OBITUARY: Lydia W. (White) Penney, 1843--, Mitchell Co., Iowa

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                         DEATH OF MRS. ALFRED PENNEY 

Former Stacyville Lady Died at the Home of Daughter In North Yakima Jan. 4th. 

The friends of the Alfred Penney family will be grieved to learn of the death 
of Mrs. Penney, which occurred on Sunday, January 4th, at North Yakima, Wash. 
Mrs. Penney was a sister of Ed White of this city and was well known to many 
NEWS readers. The following is from the Yakima Independent. 

The funeral of Mrs. Lydia W. Penney was held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon 
from the residence of her daughter, Mrs. J. Lenox Ward, 310 North First 
street, Rev. Frank Healey, pastor of the church at Naches, officiating. The 
interment was at Tahoma cemetery. 

The death occured Sunday morning at the Ward residence following an illness
of long standing. 

The deceased was the wife of Alfred Penney of Naches City, and leaves a
family of seven children, all of whom were in attendance at the funeral.
The five daughters are Mrs. Grace Durant of Summner, Ia.; Mrs Viette Allen,
Mrs. Jessie Schoonover and Miss Florence Penney of Naches City and Mrs.
Mabel Ward of North Yakima. 

The sons are Alfred E. Penney of Naches City and Dr. Ralph E. Penney of
North Yakima. M. H. White,a brother residing in Spokane was at the funeral. 

The deceased was born in Pennsylvania August 21, 1843. Her father was David
White and her mother Lucy Hollister Warner White. The family moved to 
Stacyville, Ia., in 1860, and she was married to Alfred Penney in 1866. She 
was the mother of ten children, seven of whom survive her. 

The family moved to their present home in Naches valley in 1901, and the
site of Naches City is on the home farm. 



   Submitted by: Marilyn O'Connor  1/20/2006