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NAME: Dayton, Laurena Florence (m. Henry Canfield)

OBIT: Daily Freeman-Journal, Webster City, IA, Wed. Mar 10, 1976, pg. 11

MRS. HENRY (LORRAINE) CANFIELD
  Mrs. Henry (Lorraine) Canfield, 77, longtime Webster City area resident, died Tuesday afternoon at the Hamilton County hospital where she had been a patient for two weeks.
 Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Foster Funeral home with the Rev. V. Clay Noah officiating and with burial in Graceland cemetery.
 Lorraine Florence Dayton, daughter of Harry M. and Clara Dingman Dayton, was born Nov. 1, 1898 in Lehigh. She was reared and educated in the Webster City schools.
 On April 22, 1916, she was united in marriage to Henry (Happy) Canfield, and the couple farmed for several years south of Webster City before moving in to Webster City, her home since.
 She was preceded in death by her husband in 1973.
 She is survived by two daughters and one son, Mrs. Roger N. (Catherine) Johnson of Eldorado, Kan., Mrs. Harold E. (Ida) Riley of Webster City and Harry Canfield of Webster City; one grandson, Ronald Aikins of Marshalltown, who was reared in the Canfield home; 15 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. She is also survived by three sisters: Mrs. Stella Wells, Mrs. Vera Goodrich, and Mrs. Taro (Veda) Smeesu, all of Webster City.
 She was preceded in death by her husband; two daughters; her parents, one brother and one sister.
 Mrs. Canfield was a member of the First Baptist church and a former member of the Senior Citizens and the Moose Lodge.

Contributed by Nadine Dingman