SOUDERS, Lucy (1882-1966)

SOUDERS

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart, Volunteer (email)
Date: 10/21/2008 at 17:22:17

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
August 17, 1966

MRS. LUCY SOUDERS of New Virginia Dies

Mrs. Lucy Nettleton Souders of New Virginia died Thursday, August 11, 1966, at a Des Moines hospital. She was 83 years of age.

Mrs. Souders was the former Lucy Bumbarger, daughter of George and Roxanna Rundall Bumbarger. She was born at St. Charles December 19, 1882. Her life was spent in Madison and Warren counties. She was a member of the Church of Christ. She was married to Frank Souders November 18, 1903 in St. Charles.

Mrs. Souders is survived by seven children, Mrs. Roxanna Crawford of New Virginia, Mrs. Fern Jacobs of Lorimor, Mrs. Edith Reynolds of New Virginia, Mrs. Viola Smalley of Indianola, William Souders of Las Vegas, Nevada, Mrs. Georganna Rupp of Villisca, and Mrs. Wilma Jones of El Monte, California; 24 grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Emma Hayworth of Indianola; and a brother, Wesley Bumbarger of St. Charles.

Funeral services were conducted from the St. Charles Church of Christ Sunday by the Rev. Steward Fitzgerald. Burial was made in the St. Charles cemetery.