Verda Carmine Duke, 89, Gallatin, died Saturday, May 24, 2003, at a St. Joseph hospital.
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Funeral services for Verda Duke were held Tuesday at the McWilliams Family Funeral Home in Gallatin. Graveside service and burial was held at 1 p.m. today (Wednesday) at Douds, Iowa. Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association.
Verda Carmine Duke, 89, Gallatin, died Saturday, May 24, 2003, at a St. Joseph hospital.
Mrs. Duke was born Nov. 3, 1913, near Bentonsport, Iowa. She attended school in the Bentonsport and Keosauqua area.
She married Herbert V. Duke on Jan. 8, 1950, in Memphis, Mo. They lived and farmed in Corona, S.D., until Mr. Duke’s death in 1965. In 1970, she moved to Gallatin to be close to her children.
Mrs. Duke was a homemaker and worked for many years at the glove factory in Fairfield, Iowa.
She was a member of the Gallatin Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Mrs. Ducke was preceded in death by two sisters, Gladys Beggs and Florence Mellen; and two brothers, Willard and Robert Hervey.
Survivors include three sons, Charles Grimes of St. Joseph, John Grimes of Pueblo, Colo., and Raymond Grimes of Brandon, S.D.; two daughters, Donna Cole of Gallatin and Joyce Brown of Gower; two sisters, Wanda Kirkland of Seattle, Wash. and and Valera Koonts of Oskaloosa, Iowa; eight grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.