Lavina Dragoo, 1892-1972

DRAGOO, RICHMOND

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Date: 10/13/2018 at 11:49:06

Lavina Dragoo, 1892-1972

Sioux City Journal

Miss Lavina Dragoo, 79, Pierson, retired school teacher, died Tuesday night in a Sioux City hospital.
Funeral services will be 1:30 p.m. Friday at the United Methodist Church at Pierson. The Rev. Forest M. Lay will officiate. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery under direction of the Dickison-Michaelson Funeral Home of Kingsley, Iowa.

Miss Dragoo was born Sept. 24, 1892 at Westboro, Mo. She attended Morningside College and was graduated from Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She taught school in Cedar Rapids for 30 years, retiring in 1959 when she moved to Pierson.

Miss Dragoo was a member of the United Methodist Church and Pierson Chapter 509, Order of Eastern Star.

Survivors include three sisters, Mrs. George (Nellie) McCutheom of Goldfield, Iowa, Miss Hattie Dragoo of Pioerson and Mrs. Albert (Mary) Hass of Cherokee, Iowa, and a brother, Earl of Green River, Wyo.

The Moville Record, abt March 23, 1972

Funeral services for Miss Lavina Dragoo of Pierson, were held Friday, March 17, 1972 at 1:30 p.m. from the United Methodist Church of Pierson. The Rev. Forest M. Lay officiated and burial was made in Greenwood Cemetery at Pierson under the direction of the Dickison-Michaelson Funeral Home of Kingsley.

Mrs. Donald Jones, as soloist sand [sang] ‘I Heard the voice of Jesus Say’. Mrs. Dale Nafe was organist.

Casketbearers were Messrs. Donald Johns, Adair Countryman, Russell DeLambert, George Hardie, Wayne Blackburn and Frank Harvey.

Miss Lavina Dragoo of Pierson, Iowa, died at St. Joseph Hospital in Sioux City March 14, 1972 at the age of 79 years, 5 months and 20 days.

Miss Dragoo was born the daughter of Daniel and Mary (Richmond) Dragoo at Westboro, Missouri, on September 24, 1892.

Following high school, she attended college at Morningside in Sioux City and later received a degree from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. For several years she taught in the country school in Woodbury County. Then she taught school at Cedar Rapids for 36 years until she retired in 1959 and moved back to Pierson.

She was a member of the United Methodist Church of Pierson and the Order of the Eastern Star in Pierson, Chapter 509.

Survivors include 3 sisters, Mrs. George (Nellie) McCutcheon of Goldfield, Iowa, Hattie Dragoo of Pierson and Mrs. Alfred (Mary) Hass of Cherokee and 1 brother, Earl of Green River, Wyoming.

She was preceded in death by her parents and one brother.