LANCELOT, Melvina C. 1911-1962

LANCELOT, NAGL, STANGL, JONES, MCLAUGHLIN

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 1/15/2013 at 01:03:12

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Wednesday, September 17, 1962]

Funeral services for Mrs. W.D. (Don) Lancelot, 51, of 234 Derbyshire Rd., will be conducted by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John M. Fischer at 10 a.m. Tuesday in St. Edward's Catholic Church. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery.

A combined parish and Rosary Society rosary will be recited at 9 p.m. Monday at O'Keefe & Towne Funeral Home.

Mrs. Lancelot was killed in a traffic accident Saturday night at the entrance to Black Hawk Village on Hwy. 218 at Cedar Falls.

The former Melvina C. Nagl, she was born April 25, 1911, at Carroll, the daughter of Michael M. and Mary Stangl Nagl. She was married to Mr. Lancelot, now a member of the display advertising staff of the Waterloo Daily Courier, on Oct. 29, 1935 at Carroll and the family came to Waterloo in 1944 from Sioux City. Mrs. Lancelot was a member of St. Edward's Catholic Church, it's Rosary Society, St. Francis Hospital Auxiliary and the Waterloo Garden Club.

She was preceded in death by her parents, and one brother, Linus J., killed during World War II.
Survivors, in addition to her husband, are one son, Jerold W. Lancelot of Des Moines; two grandchildren; two brothers, Orlando M. and Alvin Nagl, both of Las Vegas, Nev.; and two sisters, Mrs. J.E. McLaughlin of Oelwein and Mrs. Herb Jones of Tujunga, Calif.