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Melba
G. Pennock DAVENPORT
- Melba G. Pennock, 85, of Kahl Home in Davenport, formerly of Newton, died of
heart failure Monday, Nov. 12, at Genesis Medical Center, East Campus, in
Davenport. Funeral
services will be Friday at 10 a.m. at the Wallace Family Funeral Home in Newton.
Burial will be at Newton Union Cemetery. Friends
may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials will be
accepted to the Missions Department of Bethel Assembly of God Church in Rock
Island, IL, and may be left at the funeral home. The
daughter of William Oscar and Mary Eliza Bates Bailey, she was born Feb. 15,
1916, in Centerville. She graduated from East High School in Des Moines in 1937
and from North Central University in Minneapolis, Minn. During her college
years, she sang in a ladies trio and traveled with her sister and brother-in-law
as evangelists to several churches in the Midwest. On June 7, 1941, she married
W. Clifford Pennock in Sioux City. Mrs. Pennock was a homemaker and a longtime
member of the Assemblies of God Church, and was instrumental in the founding of
the First Assembly of God Church in Des Moines. She was a pianist, singer and
writer. She wrote numerous articles and short stories that were published. She
lived in Newton from 1941 to 1978 and then moved to Davenport. Survivors
include a son and daughter-in-law, Ronald L. and Jane Pennock of McCook, Neb.,
two daughters and sons-in-law, Karen (Susie) and Jerry Harper of Bettendorf and
Pauline and Dwight Stevens of Altoona, five grandchildren, and nine
great-grandchildren. She
was preceded in death by her parents, husband, three brothers and two sisters. Newton Daily News, Newton, IA, November 14, 2001. |
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