Obits: Peery, Cordia Asbury, died  05/15/1948
Oct. 2002
Wolfe County, KY 

Submitted by: http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000062 
Wolfe County Genealogy and  Carole Bays
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Wolfe County news,  May 21, 1948

DEATH LAYS CLAIM TO BELOVED CITIZEN

All this community is grieved at the death of one of its most beloved 
citizens, Mrs. Cordia Peery, who passed away just before midnight, 
Saturday, May 15, at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Lexington.

She had been a patient there for a week prior to her death and ill at 
her home here for a week before being taken to the hospital.  Her 
illness was diagnosed as Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.

She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. James Catchings of Dayton, Ohio, 
and Miss Maude Mae Peery of Frankfort; three grandchildren; and her 
parents, O.T. and Nancy Asbury, who made their home with Mrs. Peery here; 
two sisters, Mrs. W.C. Smith of Campton and Mrs. Hobart Young of St. 
Albins, West VA., and a brother, James Asbury, of Dayton, Ohio.  She 
leaves also numerous other relatives and a host of friends.

Funeral services were conducted at the Campton Methodist Church on 
Wednesday morning at 10:00.  The pastor, Rev. J.H. Lewis, had charge of the 
services.

Mrs. Peery was a member of the Campton Methodist Church where she was a 
loyal worker for many years.  She was always willing and ready to help 
anyone in need, visiting the sick often with words of encouragement.  
She had been connected with the County Health Office for 12 years.  She 
ran a shoe repair shop in connection, with her home.  A very 
industrious person, always seeming to have an excess of engery.

She will be greatly missed throughout the entire community where she 
was widely known.


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