Mabel A. Webb
Funeral services for
Mabel A. Webb, 91, of Aurelia, formerly of Cherokee, will be 10:30 A.M.
Friday, December 9, 2005, at the First United Methodist Church in
Aurelia with Pastor Harold Werley officiating. Pastor Ron Johannsen of
Silver Creek Methodist Church in Galva will also officiate. Burial will
be in the Oakland Cemetery at Sac City. Visitation will be Thursday
from 2:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M., with the family being present from 6:00 to
8:00, at the Redig Funeral Home in Aurelia. A memorial fund has been
established.
Mabel died Monday,
December 5, 2005, at the Sioux Valley Regional Medical Center in
Cherokee, Iowa.
Mabel Anna Ellwanger
was born September 10, 1914, the daughter of Fred and Carrie (Sauter)
Ellwanger on the family farm at rural Lake View, Iowa. She graduated
from the Lakeview High School. On December 19, 1933 Mabel married
Forrest Webb. They farmed in the Galva area. Forrest died December 25,
1956. Mabel moved to Cherokee in the 60’s where she worked for more
than 20 years at the Mental Health Institute. She was a resident at the
Beck in Cherokee for one year, and had made her home at the Sunset Knoll
Retirement Home in Aurelia for the last 15 months.
Mabel enjoyed
traveling; she visited all the states except Hawaii. She loved her
family and made efforts to visit her children as often as possible. She
enjoyed baking cookies, crocheting afghans for her family, and she was
an avid reader of stories of people and history of Iowa.
Preceding Mabel in
death were her parents, her husband Forrest, one son, Duane Webb, two
brothers, Fred and Everett Ellwanger, and one sister, Evelyn Powell.
Survivors include her
children, Forrest Webb, Jr., of Gulf Breeze, FL, Donald and his wife
Frances Webb of New Orleans, LA, Sandra and her husband Walter Shepherd
of New Orleans, LA, Orlyn and his wife Nancy Webb of Aurelia, IA,
daughter-in-law Gail and her husband Martin Rummel of Wabeno, WI, 13
grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren, four sisters, Alice and her
husband Willard Garrels of Newell, IA, Lucille Schultz of Buffalo, MN,
June Bowers of Storm Lake, IA, and Joyce and her husband Tom Patton of
Perry, IA, and many nieces and nephews and other relatives and friends.
