Pansy Violet Leonard Spaulding 1900 - 1978

LEONARD, SPAULDING

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 5/1/2022 at 11:01:20

Sioux City Journal
26 December 1978

Pierson, Iowa-- Mrs. Ralph Spaulding, 78, of Pierson died Saturday at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the United Methodist Church. The Rev. Jeanne Groom will officiate, burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery under direction of the Dickison-Michaelson Funeral Home of Kingsley.

Mrs. Spaulding, the former Pansy Violet Leonard, was born Oct. 25, 1900, near Bronson. She graduated from Pierson High School in 1918 and attended business school in Sioux City. She married Ralph Spaulding on July 10, 1920, in Sioux City. He died in 1978.

Mrs. Spaulding lived in the Grand Meadow and Pierson area, moving to Pierson in 1945. She was employed as a cook at the Pierson School until she was 65 and worked as a cook at the Colonial Manor Nursing Home at Kingsley for several years.

She was a member of the Rebekkah Lodge and the United Methodist Church in Pierson.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Roy (Frances) Egbert of Pleasant Hill, Calif.; a son, Roy of Pierson; two sisters, Mrs. Emma Pelton of Seattle, Wash., and Mrs. Harriett Bruene of Cherokee, and six grandchildren.