Lloyd William LAUGHERY

LAUGHERY, STUCKEY, WATKINS, LICHTENBERG, TOILLION, YEAGER, KOENEN, NAKASHIMA, TRAUE, HALL, EWBANK

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/29/2006 at 16:53:14

Lloyd William Laughery, 90, died Sunday (Sept. 22, 2002) at his home in Eagle Grove. His funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Eagle Grove. Burial will be in the Northlawn Memorial Cemetery in Iowa Falls. Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Foust Funeral Home in Eagle Grove.

Lloyd was born April 4, 1912, in Sharp, Kan., the son of William and Anna (Stuckey) Laughery. He was baptized into the Christian faith in the Methodist Church. He attended grade school in Sharp along with his four sisters and graduated in 1930 from Burlington High School in Kansas. He attended Baker University and received a bachelor's degree in business in 1934. After graduating from college, Lloyd worked in Burlington, Kan., for Draltwish Eggs and Poultry. He moved to Des Moines and worked there from 1936 to 1938, after which he moved to Iowa Falls, becoming manager of the Iowa Falls Poultry and Egg Plant. Lloyd served as a lieutenant in the United States Army until the end of World War II. After the war, he returned to Iowa Falls and his job at the plant. In 1944, he was married to Maxine Watkins in Halls Summit, Kan. They had three children, Diana, Leon and Jean. Lloyd purchased a partnership in the Duer Accounting Firm and moved with his family to Eagle Grove in 1962. His wife, Maxine, passed away in 1965 following a battle with cancer. In 1968, Lloyd was united in marriage to Delores Lichtenberg at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Eagle Grove. He joined the staff of Umthun Trucking Co. in 1970 as comptroller. He worked at Umthun Trucking Co. until semi-retiring in 1978. He continued to work for them in an advisory capacity for several years. He was an active member of the United Methodist Church and after 1972, was active at the Evangelical Lutheran Church, where he served as treasurer of their endowment committee and was on the board of Concerned Inc. for 17 years, serving as president and treasurer. He served the community and was a member of the Lions Club.

Left to cherish Lloyd's memory are his wife, Delores, Eagle Grove; his children, Diana and John Toillion of Mililani, Hawaii, Leon and Patsy Laughery of Thornton, Colo., Jean and Doug Yeager of Forest City; six grandchildren, Brad and Denise Yeager of Rochester Hills, Mich., Jen and Ryan Koenen of Hampton, Kirsten and Guy Nakashima of Mililani, Hawaii, Reed, Lindsay and Christopher Laughery of Thornton, Colo.; three great-grandchildren, Austin and Elsa Yeager and Kolten Koenen; two sisters, Lorene Laughery of Topeka, Kan., and Latha Traue of Idaho Falls, Idaho. He was preceded in death by his parents; two sisters, Edith Hall and Gladys Ewbank, and his first wife, Maxine. Foust Funeral Home.

Copyright Mason City Globe Gazette
23 September 2002