Lily Anne Flack 1913 - 1997

FLACK, TIGHE, COWAN

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Date: 1/14/2019 at 21:17:52

Sioux City Journal
5 June 1997

Lily Anne Flack, 84, of South Sioux City died Monday, June 2, 1997 at a Sioux City hospital.

Funeral Mass Service will be at 11 a.m. today at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, with the Rev. Thomas E. Geelan officiated. Burial will be in St. Michael’s Cemetery at South Sioux City. Larkin Northside Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

Mrs. Flack was born March 3, 1913, in Harrold, South Dakota, the daughter of Lawrence W. and Mary (Tighe) Cowan. She attended high school in Herman, Nebraska and graduated from the Gleenwood, Iowa High School in 1930. She attended the Van Sans Business College in Omaha, Nebraska. She lived in Omaha for two years following her graduation, then she moved to California. She moved to the bay area of California in the mid-1930s.

She married Rauley Delbert Flack on August 14, 1939, in Beverly Hills, California. He died April 8, 1970 in San Leandro, California. She was employed as a purchasing agent for the U.S. Naval Hospital in Oakland, California for many years, retiring in 1983. She moved to Sioux City in 1994 and resided at the Northpark Terrace, until moving to South Sioux City this year.

She was a member of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, the National Association of Retired Federal Employees, the United States Civil Service Commission, and the American Association of Retired Person. She was a member of several social clubs in San Lorenzo, California, including the Sociables, the Catholic Widows, and the Widowers Club. She also belonged to several travel clubs in the bay area. She enjoyed traveling.

Survivors include a step-son and his wife, Delbert E. and Sue of Fernley, Nevada, three brothers, John F. and his wife, Christina Cowan of Castro Valley, California, Arthur P. Cowan of Highmore, South Dakota and Laurence J. “Bud” Cowan of Denver, Colorado; two step grandsons, Steven A. and Rolly D. Flack; her caregiver and cousin, Honore Huse of Dakota City, and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by a step granddaughter, a brother, Daniel Cowan and a sister, Sister Mary Honore Cowan, O.P.

Pallbearers will be her family members.

Memorials may be given in her name to the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church or to Hospice of Siouxland.