OBITUARY: Grace Mellem Buck, Worth County, Iowa

Transcribed by Gordon Felland, July 2002
From the Northwood Anchor, July 8, 1971, page 4



                    GRACE MELLEM BUCK, 1895-1971

Mrs. Storey (Grace Mellem) Buck, who died in Spokane, Wash., June 20, 1971,
after a long illness, was born August 9, 1895 near Northwood, the youngest
child of Ole and Nellie Vigen Mellem.  Her father was the first white child
born in Worth county.

She grew up in this area, graduated from Northwood high school in 1914 and
State Teachers college, Cedar Falls, in 1920.  She taught in the schools
of Worth county and at Manly and Mason City.  In 1926 she went to Spokane,
Wash., where she taught in the public schools for many years, as a regular
teacher, as a substitute during her marriage and later again as a regular
teacher.

She was married to Storey Buck, who was the mining editor of the Spokane
Daily Chronicle until his death in 1953.

Mrs. Buck was a member of the Central Lutheran church, the Retired Teachers
Association, the Lutheran Service Volunteer Group, the Association of
University Women, was a life honorary member of the Northwest Mining
Association and an honorary member of the Washington County Parents and
Teachers.

She is survived by two nieces, Mrs. Ruth Ehmann, Yugoslavia, Mrs. Richard
Carrier, Maryland, two nephews, Horace Mellem, Michigan; George Hauge,
Washington, D.C.  She was the sister of the late Gaylord and Ralph Mellem
and Mrs. Nettie Hauge.





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