Obituary Record

Luella Celesta (Knight) Cronk
Died on 2/29/1956
Buried in Herman Cemetery

Published in the Pilot-Tribune March 8, 1956. The Herman Cemetery records have her name and death date as: Ella C. Daley born 5/14/1862; death 2/29/1956. Plot 18; wife of William H. Daley.

ELLA CRONK, 92, SUCCUMBS

BLAIR WOMAN DIES AT FREMONT HOME FOR AGED; RITES HELD FRIDAY

Mrs. Ella Daly Cronk, 93, long a resident of Herman and Blair, died last Wednesday at the Lutheran Home for the Aged in Fremont, where she had been a guest in recent years.

The body was brought to the Bendorf Funeral Home, where services were conducted Friday at 1:30 p.m. by the Rev. Melvon Ireland of First Methodist Church. Burial was in Herman Cemetery.

Mrs. Cronk, as Luella Celesta Knight, daughter of Andrew and Malinda Neely Knight, was born May 14, 1862, at Booneville, Is. She and her husband lived at Herman many years, and after his death she came to Blair.

Surviving her are nephews and nieces.

Printed in the Washington County Pilot-Tribune on 3/8/1956


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