Georgette E. Haddock 1914-1998

HADDOCK WISEMAN PRESCOTT

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 11/29/2012 at 10:15:02

Georgette E. Haddock, 84, of Sioux City died Thursday, July 30, 1998, at her home.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Grace United Methodist Church with the Rev. Sheryl Ashley officiating. Burial will be in Willow Township Cemetery in Holly Springs, Iowa.

Visitation will be 4 to 8:30 p.m.. Monday with the family present from 6 to 8 p.m. at Christy, Smith, and Hockenberry Funeral Home.

Mrs. Haddock was born May 31, 1914, in Sergeant Bluff, the daughter of Everett and Erma (Wiseman) Prescott. As a young child she moved with her family to Sioux City where she went to school and graduated from East High School in 1933. She then earned her teaching diploma from Wayne State Teachers College. She later attended classes at Morningside College and the University of South Dakota at Vermillion, S.D., graduating in 1956, with a bachelor of science in education degree.

She married Bruce Haddock on Aug. 31, 1934, in Sioux City. He died June 23, 1983, in Sioux City. She taught in several Woodbury County, Iowa schools including, Holly Springs, Hornick, Smithland, Westwood at Sloan, and Woodbury Central at Moville, for a total of twenty-seven years, retiring in 1970. She was also president of J.B. Haddock Inc., a family farm corporation, beginning in 1983.

She had been active in several churches including St. James Methodist Church, Omaha Presbyterian Church of the Cross, Hornick Methodist Church, and Westminister Presbyterian Church in Sioux City. She had served as a Sunday school and Bible school teacher, pianist, youth group leader, choir director, and bell ringer, and had also been a member of church circles and ladies aide societies.

She was a member of Mayflower Society of Maine, Thomas Rogers Pilgrim Society of Maine, American and Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs, Hornick Study Club, Sorosis Club of Sioux City, National and Iowa Education Society, Sioux City Piano Teachers, Music Educator's National Council,and Fidelis Alpha Chapter of Alpha Delta Kappa. She had also served as a 4-H leader and as Woodbury County Health Chairman.

Survivors include two sons, Jon Haddock of Hornick, and Ronald Haddock and his wife, Mary, of Omaha, Neb.; a brother and his wife, George E. and Marguerite Prescott of Sioux City; two sisters, L. Norma Cox of Holly Springs, and Nancy and her husband, George Bowman, of Iowa City, Iowa; nine grandchildren, Jay Bruce Evans, Gwendolyn Evans, Jennifer Haddock, Rebecca Finn, Andrea Haddock, Alexa Haddock, Gayle Haddock, Robin Haddock, and Sarah Bookman; three great-grandchildren; nine nieces; and eight nephews.