Berniece Mcmillin Lecocq

Ethel Bernice McMillin LeCocq was born on December 3, 1905 at Lost Nation, Iowa. Her parents were Ernest A. McMillin and Merta Drury Hill McMillin. At age four her family moved to a farm southeast of Ruthven, Iowa. She attended rural school throughout the eighth grade and graduated from Ruthven High School and Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa majoring in Home Economics. While teaching in Garden Grove she met and subsequently married Charles Louis LeCocq II on August 3, 1934 in Ruthven. After marriage they lived in Garden Grove, Jefferson and Dubuque, Iowa. In Dubuque Bernice stopped teaching and became a homemaker and raise two wonderful children while Louie taught math, chemistry and science. He became a school administrator and was Curriculum and Personnel Director at the time of his death in October1966. Mr. LeCocq was a veteran having served three years in the Navy during World War II. Bernice is survived by two children: Charles LeCocq and his wife Carole of Camarillo, California and Linda LeCocq Bahr and her husband Richard of Duncombe, Iowa. Bernice is also survived by her brother, Lester McMillin and his wife Gladys who reside at the Highlands in Spencer, IA. Bernice has 7 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and several very dear nephews and nieces. Bernice was proceeded in death by her parents, husband, sister Leta, and brothers Roy, Max and Clifford. Bernice was a forty year member of St. Luke's Methodist Church in Dubuque, Iowa. For the last several years a member of Grace United Methodist Church in Spencer, Iowa. She was a 50 year member of PEO Sisterhood, Chapters KI and KF, and the Iowa State Teachers Association. She was actively involved in programs for PEO and Bible study till the end. Bernice gardened, wrote insightful poetry, loved flowers, nature, fashion, her family, her church, and adventuresome till the very end. Bernice was a noble, faithful and devout servant to her Lord, a truly loving and caring human being.

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