TOPEL, Deloris Mae (adopted= Malli) Kolsrud 1937 - 2017

TOPEL, KOLSRUD, MALLI, THOMPSON, MATTIE, DIERSEN

Posted By: Cindy Maust Smith (email)
Date: 8/18/2020 at 17:55:22

The Standard Newspaper, July 11, 2017, Waukon, Iowa

Deloris M. Topel, 80, of Waukon died Thursday, July 6, 2017 at Good Samaritan Center in Waukon. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, July 18 at 1 p.m. at Martin Funeral Home in Waukon with Pastor Ken Kimball officiating. Burial will be at Old East Paint Creek Cemetery, rural Waterville. Friends may call from 11 a.m. until time of services Tuesday at the funeral home.

Deloris Mae Topel was born April 16, 1937 in Waterloo, the daughter of Lois Thompson. She lived with her adopted parents, George and Ethel (Mattie) Malli, in Decorah and attended Decorah area schools. Deloris worked at the Good Samaritan Center in Waukon as a nurse's aide.

June 6, 1954, she married Howard Kolsrud at First Lutheran Church in Decorah. They later divorced. Deloris continued her education at NICC in Calmar, where she received her nursing degree in 1981. Deloris then went to work as a LPN at the Good Samaritan Center in Postville before she retired. May 28, 1988, she married Donald Topel at Old East Paint Creek Lutheran Church in rural Waterville.

Deloris was a member of Old East Paint Creek Lutheran Church. She enjoyed knitting, crocheting, working with ceramics and going for drives with Donald throughout the countryside. She also enjoyed spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren.

Survivors include her husband, Donald Topel of Waukon; her children: Roger (Donna) Kolsrud of Waukon, Dorothy Diersen of St. Olaf and Lyle Kolsrud of Waukon; eight grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

She is preceded in death by her mother, her adopted parents; two sons, Leland Ray Kolsrud and Wayne Steven Kolsrud; and a grandson, Thomas Larkin.

Casketbearers are Ross, Amanda, Austin, Zachery, Gary and Ashton Kolsrud, Fern and Noah Diersen, and Wayne Topel.