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Willamina Marie “Willie” Vandament McLaughlin

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Birth	:	6 Dec 1919 Lancaster, Keokuk County, Iowa, USA
Death	:	14 Jun 2016 Clinton, Clinton County, Iowa, USA
Burial	:	Pennington Cemetery, Sigourney, Keokuk County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.2769012, -92.2050018
Description	:	Willamina Marie (Vandament) McLaughlin age 96 of Clinton, passed away Tuesday June 14, 2016 at The Alverno Health Care Facility, Clinton. Funeral services will be held 11:00 AM Thursday June 30th at the First Congregational Church. Visitation will be held Thursday 10:00 AM until the service hour at the Church. The Pape Funeral Home is assisting the family. Burial will be held 11:00 AM Friday, July 1st at the Pennington Cemetery in Sigourney, IA. Memorials may be given to the American Cancer Society. She died on June 14, 2016. Willamina, known by her friends as "Willie", was born on December 6,... Read More	Willamina Marie (Vandament) McLaughlin age 96 of Clinton, passed away Tuesday June 14, 2016 at The Alverno Health Care Facility, Clinton. Funeral services will be held 11:00 AM Thursday June 30th at the First Congregational Church. Visitation will be held Thursday 10:00 AM until the service hour at the Church. The Pape Funeral Home is assisting the family. Burial will be held 11:00 AM Friday, July 1st at the Pennington Cemetery in Sigourney, IA. Memorials may be given to the American Cancer Society. She died on June 14, 2016. Willamina, known by her friends as "Willie", was born on December 6, 1919 in Lancaster, Iowa the daughter of Claude and Charlotte Wilkening Vandament. She attended the Lancaster and Doggett rural schools and graduated from Sigourney High School in 1937. Following graduation, she was employed as secretary to the Superintendent of Schools and later in the office of the Keokuk County Engineer. On June 15, 1941 she married Lyle V. Smith. A son Ronald David Smith was born on Christmas Day, 1942 and died of acute leukemia on March 8, 1960 at the age of seventeen. The Smiths divorced in 1965. She attended Iowa Success Business School in Ottumwa and worked in the Registrar’s Office of Parsons College in Fairfield. In 1970 she bought "Willie's Dancing Needle", a Sewing Center in Fairfield, Iowa. In 1983 she moved to Clinton and was employed by ABC Cleaners in the Alterations Department. In 1992 she married Dr. Richard P. McLaughlin and they divorced in 1996. She was a volunteer and set up the "Living Memorials" of the Keokuk County Chapter of the American Cancer Society. Willie was a member of the First Congregational Church, Clinton Women’s Club, the Culture Club, Clinton County Republican Women, the Mayflower Circle, and Lancaster Heritage. She worked at the polls a number of years and enjoyed yard work, refinishing wood, ceramics painting, cake decorating, flowers, and music. Upon her son's death she competed in local and county flower shows winning blue ribbons. She was a Sunday School teacher and sang in the Sigourney Christian Church Choir and other church choirs where she was living, and with the "Clintones" until losing her singing voice. Willie was preceded in death by her parents, her son Ronald, sister Dorothy Luckritz, brother Doyle Vandament, and brother William Vandament & wife Marilyn in an auto accident. She is survived by nephews and nieces, Robert (Julie) Luckritz, Lona (Wylie) Pillers, Lyle Vandament, Karla (Michael) Kuntz, Sally (Randy) Vodney, Tammy (Robert) Celing, Bill Vandament, and Ruby Jane (Travis) Cash. Obituary & photo published by Pape Funeral Home

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Willamina Marie “Willie” Vandament McLaughlin death on 14 Jun 2016 in Clinton, Clinton County, Iowa, USA
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Latitude: 41.2769012
Longitude: -92.2050018

Family Members:

Parent

Claude Winnie Vandament

(1891 - 1959)

Charlotte Alma Wilkening Vandament

(1893 - 1948)

Spouse

Lyle Vernon Smith

(1922 - 2000)

Dr Richard Patrick McLaughlin

(1920 - 2007)

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