Lucy H. Dunn, 89, longtime Jerome resident, died Monday July 31, 1995, at the Magic Valley Regional Medical Center in Twin Falls.
Lucy Dunn was born March 8, 1906, in Montpelier, the daughter of Katie Ryan and Daniel J. Hurley. She was married to Ralph H. Dunn of Jerome on June 19, 1947, at St. Joseph's Church in Pocatello. They have made their home in Jerome for the past 48 years.
Lucy attended schools in Montpelier and graduated from high school at St. Mary's of the Wasatch Academy in Salt Lake City. She attended Idaho State University before graduating from the University of Idaho in 1929 with a degree in home economics. She used her degree to teach thousands of young women the art of homemaking. She taught in Glenns Ferry, Wagon Mound, N.M., Pocatello, and from 1947 to 1970, at Jerome High School.
She was a life member of the Phi Upsilon Omicron Home Economics Society. An accomplished violinist, she performed with both the Pocatello Symphony and the University of Idaho Orchestra. Lucy was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary, St. Benedict's Hospital Auxiliary, Jerome Civic Club, The Catholic Women's League and St. Jerome's Catholic Church.
She is survived by her husband Ralph of Jerome, her brother Ed Hurley of Walla Walla, Wash.; her sister, Cecilia Weed of Mission San Jose, Calif.; and many nieces and nephews.
A vigil service will be held at 7:30 p.m. today at the Hove-Robertson Funeral Chapel in Jerome. The funeral Mass will be conducted at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Jerome's Catholic Church with the Rev. Father James F. Shinnick officiating. Burial will follow at the Jerome Cemetery. Friends may call from 5 p.m. until the time of the vigil service today at the funeral chapel.
(Times News - August 2, 1995.)
A. W. Jones, 80, died in Cherokee Wednesday evening, Dec 12 after a prolonged illness.
Mr. Jones, was a well known Northwest Iowa banker, landowner and philanthropist.
Born on a farm near LeMars, he spent his early years at Peterson and later moved to Sac City where he was president of Sac City bank before coming to Cherokee.
Among other financial interest he bought assets of the old First National Bank of Cherokee in 1931, later opening it as Central Trust and Savings Bank.
In addition to his wife, the former Ada Marian Dunn of Storm Lake, he is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Joe G. Nelson of Cherokee and one son, Robert V. Jones of Chicago; nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. One sister, Mrs. W. E. Landsberg of Sac City, also survives.
Funeral services for Jones are to be Friday, December 14 at 2 p. m. from St. Paul's Methodist Church with Duven Funeral Home in charge. The Rev. J. E. Feller will officiate. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
(source: Found in Page 8 of Cherokee Daily Times published in Cherokee Iowa Thursday, Dec 13th , 1956.)