Obituary of Lucy Harper Whaley ********************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons.Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent. Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 From: http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000008 ********************************** Lucy Harper Whaley Bath County News-Outlook Thursday, September 29, 1938 Prominent Bethel Woman Succumbs Mrs. Lucy Harper Whaley, 72 years old, passed away at her home near Bethel Saturday morning, September 24, after a brief illness. She had been in declining health for a number of years and had expected to move to Newport, Ky., this fall to make her home with her daughter, Miss Fannie Lee Whaley, who teaches in the Newport city schools. She was a native of Indiana, a daughter of Mathias and Georgia Ann Harper, born January 19, 1856. The greater part of her life had been spent at or near Bethel, where her husband, the late Robert Whaley, who died some thirty years ago, was a prominent and widely known farmer. Besides her daughter, Miss Fannie Lee Whaley, she is survived by one brother, J. T. Harper, of Sunrise, Ky., and one sister, Mrs. Ida Vice, Owingsville, and two half-sisters, Misses Berta and Grace Harper, of Cincinnati. Funeral services were held at the Bethel Christian church Sunday afternoon, September 25, conducted by the Rev. H. Myron Kauffman. Interment was in Longview Cemetery at Bethel.