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Dollie Ora Wilks  Dollie Ora Wilks
Female 1904 - 2000

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  • Birth  15 Aug 1904  Bachelor, Callaway, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender  Female 
    Obituary  Monday, April 17th, 2000  What Cheer, Keokuk, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    bulletin at the Harden Funeral Home 
    • Dollie was born on August 15th 1904 in Callaway County, Missouri, the daughter of Rufus and Oddie Day Wilks. She was raised in Callaway County and graduated from Auxvasse High School in Missouri.
      On February 14th of 1925, Dollie was united in marriage to John W. Lewis in Fulton, Missouri. Shortly after they settled east of What Cheer where Dollie began raising her family. She moved to the Oskaloosa area in the early 1950's and after the death of her husband in 1966 began working as a seamstress out of her home.
      A resident of What Cheer for many years, Dollie had been a resident of the Pleasant Park Estates since 1992. She was a 50 year member of the Eastern Star Aspasia Chapter #198 at Sigourney and had attended the First Christian Church of Oskaloosa.
      Dollie's memory is honored by her son and daughter-in-law, Don and Alberta Lewis of What Cheer, her daughter and son-in-law, Margaret and Gerald Phillips of Delta, her five grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and her sister Lucille [Mrs. Max] Foulds of Albun [Auburn], California. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a daughter, Bettylu Stevenson, a son, Paul Lewis, five brothers, Leo, Ira, Lowell, Paul, and Linwood Wilks and five sisters, Bessie Owens, Mary Carrington, Iris Bost, Virginia Sherman, and Frances Wilks.
      Pallbearers were: Doug Swim, Jim Harris, Earl McKay, Jerry Baker, David Stevenson, Kevin Phillips
      Burial at Indianapolis Cemetery, near What Cheer.
    Died  13 Apr 2000  What Cheer, Keokuk, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Cause: Alzheimers and a Stroke 
    Obituary  15 Apr 2000  Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gazette (Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA) 
    • Dollie Ora Wilks Lewis, 95, died Thursday, April 13, 2000, in Pleasant Park Nursing Home, Oskaloosa, following a stroke. Services: 10:30 a.m. Monday, Harden Funeral Chapel, What Cheer, by the Rev. Vince Homan. Interment: Indianapolis Cemetery, near What Cheer. Friends may call after 10 a.m. Sunday at the chapel, with the family present from 6 to 8 p.m.
      Survivors include a son, Don Lewis of What Cheer; a daughter, Margaret Phillips of Delta; and a sister, Lucille Foulds of Albun, Calif.
    Buried  Indianapolis Cemetery, What Cheer, Keokuk, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID  I377  Herring Family of Callaway County, Missouri
    Last Modified  09 Jun 2009 
     
    Father  James Rufus Wilks,   b. 30 May 1871, Taylor's Store, Franklin, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Oct 1951, Grinnell, Poweshiek, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Oddie Elizabeth Day,   b. 19 Mar 1876, Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Sep 1952, Grinnell, Poweshiek, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  2 Jan 1894  Auxvasse, Callaway, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage  50th Wedding Anniversary 
    Family ID  F116  Group Sheet
     
    Family  John Walden Lewis,   b. 17 Dec 1903, Auxvasse, Callaway, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Dec 1966, Oskaloosa, Mahaska, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  14 Feb 1925  , Callaway, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Donald Eugene Lewis,   b. 4 Jun 1926, , , Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 May 2004, What Cheer, Keokuk, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    >2. Bettylou Lewis,   b. 2 Jul 1928, , , Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Aug 1983, , , Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    >3. Living
    >4. Paul Sidney Lewis,   b. 17 Oct 1932, , , Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1965
    Last Modified  27 Aug 2005 
    Family ID  F821  Group Sheet
     
  • Photos
    Wilks, Dollie    		Wilks, Dollie
    Dollie Ora Wilks, daugher of James Rufus Wilks and Oddie Day. Picture taken in 1907 in Callaway Co., Missouri. She was my grandAunt.
    Lewis, Dollie Wilks    		Lewis, Dollie Wilks
    Dollie Wilks Lewis was my grandAunt, daughter of James Rufus Wilks and Oddie Day. They lived in Iowa.
    Wilks family    		Wilks family
    Taken in the late 1980's, Wilks brothers and sisters. Front row, Dollie Wilks Lewis, Lucielle Wilks Foulds. Seated on couch, Lowell Wilks, Leo Wilks, Virginia Wilks Sherman, and Paul Wilks.
     
  • Notes 
    • John and Dollie lived most of their lives in Iowa, in and around Ottumwa, Oskaloosa, and What Cheer and Grinnell. Besides farming, they did extensive cattle and hog feeding and marketing. After John's death, Dollie ran a rooming house and took in sewing for a number of years until her health failed. She lived with Donald and Berty until going to a nursing home. Dollie was born in the log house in August. Her parents left her with a wet nurse in Fulton and went to St. Louis to the World's Fair - 1904
      1965 - John and Dollie came to the Wilks reunion, as they usually did. So did son, Paulie and wife and son, Jesse, all living in Oskaloosa, Iowa.
      1992, March - Dollie went into a care facility -They say she has Alzheimer's
      Oskaloosa

      DOLLIE ORA WILKS LEWIS 1904 - 2000 WHAT CHEER - Dollie Ora Wilks Lewis, 95, of What Cheer, died Thursday, April 13, at Pleasant Park Estates in Oskaloosa. Her funeral service will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at Harden Funeral Chapel in What Cheer, the Rev. Vince Homan officiating. Burial: Indianapolis Cemetery near What Cheer.
      Ottumwa
      Dollie Lewis
      WHAT CHEER - Dollie Ora Wilks Lewis, 95, of What Cheer died of complications from a stroke on April 13, 2000, at Pleasant Park Nursing Home in Oskaloosa.
     
  • Event Map
    		Event
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 15 Aug 1904 - Bachelor, Callaway, Missouri, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 14 Feb 1925 - , Callaway, Missouri, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsObituary - bulletin at the Harden Funeral Home - Monday, April 17th, 2000 - What Cheer, Keokuk, Iowa, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - Cause: Alzheimers and a Stroke - 13 Apr 2000 - What Cheer, Keokuk, Iowa, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsObituary - Gazette (Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA) - 15 Apr 2000 - Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Indianapolis Cemetery, What Cheer, Keokuk, Iowa, USA Link to Google Earth
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