Ramona Lois Bell 85, longtime resident of rural Iowa City died Tuesday, August 11, 2015, at the Crestview Nursing and Rehab Center in West Branch.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 am Friday, August 14, 2015, at the Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Iowa City, with burial to follow at Memory Gardens Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 pm Thursday at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service. In lieu of flowers a memorial fund has been established in Ramona's memory.
Ramona Lois Marshall was born December 11, 1929, in Iowa City the daughter of Alvin E. and Mable C. (Coon) Marshall. She attended country school near Riverside in her youth, and later Lone Tree High School. She was united in marriage to Clifford Bell on December 8, 1948, in Iowa City. For a few years the couple farmed near Ainsworth, Iowa before moving to their farm near Iowa City in 1953 which they still own. She had worked at the Iowa City Randall's Grocery Store and was the "Avon Lady" for a number of years. But most of all she loved being on the farm, her gardens, flowers, the neighborhood clubs, dancing with her husband in the dance halls of eastern Iowa, and her family! Ramona lived to love and care for her husband, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, she was in her glory with them.
Survivors are name sin the full obituary @ www.gayandciha.com.
She was preceded in death by her parents, brothers, Maynard, Bernard "Bud", and Harold Marshall; and sisters, Wilma Garwood, and Dorothy Evans.
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Funeral services will be held at 10:30 am Friday, August 14, 2015, at the Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Iowa City, with burial to follow at Memory Gardens Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 pm Thursday at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service. In lieu of flowers a memorial fund has been established in Ramona's memory.
Ramona Lois Marshall was born December 11, 1929, in Iowa City the daughter of Alvin E. and Mable C. (Coon) Marshall. She attended country school near Riverside in her youth, and later Lone Tree High School. She was united in marriage to Clifford Bell on December 8, 1948, in Iowa City. For a few years the couple farmed near Ainsworth, Iowa before moving to their farm near Iowa City in 1953 which they still own. She had worked at the Iowa City Randall's Grocery Store and was the "Avon Lady" for a number of years. But most of all she loved being on the farm, her gardens, flowers, the neighborhood clubs, dancing with her husband in the dance halls of eastern Iowa, and her family! Ramona lived to love and care for her husband, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, she was in her glory with them.
Survivors are name sin the full obituary @ www.gayandciha.com.
She was preceded in death by her parents, brothers, Maynard, Bernard "Bud", and Harold Marshall; and sisters, Wilma Garwood, and Dorothy Evans.
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Ramona Lois Bell 85, longtime resident of rural Iowa City died Tuesday, August 11, 2015, at the Crestview Nursing and Rehab Center in West Branch.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 am Friday, August 14, 2015, at the Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Iowa City, with burial to follow at Memory Gardens Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 pm Thursday at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service. In lieu of flowers a memorial fund has been established in Ramona's memory.
Ramona Lois Marshall was born December 11, 1929, in Iowa City the daughter of Alvin E. and Mable C. (Coon) Marshall. She attended country school near Riverside in her youth, and later Lone Tree High School. She was united in marriage to Clifford Bell on December 8, 1948, in Iowa City. For a few years the couple farmed near Ainsworth, Iowa before moving to their farm near Iowa City in 1953 which they still own. She had worked at the Iowa City Randall's Grocery Store and was the "Avon Lady" for a number of years. But most of all she loved being on the farm, her gardens, flowers, the neighborhood clubs, dancing with her husband in the dance halls of eastern Iowa, and her family! Ramona lived to love and care for her husband, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, she was in her glory with them.
Survivors are name sin the full obituary @ www.gayandciha.com.
She was preceded in death by her parents, brothers, Maynard, Bernard "Bud", and Harold Marshall; and sisters, Wilma Garwood, and Dorothy Evans.
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Funeral services will be held at 10:30 am Friday, August 14, 2015, at the Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Iowa City, with burial to follow at Memory Gardens Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 pm Thursday at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service. In lieu of flowers a memorial fund has been established in Ramona's memory.
Ramona Lois Marshall was born December 11, 1929, in Iowa City the daughter of Alvin E. and Mable C. (Coon) Marshall. She attended country school near Riverside in her youth, and later Lone Tree High School. She was united in marriage to Clifford Bell on December 8, 1948, in Iowa City. For a few years the couple farmed near Ainsworth, Iowa before moving to their farm near Iowa City in 1953 which they still own. She had worked at the Iowa City Randall's Grocery Store and was the "Avon Lady" for a number of years. But most of all she loved being on the farm, her gardens, flowers, the neighborhood clubs, dancing with her husband in the dance halls of eastern Iowa, and her family! Ramona lived to love and care for her husband, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, she was in her glory with them.
Survivors are name sin the full obituary @ www.gayandciha.com.
She was preceded in death by her parents, brothers, Maynard, Bernard "Bud", and Harold Marshall; and sisters, Wilma Garwood, and Dorothy Evans.
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