Ethel Yerington (1901-1997)

YERINGTON, LOVELL, MORGAN, ANDERSON, STIFF, MERRILL, HAMIEL, WITMER, BECKER, SLETTEN, WILLIAMS, MUNDELL, KENNEY, LENDT, BAKER, ACKLEY, EMERSON, ABELS, DAY

Posted By: Beverly Witmer (email)
Date: 2/12/2013 at 18:06:44

Tipton Conservative, Tipton, Iowa – November, 1997.

Ethel Yerington

ROCHESTER – Ethel Lovell Yerington, 96, of Route 3, Tipton, died Sunday, Nov. 23, 1997, at the Crestview Care Center in West Branch, following an extended illness.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, at the Fry Funeral Home in Tipton. The Rev. Norman Anderson will officiate. Sharon Stiff will be organist. Pallbearers will be Warren Lovell, Roger Lovell, David Lovell, Frankie Lovell, Bruce Lovell, and Dennis Lovell. Burial will be at the Mount Zion Cemetery in rural Tipton.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, at the funeral home.

Mrs. Yerington was born March 1, 1901, in Cedar County, a daughter of William Morgan and Rosa Merrill. She was educated in rural Cedar County school. Her marriage to George Wilson Lovell took place on Sept. 20 1920, in Iowa City. She married Archie Yerington on June 1, 1961, in Tipton.

She was a homemaker, and had worked as a telephone operator in Rochester, for 20 years. She was of the Methodist faith.

Survivors include one son, William J. Lovell of rural Rochester; two stepsons, Donald Yerington of Memphis, Mo., and Charles “Chuck” Yerington of Davenport; one stepdaughter, Mrs. Keith (Janet) Hamiel of Tipton; grandchildren, Judy Becker of Wilton, Warren and Roger Lovell of Muscatine, Bruce Lovell of Tipton, Dennis Lovell of West Branch, Jeanette Sletten of Caracus, Venzuela, Joanne Williams and Frankie Lovell of Rochester; David Lovell of Atalissa, Jayne Mundell of West Branch, and Julyne Kenney of Cortland, Ill.; 24 great-grandchildren, 17 great-great-grandchildren, 23 step-grandchildren, 41 step-great-grandchildren, and five step-great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by both husbands, George in 1951, and Archie in 1970, two sons, Frank and Kenneth Lovell; a daughter-in-law, Mamie Lovell, four sisters, Genevieve Lendt, Gladys Morgan, Mildred Baker and Millie Ackley, a brother, Fay Morgan, two great-grandchildren, Kevin and Jeri Lovell, two stepdaughters, Helen Lovell Emerson and Mildred Witmer, three stepsons, Russell “Bud” Lovell, Howard and Harry Yerington, one great-great-grandchild, Mason Abels, and two step-grandchildren, Gerri Day and Mary Jane Lovell.