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Submitted: 1/11/14 • Approved: 1/12/14 • Last Updated: 3/11/18 • R23993-G23991-S3
John
January 2, 1922 - November 17, 2013
"Lucile"
August 19, 1923 - October 19, 2003
Iola Register, October 20, 2003
Lucile Heard, 80, of Iola died Sunday, Oct. 19, at Rooks County Care Nursing Home in Plainville, where she had lived for the past three weeks.
She was born Aug. 19, 1923, on a farm eight miles south of Bronson, the daughter of Odie E. and Lula A. Turner Pool. She was graduated from Bronson High School.
On Dec. 24, 1941, she married John Heard. They made their home in Iola.
In her early years she worked for Fairmont Creamery and then for King's Cleaners. She worked for Cyrus Truck Lines for 10 years as a rate clerk before being employed by Haldex Brake Corporation, retiring in 1989.
She was a caregiver for her son, Dale, for many years. She was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church.
She served as a past president of the Lincoln Elementary School Parents and Teachers Association, coached a Cyrus Truck Line girls' softball team for many years, was a lifetime member of Beta Sigma Phi and taught vacation Bible school. She helped with Ginny Masterson's volunteer patterning group and was a Cub Scout and Brownie Scout leader.
Her husband survives, as does a son, David and his wife, Mary Kay, Iola; two daughters, Sharon Porter and her husband, Chalmers, Palco, and Connie Albrecht and her husband, Joe, Cookeville, Tenn.; a sister, Illah Thompson, Moran; six grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.
A son, Dale, and infant brother and a sister, Hazel Pool, died earlier.
Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapels. Burial was in Highland Cemetry.
The family received friends Tuesday evening at the funeral home.
Memorials were suggested to Wesley United Methodist Church.
Contributed on 1/11/14
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