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CUNNINGHAM, Helen Wilma (PRALL)

PRALL, CHENOWETH, CUNNINGHAM, SHEPHERD, GORSLINE, BENDLIN, WAUGH, LUKES

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 6/29/2016 at 22:21:44

Obituary ~ Helen Wilma (Prall) Cunningham
March 20, 1930 ~ July 26, 2002

Helen Wilma Cunningham, daughter of Wilmer Vere Prall and Helen Chenoweth Prall, was born March 20, 1930, in Des Moines and died July 26, 2002, at the Clarke County Hospital in Osceola. She was 72.

She spent her early years in Des Moines and attended East High School. She married Clifford Delmar Cunningham on Aug. 24, 1947. The couple became the parents of four children, Laura, Marcia, Jan and Connie.

Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham moved to Leon in 1966 where they owned and operated Elder Lane Manor from 1966 until 1974 and the Leon Care Center from 1974 to 1997. They moved to Spencer in 1981 and lived there 15 years before moving to Osceola in 1997.

Mrs. Cunningham was a member of the Business and Professional Women’s Organization in Leon. She had attended Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Leon and Trinity Lutheran Church in Spencer.

She liked to play bingo, and card games. She also liked collecting antiques, reading, watching old movies, shopping and traveling in the couple’s motor home. She was known for her wonderful sense of humor.

In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her sister, Marilyn Shephard; two brothers, Jerry Prall and Richard “Dick” Prall and her granddaughter, Jessica Lee Gorsline. Mrs. Cunningham is survived by her husband; four daughters, Laura Bendlin and her husband, Larry Bendlin, of Spencer, Marcia Waugh and her husband, Jerry Waugh, of Grundy Center, Jan Lukes and her husband, Ron Lukes, of Mason City and Connie Gorsline and her husband, Steve Gorsline, of Osceola; 13 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; an aunt, Clara Prall of Des Moines; as well as nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

A graveside service and interment of the cremains were held in the Leon Cemetery on July 30 for Mrs. Cunningham, the Rev. J.R. Wheeler of the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Osceola officiating.

Vocalist Gail Duerr sang the Lord’s Prayer. Honorary bearers were Larry Bendlin, Donnie Bendlin, Jerry Waugh, James Martin, Ron Lukes, Andy Lukes, Steve Gorsline and Danny Gorsline.

Kale Funeral Home of Osceola was in charge of arrangements.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, June of 2016


 

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