Lucille Neumann, 93, formerly of Cambridge, died Monday, June 29, 2009, at Hillcrest Home, rural Geneseo. Funeral services were held Thursday, July 2, at the Cambridge Chapel of Stackhouse-Moore Funeral Services. The Rev. John Eisfelder officiated. Burial was in Rosedale Cemetery, Cambridge. Visitation was held Wednesday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Hillcrest Home Auxiliary.
The former Mamie Lucille Scott was born Sept. 21, 1915, in Cambridge, the daughter of Mark and Mamie (Mizner) Scott. She was educated in Cambridge and graduated from Cambridge High School in 1933. She attended a business school in Davenport, Iowa. She married Kenneth D. Neumann Jan. 17, 1940, in Cambridge. He died May 13, 1963. She worked at the Country Companies Insurance office in Cambridge from 1952 to 1955. She was then employed at the Henry County Clerk and Recorder’s Office as deputy county recorder, retiring in 1982. She was a member of the Cambridge United Methodist Church and the United Methodist Women. She was a 50-year member of the Mystic Chapter No. 160, Order of the Easter Star, Cambridge.
Survivors include a son and spouse, Lyle and Priscilla Neumann of Springfield; a granddaughter and spouse, Cherri and Lance Dolieslager of Kewanee; two stepgrandchildren, Lora Dhom of Springfield and Stephen Gharst of Peoria; a sister, Aimee Hungate of East Moline, and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a grandson, Curtis Neumann, and two sisters.


