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Mrs. Cleo Moore

  Glidden - Mrs. Cleo G. (Edith L.) Moore, 72, of Glidden died at 2:30 a.m. Saturday. Aug. 16, at St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll after a long illness. She had been a resident of Glidden for 15 years.
  A prayer service was held at 3 p. m. Sunday at the Dahn-Woodhouse Funeral Home in Glidden, with the Rev. H. Wallace Kinzler officiating. The casket was then taken to the Johnson Funeral Home in Ottumwa, where the Rev. Mr. Kinzler will conduct rites at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Burial will be in the Shaul Cemetery at Ottumwa.
  Mrs. Moore, daughter of Henry C. and Grace Bailey Waddle, was born near Agency Feb. 20, 1903. She attended Agency schools and taught for several years in rural schools in Wapello County. On Oct. 11, 1930, she was married at Ottumwa to Mike L. Kanny, who died March 21. 1959. Her marriage to Mr. Moore took place at Glidden Nov. 16, 1960. She was a member of the Baptist Church at Ottumwa.
  Surviving are her husband; four stepchildren, Mrs. Clarence d'Happart of Garland. Tex., Mrs. La Verne Feld of Marshalltown, William Moore of Davenport and James Moore of New Orleans, La.; a nephew, LeRoy Waddle of Des Moines, whom she reared; 15 stepgrandchildren and three stepgreat-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Ernest Rupe of Ottumwa; and three brothers, Robert and Willard Waddle of Ottumwa and Harvey Waddle of Brighton. Colo.
(Carroll Daily Times Herald, Iowa, Monday, August 18, 1975, p. 2)

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