Lulu M. Robbins 1905-1992

ROBBINS, ATKINSON, GRANDSTAFF, LOGAN, STRICKLER, SABIN, KOPECKY, ODELL, BOLSINGER, CORNWELL, HANSEL, STAEBLER, COLE, HORTZMAN, DAVIS, RADABAUGH

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Date: 4/10/2007 at 05:50:01

GREELEY. Lulu M. Robbins,87, died Tuesday morning in Delaware County Memorial Hospital, Manchester, after a long illness. Services: 11 a.m. Thursday, Greeley United Methodist Church. Burial: Grant View Cemetery. Friends may call after 2 p.m. today at Leonard-Vernon Funeral Home, Edgewood, and after 10 a.m. Thursday at the church.

Survivors include six daughters, Dorothy Atkinson of Waterville, Minn., Mary Lou Grandstaff of Waterloo, Florence Logan of Iowa City, Nancy Strickler of Longview, Texas, Norma Sabin of Cedar Rapids and Ruth Kopecky of Monticello; a son, Leonard O'dell of Greeley; three brothers, Elmer Bolsinger of Colesburg, Glenn Bolsinger of Greeley and Lorence Bolsinger of Elkader; and four sisters, Helen Cornwell of Greeley, Irene Hansel and Blanche Staebler, both of Colesburg, and Gladys Cole of Oklahoma.

Also surviving are 29 grandchildren, 36 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two husbands; a son, Clayton O'dell, on May 20, 1982; three grandchildren, Lee Logan and two in infancy; a great-grandchild in infancy; a brother, Clarence Bolsinger; and three sisters, Lizzie Hortzman, Florence Davis and Addie Radabaugh.

Born July 29, 1905, near Colesburg, a daughter of Frank and Alta Cole Bolsinger, she married Pat O'dell on July 2, 1923, in Dubuque. He died May 26, 1949. The couple farmed in Allamakee and Delaware counties. On Jan. 23, 1952, she married Ralph Robbins in Colesburg. He died June 3, 1988. They farmed north of Greeley until retiring in 1982.

~Cedar Rapids Gazette, Oct 28, 1992