Verda Carmine Hervey Grimes Duke
St. Joseph News-Press OnLine, May 25, 2003
Verda C. Duke, 1913-2003
GALLATIN, Mo. - Verda Carmine Duke, 89, Gallatin, died Saturday, May 24, 2003, at a St. Joseph hospital. Service:
1 p.m. Tuesday, May 27, at the McWilliams Family Funeral Home, Gallatin. Visitation: one hour prior to service,
at the funeral home, where friends may call after 11 a.m. Monday.
Graveside service and burial: 1 p.m. Wednesday, Douds, Iowa.
Verda was born Nov. 3, 1913, to John Willard and Grace Della (Sell) Hervey, near Bentonsport, Iowa. She attended
school in the Bentonsport and Keosauqua area. Verda married Herbert V. Duke on Jan. 8, 1950, in Memphis, Mo. They
lived and farmed in Corona, S.D., until Herbert?s death in 1965. In 1970, she moved to Gallatin to be close to
her children.
Verda was a homemaker and worked for many years at the glove factory in Fairfield, Iowa. She was a member of
the Gallatin Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Preceded in death by three sisters, Gladys Beggs, Florence Mellen, Valera Koonts; and two brothers, Willard and
Robert Hervey.
Survivors: three sons, Charles Grimes, St. Joseph, John Grimes, Pueblo, Colo., Raymond Grimes, Brandon, S.D.;
two daughters, Donna Cole, Gallatin, Joyce Brown, Gower; sister, Wanda Kirkland, Seattle, Wash.; eight grandchildren;
11 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren. [Submitted
by Sara Hemp]
