Obituaries Lucille Creighton
Friday, 30 September 2011 13:56
Lucille Creighton
Service Information
| Services | 2:00 pm, Saturday at the Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall, 55 Newell St. in Waterloo. |
| Visitation | 6:00 to 8:00 pm, Friday at Locke Funeral Home, 1519 West 4th St. in Waterloo and for an hour before services on Saturday at the Kingdom Hall. |
| Cemetery | Garden of Memories Cemetery Waterloo, Iowa |
| Memorials |
Biography Information
Lucille Creighton, 86, of Las Vegas, Nevada, and formerly of Waterloo, Iowa, died on Friday, September 30, 2011, at Manor Health Care in Las Vegas, from complications of diabetes.
She was born January 27, 1925 in Jackson, Alabama, the daughter of Charlie and Mary Fox. She married Love Joy Bumpers on October 19, 1941; they were later divorced. After WWII, she married David Creighton and they moved to Waterloo. David died in 1980.
Lucille worked as a cook at the Black Hawk County Halfway House for several years. She retired in 1992. Lucille was a faithful and devoted member of the Jehovah Witness faith.
She is survived by one brother, Sam (Ola) Fox of Mobile, Alabama; one daughter, Vernita Jean Betty of Las Vegas; six sons: Floyd Bumpers, Sr. of Waterloo, Rev. Donald Kidd Sr. of Mobile, Leon Creighton of Des Moines, Larry Creighton of New Mexico, Lorenzo (Lisa) Creighton of Las Vegas, and Tommy Creighton of Delhi; 20 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and 6 great-great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
Lucille is preceded in death by her three brothers: Charlie, Archie and Cleveland Fox and granddaughter, Niki Lennett Creighton.
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Condolences (7)
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To the Family of Lucille: Please accept my condolesces. I worked with Lucille many years ago. She taught me so much about how to cook and garden!.. which skills i have been able to pass with love to my own family and remember her by. She was one of a kind!.
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October 07, 2011
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To Lucille's family. I am sorry for your loss. I worked with Lucille for years and she was a Character.
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October 07, 2011
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Please accept our sincere condolences for the loss of your loved one. This is one of the most difficult things we must face in our life. May it comfort you to know that others are deeply touched by your loss. God assures us at Psalms 34:18 that he is near to those broken in heart and those crushed in spirit he saves. Jesus also promises that we will be able to see our loved ones again. Jesus own words found at John 5:28,29 tells us there will be a resurrection. What a wonderful hope! God says that soon on the earth there will be no more pain, suffering and especially death at Revelation 21:3-5 We anxiously await the day when we will no longer lose those we love. May these bible thoughts bring you comfort at this most difficult time.
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October 07, 2011
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wanted to express my deepest sympathy to ms lucille's family. she was a sweetheart.
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October 07, 2011
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Raised, to our beloved Queen Mother, may you rest in eternal peace: All my memories of you are fond. THIS VOICE IS TRUE
Dear family, I am deeply disheartened as all of you are at the passing of Queen Mother Creighton. We will not be distressed or troubled but we will grow stronger and closer together as family on one accord in peace. Funerals are for the living and I would like to have been there for the ritual of her passing, even thou my attendance may have been required, I am sorry I could not attend. I would like you to know, I am with you in spirit.
I would like to make a couple points regarding my relationship with Queen Mother Creighton. My first remembrance of Lucille and David Creighton was a Sunday afternoon at parents’ home. They were dinner guest. I never met them before that Sunday, I studied my parents as they entertain David and Lucille that Sunday afternoon and evening, and might I add … they enjoyed each other company very much.
I knew something amazing was taken place something significant. It is building the bonds of friendship. After there meeting and bonding alliances it had never been broken. We the son of this alliance traverse time and space in friendship and peace. Salam
Mrs. Creighton had a very serious influence on my life. It was some years later that through Mrs. Creighton that I got my first gainful employment. A job, with cheeks and benefits., busting suds and later advancing to washing dishes. I had jobs before then (as a caddie in the park district at Burns and Gates golf courses as well as Sunnyside country club) (selling Girt newspaper, and on my brothers rented ice cream cart.) David and Lucille had a collective work ethic that created a quality of life that was second to no one in our community.
Lucille, I believe was happiest when she was working she enjoyed cooking and she cook very well, you all would second my motion. She was second in command to on one. Moreover, she ran a very tight ship at work as well as at home. Everything you got through Mrs. Creighton you earned it, praise could come as a smile. She expected much of you. Therefore, you gave more Leon spent many hours reasoning on that question. Have or did work that one out yet. My brother? There are many parallels between my mom Ruccell and Lucille the quit immediacy and all of the above even the nearness in the spelling of there names.
There is one final point I would like build on… I moved back to Waterloo for a brief period in 1982. Waterloo was not the same place; everyone I knew or knew me had moved on or moved away. King David had made his transition in 1980, and the Queen Mother was at the house on Linden Street living there along. In a time of her personal grieving of King David death. I would stop she would invite in and we would set and talk in the kitchen. Moreover, at other time I would talk with her through the kitchen window
I got a lot joy from those times.
This is part of and parcel of my reflections of are Mom, in your flight of transition as you take your place with the ancestors carry me with you.
ANSAAR SHABAZZ
Dear family, I am deeply disheartened as all of you are at the passing of Queen Mother Creighton. We will not be distressed or troubled but we will grow stronger and closer together as family on one accord in peace. Funerals are for the living and I would like to have been there for the ritual of her passing, even thou my attendance may have been required, I am sorry I could not attend. I would like you to know, I am with you in spirit.
I would like to make a couple points regarding my relationship with Queen Mother Creighton. My first remembrance of Lucille and David Creighton was a Sunday afternoon at parents’ home. They were dinner guest. I never met them before that Sunday, I studied my parents as they entertain David and Lucille that Sunday afternoon and evening, and might I add … they enjoyed each other company very much.
I knew something amazing was taken place something significant. It is building the bonds of friendship. After there meeting and bonding alliances it had never been broken. We the son of this alliance traverse time and space in friendship and peace. Salam
Mrs. Creighton had a very serious influence on my life. It was some years later that through Mrs. Creighton that I got my first gainful employment. A job, with cheeks and benefits., busting suds and later advancing to washing dishes. I had jobs before then (as a caddie in the park district at Burns and Gates golf courses as well as Sunnyside country club) (selling Girt newspaper, and on my brothers rented ice cream cart.) David and Lucille had a collective work ethic that created a quality of life that was second to no one in our community.
Lucille, I believe was happiest when she was working she enjoyed cooking and she cook very well, you all would second my motion. She was second in command to on one. Moreover, she ran a very tight ship at work as well as at home. Everything you got through Mrs. Creighton you earned it, praise could come as a smile. She expected much of you. Therefore, you gave more Leon spent many hours reasoning on that question. Have or did work that one out yet. My brother? There are many parallels between my mom Ruccell and Lucille the quit immediacy and all of the above even the nearness in the spelling of there names.
There is one final point I would like build on… I moved back to Waterloo for a brief period in 1982. Waterloo was not the same place; everyone I knew or knew me had moved on or moved away. King David had made his transition in 1980, and the Queen Mother was at the house on Linden Street living there along. In a time of her personal grieving of King David death. I would stop she would invite in and we would set and talk in the kitchen. Moreover, at other time I would talk with her through the kitchen window
I got a lot joy from those times.
This is part of and parcel of my reflections of are Mom, in your flight of transition as you take your place with the ancestors carry me with you.
ANSAAR SHABAZZ
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October 08, 2011
In the words of Robert Frost,
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower.
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.