1. 2. Doris Elaine HOOK   b. 1 Dec 1919, Sloan, Woodbury, Iowa; d. 23 Feb 1998, Rice Memorial Hospital, Willmar, Kandiyohi, Minnesota; bur. 27 Feb 1998, Oak Hill Cemetery, New London, Kandiyohi, Minnesota.

Elaine Lamb
Elaine Lamb, 78, of New London, Minn., formerly of Sioux City and Sloan, Iowa, died Monday, Feb. 23, 1998, at Rice Memorial Hospital in Willmar, Minn.

Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday at Hope Presbyterian Church in Spicer, Minn., with the Rev. Jack Anderson and the Rev. Dan Johnson officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery at New London. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Johnson Funeral Home in New London. Visitation will resume one hour prior to the service Friday at the church.

Mrs. Lamb was born Dec. 1, 1919, in Sloan, the daughter of Dwight A. and Gladys Lorraine (Goodwin) Hook. She was baptized and confirmed in the Christian faith.

She was raised in Sloan and graduated from Sloan Consolidated School in 1937. She received her bachlor of science degree from the University of Iowa in 1941.

She was employed as a legal secretary and paralegal secretary in Sioux City.

She married Verlyn Lamb on Jan. 1, 1946, in Omaha, Neb. The couple lived in Sioux City until retiring in 1973 and moved to the South shore of Nest Lake in Minnesota. He died Oct. 9, 1983.

She was a member of Hope Presbyterian Church, the Hope Presbyterian Women Groups, two groups of Bible study and in Sioux City the Eastern Star.

She enjoyed reading, crossword puzzles and flowers.

Survivors include five sons, James and his wife, Karen, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Michael of Long Lake, Minn., David and his wife, Kay, of Caldwell, Idaho, Timothy of Willmar and Jonathan and his wife, Toni, of Atwater, Minn.; 13 grandchildren; and three brothers, Gordon Heath of Tallapoosa, Ga., Robert "Gus" Heath of Gettysburg, S.D., and Larry Heath of of Byers, Colo.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Source: Sioux City Journal, Wednesday, February 25, 1998

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