Obit: Corey, Lena L. (1903-1971)

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Surnames: COREY NOAH NELSON

 

----Source: Marshfield News Herald 5/ /1971


AREA RESIDENT DIES AT AGE 67

 

(Note: another obituary has her name listed as Leah; don't know which is righ)

 
GREENWOOD--Mrs. Lena L. Corey, 67, Greenwood, Clark County died at 7:30 a.m. Thursday May 6,1971 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield, where she had been a patient since April 23, following a heart attack.


Services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Zion United Church of Christ, with the Rev. David Logue, pastor, officiating. Burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery.


Visitations may be made at the Hill Funeral Home here beginning Sunday afternoon.


The former Lena Noah was born Dec. 5, 1903 in Greenwood. She attended the Loyal Grade Schools and graduated in 1922 from Loyal High School. She was a graduate from La Crosse Teacher's College, after which she taught school in the Greenwood and Willard areas.
She was married July 25, 1927 in Wabasha, Minn., to Howard L. Corey, who preceded her in death in November of 1956. She had been a resident of the Greenwood area for 43 years.


She was a member of Zion United Church of Christ, Royal Neighbors for 50 years, a charter member of the American Legion Auxiliary, Order of the Eastern Star, and was presently serving as the treasurer of the Zion Women's Guild.


Survivors include two sons, Gary Corey, Neillsville and Jack Corey, Sioux Falls, S.D. five grandchildren a sister, Mrs. Martha Nelson, Gardena, Calif., and four brothers, Arthur Noah, Neillsville William Noah, Oshkosh Alvin Noah, Minneapolis and Rudy Noah (the rest is cut off)

 

 

 


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