Nele Frances Gehringer 1904 - 1983

GEHRINGER, RYAN, KENNEDY, CHRISTIAN, WELCHER, MORRISON, ZAHON, BEENBLOSSOM, CREECH

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Date: 11/2/2007 at 07:12:28

The Burlington Hawkeye, Monday, January 31, 1983, page 11

Nelle Gehringer

Mrs. Nelle Gehringer, 79, 605 S. Starr, died in Burlington Medical Center at 2:20 a.m. Monday, Jan. 31.

She was born Jan. 22, 1904, to Frank and Mary Kennedy Ryan at Washington, Iowa; where she married I.J. Gehringer Dec. 31, 1928.

She graduated from William Penn College, Oskaloosa; taught at St. Marys, Iowa; and later worked at Lind's and Anderson's bakeries in Burlington. She was a member of St. Paul Catholic Church and the Alter and Rosary Society.

Surviving: The husband; two sons, David J., Green Rock, Ill., and Joseph F., Burlington; three daughters, Louise Christian, Williamston, Mich., Dorothy Welcher, Mt. Pleasant, and Geneva Morrison, Burlington; two brothers, John Ryan, Washington, and Lawrence Ryan, Ottumwa; four sisters, Bonnie Zahon, Harper Woods, Mich., Helen Beenblossom, Larned, Kan., Mrs. Verne Creech, Davenport, and Mary Louise Ryan, Washington; 18 grandchildren; and four grea-grandchildren.
Funeral: St. Paul Church at a time to be announced; Aspen Grove Cemetery.