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Cedar Valley Times;
Shellsburg--
Frances C. Albert Donels
Frances C. Albert Donels, 80, died Saturday, Sept 4, 1999 in Mercy Medical Center, Cedar Rapids following an extended illness. Services: 10:30 am, Tuesday, OakGrove Christian Church by the Rev. Larry Rodgers, Burial: Oakwood Cemetery. Friends may call at Phillips Funeral Home, Vinton.
Survivors include five sons and four daughters-in-law, Richard and Rebecca, Stanley and Donna, Dennis and Mary Ann, Dean and Dwayne and Yvonne, all of Cedar Rapids; her daughter and son-in-law, Joan and Robert Jewell of Duncan, S.C.; 20 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; her brother and sister-in-law, George and Janice Albert of Independence; and three sisters, Edna Schneeman of Independence, Irene Geiger of Vinton and Grace Behrends of Marshalltown; and serveral nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Leon, who died Sept 24, 1979; two sisters, Marie Gill and Dorothy Walker, two infant brothers; two brothers, Milo and LaVern Albert; and a granddaughter, Heidi Donels.
Born in LaPorte City, she was the daughter of John and Cora(Loveless)Albert. On Jan 29, 1938, she married Leon Ardell Donels in Vinton, and the couple farmed north of Shellsburg all of their married life. She was a former member of the Farm Bureau... After Leon's death, Frances moved to Shellsburg and lived there until the last months of her illness when she made her home with her son, Richard and his wife.
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