Petrick, L. Lorraine Brown

L. Lorraine Brown Petrick, 93, of Cedar Rapids, died Thursday, May 27, 2010, at the Dennis and Donna Oldorf Hospice House of Mercy, Hiawatha. At Lorraine's request there will be no services. She donated her body to the University of Iowa Department of Anatomy. Arrangements by Stewart Baxter Funeral & Memorial Services, Cedar Rapids.

Survivors include her children from her marriage to James S. Reddick: daughter, Bonnie J. Andrews of Minnesota and son, J. Howard Reddick of Illinois; a son-in-law, Gene Geiger of Cedar Rapids; five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and a niece.

Lorraine was born Dec. 9, 1916, in Perry, Iowa, to Loran and Vira (Raney) Jarnagin. She was later adopted by her mother's second husband, William Howard Reynolds. During her business career Lorraine was employed by the A&P Tea Co. as a budget analyst, the West Des Moines Express in advertising, the Wall Street Journal in sales, and the Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. as a business office supervisor, from which she retired in 1979.

She was a member of the National Honor Society, Telephone Pioneers Manzano Club, Friends of the Library, Land of Lincoln Club, Tierra del Sol County Club in Belen, N.M., past president of West Des Moines Women's Club, past president of Clover Hills PTA in West Des Moines, Nobel Grand Sweet Briar Rebekah Lodge in Des Moines, and past president of the Soroptimist Club in Ottumwa.

Lorraine enjoyed her volunteer work for the Agency for the Aged and as deacon for Olivet Presbyterian Church, where she was a member for many years.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands, Harvey M. Brown and Fred J. Petrick; a daughter, Sherry Geiger; and a sister.

Memorials may be directed to Olivet Presbyterian Church, 237 10th St. NW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52405.

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