Anna Lucille "Lucy" Price, nee Luehrman, died at 3:10 a.m., Thursday, October 7, 2003, in her home. She was born December 5, 1921, in Lexington, Missouri, to Henry and Clara (nee Nolting) Luehrman. She attended the Lexington public schools and Missouri Valley College, where she studied business for one year.
She was active for many years in Lexington Evangelical Church (U. C. C.) especially in the choir. She worked as a secretary of the board and office manager at Mattingly Company, Incorporated, in Lexington. She married James William Price of Harrisonville, Missouri, on September 18, 1949, in Lexington. The couple had two sons, John Edmund Price, of Springfield, Missouri, and James William Price, Jr., of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. The couple lived for thirty-six years in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Lucille continued her musical activities throughout her life, directing choirs in the United Methodist Church in West Bend, Iowa, and at St. Timothy's United Methodist Church in Cedar Falls. Lucille served for sixteen years as secretary to the Dean of the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls.
As a 26-year survivor of breast cancer, Lucille was a devoted participant in the American Cancer Society's Reach to Recovery program, counseling and encouraging many victims of breast cancer. Lucille's passion, aside from her family, church, and work, was genealogy. She completed a definitive history of her extended family and became skilled at reading early German church records. As a volunteer at the local LDS family history library, she helped many people with difficult translations.
Lucille is survived by her husband, James; her sons, John (Nancy) Price and James (Kathy) Price; grandchildren, Jeremy; Juliene, Emily Nora and James; brothers, Edward (Vera) Luehrman and Richard (Aileen) Luehrman; brother-in-law, C. B. (Onalee) Price; former daughters-in-law Janet (Randy) Halley and Tanya Karnick; and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins, whose ancestries Lucille dutifully recorded.
The family would like to thank Dr. Randy Halley, Cox South Medical Center, and Community Hospice of Southwest Missouri for their excellent care, making Lucille's final days as comfortable as possible.
A memorial service will be held at 5 p.m. Saturday, October 11, 2003, at National Avenue Christian Church, 1515 S. National Avenue, Springfield, Missouri. A memorial service also will be held at a later time at St. Timothy's in Cedar Falls, Iowa. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the American Cancer Society or the Nature Conservancy, 4245 N. Fairfax Avenue, Suite 100, Arlington, Virginia 22203.
Copyright Waterloo Courier, October 10, 2003, page B2.