Funeral services for Mary E. Purcell, 90, were held this afternoon at Nelson-Boylan Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. Tim Anderson officiating, and burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Red Oak, Montgomery County, Iowa.
She died Monday at Good Samaritan Center, where she had been a resident the past eight years. Death came after an extended illness.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Van Kirk, she was born June 8, 1881, at Champaign, Illinois, and was married in 1897 to Joseph Oliver Purcell, who died in 1948. She had lived in Illinois and Missouri before coming to Grant Township of this county, where she lived most of her life. She had also lived in California. She was a Methodist. Surviving are two sons, Max of Chandler, Texas, and Joe, Homeland, California; daughter, Elva Carlson, Red Oak; 21 grandchildren, 48 great-grandchildren, and 21 great-great-grandchildren; three sisters, Pearl Summers and Ruth Foster, both of, Esterville, Emmet County, Iowa and Alta Hilding of Red Oak, Emmet County, Iowa. Memorials have been suggested to either First Covenant Church or Red Oak Fire Department Rescue Unit.
Red Oak Express, Red Oak, Iowa, Thursday, May 14, 1981, page 2
Funeral services for Mary E. Purcell, 90, were held this afternoon at Nelson-Boylan Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. Tim Anderson officiating, and burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Red Oak, Montgomery County, Iowa.
She died Monday at Good Samaritan Center, where she had been a resident the past eight years. Death came after an extended illness.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Van Kirk, she was born June 8, 1881, at Champaign, Illinois, and was married in 1897 to Joseph Oliver Purcell, who died in 1948. She had lived in Illinois and Missouri before coming to Grant Township of this county, where she lived most of her life. She had also lived in California. She was a Methodist. Surviving are two sons, Max of Chandler, Texas, and Joe, Homeland, California; daughter, Elva Carlson, Red Oak; 21 grandchildren, 48 great-grandchildren, and 21 great-great-grandchildren; three sisters, Pearl Summers and Ruth Foster, both of, Esterville, Emmet County, Iowa and Alta Hilding of Red Oak, Emmet County, Iowa. Memorials have been suggested to either First Covenant Church or Red Oak Fire Department Rescue Unit.
Red Oak Express, Red Oak, Iowa, Thursday, May 14, 1981, page 2
Family Members
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William Charles Van Kirk Sr
1883–1960
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Ella VanKirk
1884–1891
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Alta Mamie VanKirk Jones HIlding
1887–1989
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Franklin A. Van Kirk
1889–1963
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Pearl Edna VanKirk Summers
1892–1994
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Arthur Ervin VanKirk
1893–1919
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Bertha Cecil VanKirk Ford
1894–1918
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Walter Lawrence VanKirk
1896–1995
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Ruth Irene VanKirk Cass Foster
1899–2002
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CPL Lester Dewey Purcell
1898–1918
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Elva Elvira Purcell Carlson
1900–1983
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Gladys Glee Purcell
1902–1907
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Joseph Bernard Purcell
1905–1984
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Russell Edward Purcell
1907–1968
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Thaddeus Raymond Purcell
1909–1956
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Vella Laureine Purcell Aronson
1912–1939
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Vera Mae Purcell McAdam
1914–1976
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Delbert Purcell
1916–1969
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Max Earl Purcell Sr
1918–1993
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