Twyla Elaine Ellis Piggott Parsons 1926-1985

PARSONS, PIGGOTT, ELLIS, CURTIS, THOMPSON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 1/27/2013 at 22:30:02

Twyla Parsons
Spirit Lake – Services for Twyla Elaine Parsons, 58, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Christian Church in Estherville with the Rev. Robert Kunz officiating. Interment will be in East Side Cemetery. She died Friday, Jan. 11, 1985 at her home at rural Spirit Lake.

Friends may call at the Henry and Olson Funeral Home in Estherville after 2:30 p.m. Monday.

She was born Aug. 15, 1926 at Estherville, the daughter of Fred and Ruth (Curtis) Ellis. She attended Estherville Schools and was a graduate of Estherville High School. On Nov. 14, 1963, she was married to Leslie Parsons at Chula Vista, Calif. She moved to California where she lived until 1973 when the family moved back to Iowa where they resided at Spirit Lake and she worked for Berkley & Co. until the last year. She was a member of the Christian Church, Eastern Star and Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary.

Survivors include her husband Leslie, Spirit Lake; her mother, Mrs. Ruth Ellis, Spirit Lake; two sons Kenneth Piggott, Spirit Lake and Duane Parsons, Moville; one daughter, Mrs. Earl (Ruth) Thompson, Sturgis, Mich.; two grandchildren; two brothers: Francis Ellis, Emmetsburg and Duane Ellis, Spirit Lake.

She was preceded in death by her father. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, January 12, 1985)