The following obituary was transcribed from the March 3, 1972 Friday Edition of the Decatur, Macon County, Illinois "Decatur Herald & Review" Newspaper.

The obituary was printed on page 24 of the newspaper.

LAPPIN

Mrs. Jake (Laura Ann) Lappin, 90, of 555 S. Broadway died at 5:55 a.m. today in Decatur Memorial Hospital.

Services will be 1:30 p.m. Saturday in J.J. Morans Funeral Chapel where friends may call after 4 p.m. Friday.

Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery.

Mrs. Lappin was born in Pawnee, a daughter of John and Alice Scott Wolfe.

She moved to Decatur from Salem 50 years ago.

Mrs. Lappin was a member of Tabernacle Baptist Church.

She married Jake Lappin on Nov. 11, 1939, in Decatur. He died Dec. 14, 1957.

Surviving are sons, Delbert Poole of Sandwich, [Find A Grave Memorial# 95631111]; Readis "Pete" Poole of Lincoln; Norman Poole of Decatur; daughter, Mrs. Ida Fink of Decatur; 10 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.

Two brothers and four sisters preceded her in death.

The marriage to Jacob "Jake" Lappin was the third and final marriage for Laura Ann Wolfe.

If you have a username and password on the free-to-use website called familysearch.org, then here's a link to a 1900 Mt. Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois census record for a widowed John W. Sandige, his step-son, Amos Poole, daughter-in-law, Laura Poole, step-son, Edgar Poole, and servant, Iva Cornstubble, lines 27-31.

Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-63N3-NWF?view=index&personArk=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AMSWF-8TG&action=view

Laura Wolfe was first married to Amos M. Poole on November 5, 1899 in Mt. Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois, then to Charles Anson Cowden on April 6, 1918 in Salem, Marion County, Illinois, and finally to Jacob "Jake" Lappin on November 11, 1939 in Decatur, Macon County, Illinois.

Laura Ann Wolfe, Poole, Cowden, Lappin is buried in Graceland Cemetery, Decatur, Macon County, Illinois in Section J, Lot 315, Space 2, which is next to her daughter Ida Willoughby Poole Fink, and Ida's husband, John Fink.

Graceland Cemetery is located at 2091 North Oakland Avenue, Decatur, Illinois 62526.

For information about locating a grave in either Graceland Cemetery or Fairlawn Cemetery you can call the Graceland/Fairlawn Funeral Home at (217) 429-5439.

The Graceland/Fairlawn Funeral Home is located at the north eastern edge of Graceland Cemetery.

Children:

Daughter:

Ida Willoughy Poole Fink

Son:

Delbert John Poole

Son:

Norman Mitchell Poole

Son:

Readis G. "Pete" Poole