Obit: Funeral services for Fanchon I. Quick were held May 28, 1987, at the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Dow City with Elder Joe Cook and Elder Vincent Argotsinger officiating. Beverly Custer, organist, accompanied Vincent and Laura Argotsinger who sang "How Great Thou Art" and the congregational singing of "The Old, Old Path". Burial was in the Dow City Cemetery. Serving as pallbearers were Bryce Argotsinger, Robert Custer, Curtis Thompson, Bruce Thompson, Ace Ettleman, and Dwight Bramley. Fanchon I. Quick was born October 8, 1906, in Shelby County near Dunlap, the son of Oscar LeRoy Quick and Minnie Fouts Quick. He died May 26, 1987, at his home in Dow City after a long illness. Fanchon, the oldest of 10 children, attended rural schools near Dunlap and graduated from the Dunlap High School in 1923. He was united in marriage to Jessie Thompson on August 18, 1926, at the home of Elder Fred Fry at Woodbine. To this union two daughters were born, Frances Rae and Barbara Jean. Fanchon and Jessie farmed in the Dow City area until 1938 when they moved to the State of Washington. He was employed as a timber faller. They moved back to Iowa in 1944 returning to farming near Dow City. In January of 1959 they moved into Dow City entering the trucking and feed business. After selling his business in 1968 they moved back to the farm. After retiring they moved into Dow City where he made his home until death. In December 1948 he was baptized in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Church in Dow City. On October 8, 1950, he was ordained as a deacon and on June 30, 1957, he was ordained as an elder. He served as pastor of the Dow City and Castana churches at two different times each. His health started to fail in 1973 with Parkinson's disease. He was survived by his wife Jessie, daughters Frances Rae and her husband James (Spike) Abbott of Council Bluffs, and Barbara Jean and her husband Ward Kilgore of Leon, seven grandchildren 13 great-grandchildren and one step-great granddaughter.