Berneice Alice Lucore 1905 - 2004

LUCORE, MANNING

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 10/16/2015 at 15:34:58

Sioux City Journal
29 August 2004

SOUTH SIOUX CITY -- Berneice Alice Lucore, 99, of Emerson, Neb., formerly of South Sioux City, died Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2004, at Heritage of Emerson in Emerson.

Services will be 10 a.m. Monday at Christy-Smith Morningside Chapel, with the Rev. Roger Graf of Morningside Presbyterian Church officiating. Burial will be in Graceland Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. today, with a prayer service at 7 p.m., at Trinity Lutheran Church in Hubbard, Neb.

Berneice was born July 10, 1905, in South Sioux City, the daughter of Willis and Edith Manning. Born during a flood, her father had to row a boat to where the old Paddock Restaurant was to get the doctor and take him back to their farm which was where South Ridge Golf Course is now. Berneice learned to drive on Dakota Avenue at age 13. She attended school in South Sioux City and graduated in 1923, the last class to graduate from the old Harney School.

After graduating, she started teaching at the old Pigeon Roost country school located at 39th and G Streets in South Sioux. She taught for two years, attended Wayne State College for two years and then taught at Lewis & Clark School until her marriage.

She married Frank O. Lucore on June 14, 1931, at her parents' home. Mr. Lucore died Feb. 22, 1988, in Sioux City. She went back to teaching in 1948. She continued her education at Wayne, then graduated from Morningside College.

She was a member of Morningside Presbyterian Church, where she was active in many programs, and taught Sunday school for many years. She was a 50-year member of O.E.S. Laura Chapter No. 301 in South Sioux City. She worked at St. Luke's Medical Center Auxiliary for many years and also taught adults reading and writing through the Sioux City Adult Education program. She loved cats, especially one named "Fat Cat". Berneice had a long and full life.

Survivors include her daughters, Donna Dzuris and her husband, Keith, of Hubbard, Neb. and Lois Gordon of Ankeny, Iowa; six grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; a great-grandson, Nathan Backman; and two brothers, Howard and Harry Manning.