Verna Lucille (Lineweaver) Fox (1916-1943)

FOX, LINEWEAVER

Posted By: Eileen Reed (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:43

April 20, 1916 --- February 28, 1943

Lucille Lineweaver Fox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry P. Lineweaver, was born April 20, 1916, and died Sunday morning, Feb. 28 at Long Beach, Calif. Death was caused from injuries received when struck by an automobile.

Lucille was graduated in 1934 from Eagle Grove high school. She attended Eagle Grove Junior college two years and was prominent in the dramatic circles of the school and college, and for four years was a member of the Eagle Grove high school marching band. She was an earnest worker in the Congregational Sunday school and taught for several years, the class of smaller children.

She attended Iowa University for one year, then went to the Nebraska State Teachers college at Wayne, Neb., from where she received her degree in kindergarten. For one year she taught in the first-grade at Mapleton, Iowa and on July 7, 1941, she was-united-in-marriage to Quillen Fox at Randolph, Neb. They resided for one-year in Lawton, Ia., where Mr. Fox was athletic coach. He was called to the service on March 1, 1942, and Mrs. Fox then taught for the remainder of the year in the kindergarten room of the Exira schools.

Mr. Fox was in the Navy, stationed in San Diego, so at the close of the school year, Mrs. Fox went there where she secured a position at the Douglas Aircraft Co. In September she was appointed supervisor in a government nursery school In Long Beach, Calif., for children whose fathers were in the Navy. It was in this position she was employed when she met her sudden death.

Mrs. Fox was returning from a nearby town to Long Beach, and as she stepped from a friend's car and started across the street to her apartment she was struck by a car and was fatally injured. Twenty-five minutes later she was dead.

Mr. Fox was on duty with the Navy at Bethesda, Md., and when he received the word of his wife's death, was preparing to move to Evanston, Ill., where he was to attend an officers' training school at Northwestern University. He flew to Long Beach and made arrangements to have the body brought back to Eagle Grove for burial.

Mrs. Fox's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lineweaver, moved to Mountain Home, Ark., last fall, and came here upon receiving word of their daughter's death.

Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Congregational church, with the pastor, Rev. Loyal M. Wilkinson in charge. Pall bearers were six of Lucille’s classmates, Robert Roper, Roger Wilcox, Gaylord Hill, Howard Groves, James Spangler and Jack Langmade. Burial was in Rose Hill cemetery.

Those from out of the city who attended the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fox of Randolph, Neb.; Mrs. S. C. Fox of Wayne, Neb.; Dr. and Mrs. N. Dittman of Winside, Neb.; Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Swanger of Cedar Rapids; Mr. and Mrs. Orval Swanger and son Lowell of Battle Creek, Ia.; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Siefert of Ames; Mrs. Will Henn of Clarion; Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Harvey and Miss Eloise Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Subblett and daughter Helen, all of Boone; Holgene Subblett, Cedar Rapids; Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Eberle, Supt. and Mrs. Elwood Norton, Miss Marguerite Rees of Lawton, Ia.; Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Collins and Mrs. Jack McClelland, Clarion: Misses Ruth Fielder and Helen Nelson of Des Moines.

Eagle Grove Eagle --- Eagle Grove, Iowa
March 11, 1943