Obituary
Millard County Chronicle
7/16/1942
LUCY WHICKER BLACK DIES OF HEART ATTACK
Funeral services will be held in the Deseret Ward Chapel Friday at 3 p.m. for Lucy Whicker Black, 75, who died Tuesday morning at her home of heart ailment. Mrs. Black was apparently enjoying good health and died very suddenly. She was born in Sidney, Australia in 1867. Her parents, Isaac Whicker and Eliza Loveridge joined the church and the family moved to Utah when she was eight years of age. They lived in Kaysville and then moved to Deseret where Mrs. Black has resided for the past 65 years. She married William Reuben Black in the Manti Temple in 1890. Mr. Black died seven years ago. Mrs. Black had been an active church worker until the past few years. She has served in the Deseret Primary as Primary President, MIA counselor, Relief Society Counselor and as Relief Society teacher for many years. She is survived by Mrs. Laura Peterson of Culver City, Cal.; Mrs. Ella Whitehead of Grace, Idaho; Mrs. Nora Nisonger, Long Beach, Cal.; step children that she raised and her own children, Ernest Black of Delta, Lavon and Dee Black of Deseret and a daughter, Mrs. Bertella Wilde of Eureka. 29 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Also a brother, Robert Whicker, of Delta and five half brothers and sisters, Henry and John Whicker, Mrs. Zina Hatten, Mrs. Frances Hatten and Mrs. Hattie Partridge all of Fillmore. Funeral services will be under the direction of Bishop Ralph Crafts of Deseret and interment in the Deseret cemetery.
Obituary
Millard County Chronicle
7/16/1942
LUCY WHICKER BLACK DIES OF HEART ATTACK
Funeral services will be held in the Deseret Ward Chapel Friday at 3 p.m. for Lucy Whicker Black, 75, who died Tuesday morning at her home of heart ailment. Mrs. Black was apparently enjoying good health and died very suddenly. She was born in Sidney, Australia in 1867. Her parents, Isaac Whicker and Eliza Loveridge joined the church and the family moved to Utah when she was eight years of age. They lived in Kaysville and then moved to Deseret where Mrs. Black has resided for the past 65 years. She married William Reuben Black in the Manti Temple in 1890. Mr. Black died seven years ago. Mrs. Black had been an active church worker until the past few years. She has served in the Deseret Primary as Primary President, MIA counselor, Relief Society Counselor and as Relief Society teacher for many years. She is survived by Mrs. Laura Peterson of Culver City, Cal.; Mrs. Ella Whitehead of Grace, Idaho; Mrs. Nora Nisonger, Long Beach, Cal.; step children that she raised and her own children, Ernest Black of Delta, Lavon and Dee Black of Deseret and a daughter, Mrs. Bertella Wilde of Eureka. 29 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Also a brother, Robert Whicker, of Delta and five half brothers and sisters, Henry and John Whicker, Mrs. Zina Hatten, Mrs. Frances Hatten and Mrs. Hattie Partridge all of Fillmore. Funeral services will be under the direction of Bishop Ralph Crafts of Deseret and interment in the Deseret cemetery.
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