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Marianna
D. Schell Marianna
D. Schell, 81, of 1300 W 9th St. S. died Saturday, Dec. 12, at University
Hospitals and
Clinics in Iowa
City. Memorial
services will be Tuesday at the First Presbyterian Church in Newton with the
Rev. Stephen Mathison-Bowie officiating. The body has been cremated. Burial will
be at Newton Union Cemetery at a later date. Wallace Family Funeral Home in
Newton is handling arrangements. The family will greet friends
immediately following the services at the church.
Memorials will be accepted to the First Presbyterian Church or
the Park Centre Good Samaritan Fund and may be left at the church the day of the
service or at the funeral home. The
daughter of Forrest A. (Dick) and Hazel Stockberger Dunn, she was born July 22,
1920, in Newton. She graduated from Newton Senior High School in 1938 and
attended Iowa State University. On
June 25, 1974, she married Paul F. Schell in Newton. She worked as a home
economist for the Maytag Company in the product evaluation department and as an
interior decorator for Switzer Furniture Store in Newton. Mrs.
Schell was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Newton Country Club, the
Jasper County Arts Council, charter member of the Thursday Club and past
president of the Skiff Hospital Auxiliary. She was an artist, enjoyed listening
to the "Big Band Era" music, enjoyed needle point and counted
cross-stitch and played golf and bridge. Survivors
include her husband, two sons, David D. Kling of Overland Park, Kan., and
Timothy G. Kling and fiancé Candice Elliott of Kitty Hawk, N.C., a son-in-law,
Richard R. Whittlesey and wife Cathy of Bettendorf, eight grandchildren, two
great-grandchildren, a sister and brother-in-law, Helen Jane and William J.
Cavey of Appleton, Wash. and close family friend, John C. Daehler of Newton. She
was preceded in death by her parents, twin sons in infancy, a daughter and a
daughter-in-law. Newton Daily News, Newton, IA, December 17, 2001. |
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