FINDLEY, Patricia: Died 1995

FINDLEY, DARLAND, BEATTY

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Date: 5/25/2023 at 23:34:23

Fairfield Ledger
Thursday, September 1, 1995

Patricia Findley

MILTON - The service for Patricia Findley, 62, of Milton, who died at 8:04 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1995, at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Keosauqua United Methodist Church with the Rev. S. Gale Hawhee officiating. Burial will be in Sunnyside Cemetery at Milton. Visitation is open at Pedrick Funeral Home in Keosauqua with the family present from 7 to 8 tonight. Memorials to Keosauqua United Methodist Church may be left at the funeral home.

Mrs. Findley was born July 7, 1933, in Oskaloosa, the daughter of Frank and Irene Darland Beatty. She graduated from Oskaloosa High School and was a bookkeeper at Grinnell College. On Nov. 14, 1964, she married Lester Findley Jr. in Grinnell.

She was a homemaker and assisted her husband in the operation of their farm near Milton and also made decorated cakes. She most recently was employed as a bookkeeper in Fairfield.

She was a member of Keosauqua United Methodist Church, where she sang in the choir; was a member of Twin City Chapter, Order of Eastern Star in Douds; a member of Chapter AD, PEO, in Milton; a past matron of Carr Chapter, Order of Eastern Star in Milton; had been a member of the Iowa Poll-ette Association and served as leader of the Milton Busy Bees 4-H Club for 10 years.

Surviving are her husband; two sons, Lester III of Harlingen, Texas, Kevin of Marshalltown; and a grandson. Her parents preceded her in death.

(Transcribed for genealogical purpose only. I am of no relation.)