FLORENCE CITIZEN - FLORENCE, FREMONT COUNTY, COLORADO - MAY 14, 1959

MARY ETHEL ZISK

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Ethel Zisk, late of Penrose, were held Wednesday morning, May 13, at Florence mortuary chapel. The Rev. Clyde Smith of Canon City officiated. Mrs. C. Edward Whitenett and Mrs. George Heaton, accompanied on the organ by Mrs. J. V. McCandless, sang "Beyond the Sunset" and "I Know Who Holds Tomorrow."
Mrs. Zisk died at a local hospital Sunday, May 10, at 5:50 a.m. She was born Jan. 12, 1895, at Orlando, Okla., and was 64 years of age. She had been ill the past 18 months. A resident of Penrose 15 years, she came from Cripple Creek, where she spent 15 years after living in Camargo, Okla., since she was a child.
Of the Methodist faith, she married Leo Zisk in Cripple Creek in 1944. He survives, as do eight children: Mrs. Winona Jones, Colorado Springs; Mrs. Aletha Cockburn, Penrose; Leo Roberts, Penrose; Mrs. Vonna Morris, Nye, Mont.; Mrs. Alma Donaher, Leadville; Mrs. Billie Ruth Faye, Cripple 'Creek; Mrs. Bobbie Jones, Colorado Springs and Mrs. Patsy Jo Simpson, Anaheim, Calif. Other survivors are five grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Stepchildren surviving Mrs. Zisk are Mrs. Mary Beach, Canon City; Mrs. Teresa Jacobs, Denver; Chester Zisk, Manarovia, Calif., and Mrs. Louise Fleetwood, Ouray, Colo.; six step-grandchildren and four step-great-grandchildren.
Other survivors are two sisters: Mrs. Alma Coram, Camargo, Okla.; and Mrs. Melissa Nutter, Rose, Kan.
Pallbearers were Clarence Donaher, Thomas Faye, Guy Morris, Kenneth Jones, and Russell Jones, all sons-in-law; and Bert Bratt.
Interment was in Lakeside cemetery at Canon City, under the direction of Florence Mortuary.
Gravesite Details
Lakeside Cemetery Register courtesy of Royal Gorge Regional Museum & History, P. O. Box 1460, Canon City, CO 81215-1460, (719) 269-9036, Fax: (719) 269-8215, historycenter@canoncity.org
On Find A Grave.
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John Henry Tuck family

John Henry Tuck 1818-1900 Tennessee
Martha Ann Gentry Tuck 1815-1899 Kentucky

Children:
Martha Jane 1837-1877 Married Joe Moore
William Wallace 1843-1900 Married Hannah Frances Kenner
John "Polk" 1847-1921 Married 1. Margaret Riley 2. Mary Elize Noel
David Thomas 1848-1927 Married Sophie Hayes
Mary Ann 1854-1927 Married William Patrick Riley
America Susan "Aunt Mick" 1855?-1916 Married James William Payne
Joseph Alexander "Jody" * 1859-1923 Married 1. Selety E. Neal 2. Ellen Babb

Joseph “jody” Tuck family

*Joseph "Jody" Tuck the youngest child of John Henry Tuck was born in Buchanan Co., Mo. and died in Dewey Co., OK. He married Selety Neal in Buchanan Co. They had two daughters--Anna and Malissa. Selety and Jody divorced as Selety left Jody for a Mr. Riley of Buchanan Co. (The Tucks married into the Riley family at least twice, see above) later, Jody married Ellen Babb in Logan County, OK, and they had three daughters--Ethel, Jessie, and Alma. Jody "made the run in Indian Territory in Logan County then moved on to homestead in Okla Territory in Dewey County. Jody was a farmer and is best remembered by the early settlers as a Blacksmith.

Children and families of Jody Tuck
Anna Susan "Annie" 1886-1950 Married William Wallace Peard
Children: Bill, Joe, Vilma, John, Kenneth "Shorty"

Malissa Lottie 1888-1971 Married Art Oliver Hart
Children: Sylvan "Buckskin Bill", Joseph, Minnie, Anna Pearl, Arta, Thomas, Dorothy

Mary Ethel Married Artie Roberts
Children: Winona, Aletha "Peggy", Leo, Vonna, Alma, Billie Ruth, Bobby Jean, Patsy Jo.

Jessie Earl 1898-1945 Married Edgar Moran
Children: Wanna "Mutt", Pauline, Willis "Bill", Joanna, Cleo, Donna June

Alma Leota 1904-1963 Married Elmer"Rusty"Coram
No Children

Compiled by Joanna Peard 1987

Posted on Ancestry by Linda Self.

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