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- FORMER RESIDENT DIES IN LA CROSSE
- Services for Mrs. Lucy Chapel Held Monday in Roderick
Funeral Home Here
- Mrs. Lucy A. CHAPEL, 91, former Evansville resident
died Friday morning in her
- home at La Crosse following a three months' illness.
- Funeral services were conducted in her home at 3:30 p.m.
Sunday with the Rev. R. H.
- Linley, pastor of the Caledonia Street Methodist church,
La Crosse, officiating, and at 1 p.m. Monday in the Roderick
funeral home here with the Rev. T. C. Nagler, Methodist pastor,
in charge.
- The song service in Evansville was presented by Mrs. William
BOODE who sang "In
- the Cross of Christ I Glory" and "Abide With Me"
accompanied at the piano by Miss Lois WEARY.
- Burial was made in Maple Hill cemetery with David PATCHEN,
James KILE, John
- CALLAHAN, Ed M. JONES, Ben MAPLES, and
William BROWN as pall bearers.
- Mrs. CHAPEL, formerly Miss Lucy REED, was born
July 18, 1848 on a farm three
- and one-half miles southeast of Evansville in Magnolia township
where she grew to young womanhood.
- She was married there April 24, 1868 to Russell A. CHAPEL
who died here in 1897.
- Mrs. CHAPEL resided in Evansville and vicinity until
1908 when in company with one of her daughters she moved to La
Crosse where she resided until death.
- Mrs. CHAPEL, who was nearly 92 years old, had been
a member of the Methodist
- church since childhood and in La Crosse became affiliated
with the First Methodist church.
- A faithful Christian, Mrs. CHAPEL, always found time
to be of service to others and
- wherever she found need she rendered acts of kindness.
- Besides her husband, Mrs. CHAPEL was preceded in death
by two daughters, Mrs.
- Flora TOWNSEND, La Crosse, and Mrs. Clara KING,
Benton Harbor, Mich. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Cora
BECKER and Mrs. Laura HUFF, La Crosse, and Mrs.
Adeline IVEY, Kendall, Wis.; ten grandchildren, 12 great
grandchildren, and many other relatives and friends.
- "It seemeth such a little way to me,
Across to that strange country, the beyond
And yet not strange for it has grown to be
The home of those of whom I am so fond
They make it seem most familiar and most dear
As journeying friends bring distant regions near." [p.
4, col. 4-6]
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- Courtesy of Ruth Ann Montgomery
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