeral Homes in Gallatin. Graveside services were at Mt. Moriah Cemetery May 28, Douds, Iowa. Memorials to the American Heart Association.
Verda was born 3 Nov 1913 to John Willard and Grace Sell Hervey near Bentonsport, Iowa. She attended school in Bentonsport and Keosauqua. She married Herbert V. Duke on 8 Jan. 1950 in Memphis, Missouri. They lived and farmed in Corona, South Dakota until Herbert's death in 1965. In 1970 she moved to Gallatin, Missouri to be near her children. Verda was a homemaker and worked for many years at the glove factory in Fairfield. She was a member of the Gallatin Seventh- Day Adventist Church.
She was preceeded in death by two sisters, Gladys Beggs and Florence Mellen, and two brothers, Willard and Robert Hervey. Survivors include three sons, Charles Grimes of St. Joseph, John Grimes, Pueblo, Colorado and Raymond Grimes, Brandon, South Dakota; two daughters, Donna Cole, Gallatin, and Joyce Brown, Gower, Missouri;a sister, Wanda Kirkland, Seattle, Washington; 8 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren and a sister, Valera Koonts of Oskkaloosa.