Anna “Annie” Lucille Lininger was born on November 29, 1897 in Oakland, Garret County, Maryland to George Albert Lininger and Cora Viola Gnagy. She was the second eldest of 12 children.
Lucille graduated from West High School in 1918, she was on the Senior Honor Roll for achieving 90 percent plus for her four years work. Her yearbook describes her “while one of our number she has been a conscientious and industrious worker. The Forum Society claimed her spare time and attention and she won high honors in the English course.” Her high school principal
At the age of 21 Lucille married Art Mosher, 23, on August 12,1919 in Faribault, Minnesota. They were married by Rev. John Hall, a Methodist minister. They returned to Waterloo and lived as boarders with George Crane at 1019 Washington Street. The 1920 census lists her working as a housekeeper for the Provate family.
Art and Lucille had 3 children, Thelma Kathryn (1920-2005), Roger Arthur (1921-2000) and Jackson Allen (1928-2003). They moved to 202 Linden near Art’s mother. In 1930 they lived at 1130 Hammond Rd. By 1940 the family lived at 103 Alta Vista Avenue. Lucille was an assistant manager at a dairy, probably working with Art at Fairway Dairy. She lost younger brother George Allen (1915-1930) to heart disease, sister Lulu Grace (1912-1936) in an automobile accident, and William Ernest (1916-1944) in WWII.
Lucille attended Iowa State Teacher’s College in Cedar Falls for 1 year, and later was employed as a nurses’ aid at St. Francis Hospital. Lucille was an exceptional homemaker, she always had a batch of newly baked bread in the works, and was ready to cook something for her grandchildren who lived across the street and were alway welcome stop by to chat and eat some warm bread. She loved to fish and had a big vegetable garden in her backyard, her yard was also filled with beautiful flower gardens.