L. Lorraine Petrick

L. Lorraine Brown Petrick, 93, of Cedar Rapids, died Thursday, May 27, 2010, at the Dennis & 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, 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 December 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 Company as a budget analyst, the West Des Moines Express in advertising, the Wall Street Journal in sales, and the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company 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, New Mexico, past president of the West Des Moines Women's Club, past president of the Clover Hills PTA in West Des Moines, the 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, Iowa 52405.