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BROELL, Nellie Marguerite (Gill) 1912-1959

BROELL, GILL, CRAIG, CLOSSON

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 3/7/2013 at 16:19:22

[Waterloo Courier, Sunday, April 19, 1959, p2]

MRS. NELLIE M. BROELL

Funeral services for Mrs. Nellie Marguerite Broell, 46, of 213½ Riehl St., are pending at the O'Keefe and Towne Funeral Home.

Mrs. Broell died about 8:30 p.m. Friday night while visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. McDermott, 623 Courtland St. Death was attributed to a heart attack.

She was born October 28, 1912, in Waterloo, the daughter of James and Kathryn Craig Gill. She was married to Milton Closson in 1927 in Waterloo and they were later divorced.

She was married to Guthrie Broell in 1945* in Rockford, Ill., he preceded her in death in 1949.

Mrs. Broell was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church.

She is survied by one son, Robert Closson, of 229 Lincoln St., and by one daughter, Mrs. Donald Sturtz, 437 Reed St.; five grandchildren, and by her step-mother, Mrs. Alice Gill, of Maquoketa.

Also surviving are two half-brothers, John Gill of Delmar and Robert Gill, of 2100 Plymouth Ave., and five half-sisters: Mrs. Wesley Hammer, Decatur, Ill.; Mrs. Malcolm Butler, 1115 Black Hawk Rd.; Mrs. Lawrence Williams, Calif.; Mrs. Herman Bagus, Delmar, and Mrs. Melvin Remetch, 1900 Plymouth Ave.

She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, one sister and one half-sister.

* Guthrie E. Broell's obit says they were married August 20, 1944 at Rockford, Illinois
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[Waterloo Daily Courier, Monday, April 20, 1959]

Funeral services for Mrs. Nellie Broell, 45, of 213 ½ Riehl Street, who died Friday night, will be conducted at 9 am Tuesday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church. The Rev. Msgr. Duane Brady pastor will officiate. Burial will be in the Calvary Cemetery. There will be a parish Rosary at O'Keefe & Towne Funeral Home at 7:30 p.m.


 

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