Mable P. Neel
Memorial services for Mable Neel, 93, of Des
Moines, formerly of Aurelia will be Saturday, June 16, 2007 at 10:30
A.M. at the First United Methodist Church in Aurelia. There will be no
visitation. Inurnment will be in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Aurelia,
Iowa. The Redig Funeral Home of Aurelia is in charges of services.
Born on Christmas Day in 1913, in Stockton,
California, she moved with family in the 1930’s to South Dakota, where
she graduated high school in Plankinton, South Dakota. Still in the
1930’s, being the oldest of the eight children, she moved to Ruthven,
Iowa, to help raise her four brothers and three sisters.
Mable married Jack Mannina on October 13,
1940, and from that marriage had a daughter Josephine, born November 4,
1942, and a son John born May 24, 1949.
After a divorce Mable raised the two
children in Spencer, Iowa, until her marriage with Bart Neel, on October
18, 1962, when she moved with her son to Aurelia, Iowa, where she lived
until just a couple years ago. For health reasons she moved to live with
her daughter Josephine, in Des Moines until her passing away on June 11th,
2007 at the Sunny View Care Center in Ankeny surrounded by family.
Mable lived a full life with her two
children and beloved husband Bart. She enjoyed sewing, fishing at the
lakes, golf, dancing to the old time music, and playing cards and
dominos with friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents,
August and Lydia (Neugebauer) Riecke, her husband Bart on October 9,
2001, and three brothers, Ralph, Raymond, and Stewart.
Surviving is her daughter, Josephine Brouwer
of Des Moines, and her son John and his wife Sharon Neel of Riverton,
Wyoming. Also surviving is her grandson Jason and wife Jessica Brouwer,
of Johnston, Iowa, grandson Brad Neel, of Fort Collins, Colorado,
granddaughter Sarah and her husband Michael Hutchison and their son
Declan Bradley Hutchison, born August, 6, 2006, which recently she did
get to hold and spoil, of Riverton, Wyoming. Also surviving are her
brother Gilson Riecke of Ruthven, Iowa, and three sisters, Ruth Olson of
Arnolds Park, Iowa, Ines Weekly of Dillon, Montana, and Lilly Costello
of Pennsylvania, and nieces and nephews and friends.
