Obit: Wilcox, Lula (1897- 1976)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Wilcox, Church, Bedell

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 11/04/1976

Wilcox, Lula (19 February 1897 – 25 October 1976)

Lula Bedell Wilcox, 79, died October 25 in Olean Hospital, Olean, N.Y.

Mrs. Wilcox was born in Colfax, Il., February 19, 1897, the youngest daughter of Wilkes and Fannie Church Bedell. She moved to Tioga, with her parents and family in 1906. She worked in the R.D. Ingham Co. store and was also the postmistress there for a number of years.

On March 8, 1920, she married James Wilcox in Mankato, Mn., and returned to Chili, where they lived until 1926. That year they moved to New York state and had lived there since his retirement in Cattaraugus and Little Valley, where she was a member of the Methodist Church.

Mrs. Wilcox is survived by her husband, James, and by five children, Mrs. Lorena Krynisky of Salamanca, N.Y., Mrs. Marjorie Patterson, and Mrs. Ward Wilcox both of Randolph N.Y., John Wilcox of Perrysburg, N.Y.; and Linda Joubert of Collins, N.Y.; and 13 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

Interment was in Randolph Cemetery, Randolph, N.Y. on October 28.
 

 

 


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