Mabel Fern Persels McKean 1899-1984

MCKEAN, PERSELS, COMBS, KUHN STONER, OCONNELL, NEBERGALL, VOSS

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 5/10/2015 at 22:45:04

Mabel F. McKean
Estherville – Services for Mrs. Mabel F. [Fern] McKean, 85, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the First Presbyterian Church in Armstrong with the Rev. John Bowe of the First Presbyterian Church of Estherville officiating. Interment will be in the Armstrong Grove Cemetery. She died Sunday, Sept. 23, 1984 at Rosewood Manor, Estherville.

Friends may call at the Henry and Olson Funeral Home in Estherville after 4 p.m. Tuesday and at the First Presbyterian Church in Armstrong after 12 p.m. Wednesday.

Mabel F. Persels was born May 31, 1899 in Clarke County the daughter of Howard N. [Nesl] and Hattie B. [Birdella] (Combs) Persels. She received her education in the Clarke County schools and Drake University in Des Moines. She taught school in Maple Hill in 1920 and 1921 before moving back to Clarke County to teach in the Murray schools in 1922 and 1923.

On March 26, 1924 she married Raymond McKean in Murray. The couple moved back to the Maple Hill area. They moved to Armstrong in 1972, where Mr. McKean died on March 29, 1983.

She was active in church and community affairs and also a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Armstrong, where she was a member of the UPW and taught Sunday School. She was also active in 4-H, the Farm Bureau Women, Republican committees, TB and various respiratory disease organizations.

Survivors include one son, Raymond McKean of Marengo; three daughters, Mrs. James (Fern) Kuhn, Pomona, Calif., Mrs. Ivan (Doris) Stoner, Des Moines and Mrs. John (Miriam) O’Connell, Sycamore, Ill.; 16 grandchildren, five great-grandchildren; three brothers, Ernest and Kenneth Persels, Osceola and Floyd Persels, Creston; two sisters, Mrs. Guy (Bernice) Nebergall, and Mrs. Ray (Marjorie) Voss, both of Des Moines.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband and one grandson. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, September 24, 1984)