Olive Aucock

Funeral Services were held 2:00 P.M., Saturday, October 29, 1983 at the Giltner United Methodist Church. Interment was held in the Lerton Cemetery near Giltner.

OBITUARY: Olive Aucock

Olive Angeline Aucock was born September 6, 1891 in St. James, Nebraska, daughter of Frank and Lucy McKenzie. She moved with her parents to South Dakota, graduated from high school in Spencer, South Dakota and then taught schools in Gross, Nebraska. It was here that she met Francis Aucock, the young pastor newly arrived from England and assigned to the Methodist Episcopal Churches of Gross and Bristow. Her magnificent singing voice and love for music, for which she was noted all her life, game them a common interest.

Olive Angeline McKenzie and Rev. Francis J. Aucock were married on September 6, 1919 in Bristow, Nebraska. During their fifty years together they also served pastorates in the Nebraska communities of Dakota City, Brunswick, Belden, Fairfield, Wausa, O’Neill, Rising City, Raymond, Giltner and Doniphan. In retirement they were appointed to Edgar and Ong and twice returned to serve the Methodist Church in Giltner, where they made their home.

Rev. Aucock passed away in 1965 and after his death Mrs. Aucock moved to Aurora, Nebraska. Survivors include her four daughters, Ethel (Mrs. Gerald) Higgins of Aurora, Olive (Mrs. Fred) Anderson of Pecatonica, Illinois, Frances (Mrs. John) Nickens of Limon, Colorado and Marjorie (Mrs. Stanley) Gustafson of Esmond, Illinois, twelve grandchildren and twenty six great-grandchildren, a sister, Julia (Mrs. Art) Remmele of Chamberlain, South Dakota and a brother, Frank McKenzie of Winner, South Dakota.

Mrs. Aucock was 92 years of age when she passed away at Hamilton Manor on October 26, 1983. Her firm faith and generous spirit have enriched the many lives she has touched in that long span of years.