CLIFFORD, Mary Belle 1915-1999

CLIFFORD, NAUMAN, ELING

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 11/13/2010 at 14:13:17

MARY BELLE CLIFFORD

NORA SPRINGS, IOWA - Mary Belle Clifford, 84, of Nora Springs, died Sunday (Oct. 31, 1999) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City.

Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Nora Springs Christian Church, with the Rev. Greg Lugn officiating. Burial will be in the Rock Grove Cemetery, Nora Springs.

Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. today at the Sheckler Colonial Chapel, 114 N. Hawkeye Ave., Nora Springs, and one hour prior to service time on Wednesday at the church.

Mary Belle Clifford was born on Jan. 11, 1915, the daughter of Max and Lydia (Eling) Nauman. She attended and received her education in the rural country schools near Rockford.

She was united in marriage to Carroll Clifford in 1936, in Forest City. He preceded her in death in 1982. During her life she did babysitting and house cleaning for various families in the Nora Springs area.

She enjoyed music and talking to her friends on the phone, but her great love and enjoyment was being a devoted wife and mother, as her family and friends were important to her.

She was a member of the Nora Springs Christian Church.

Left to cherish her memory is her son, Curtis Clifford and his wife, Doris, of Nora Springs; four grandchildren, Cory Clifford of Nora Springs, Colette Hall and her husband, Mike, of Charles City, Christi Meyer and her husband, Charles, of Charles City and Connie (Conrad) Clifford of Nora Springs; three great-grandchildren, Nicole and Lance Ubben and Madison Meyer; one stepgreat-grandson, Dylan Hall; three sisters, Marguerite McGill, of Windom, Minn., Emma White, of St. Ansgar, and Maxine Miller and her husband, Richard, of LeClaire; as well as other relatives and friends.

Besides her husband, she was also preceded in death by her parents; five brothers, Carl, Walter, Max, Arthur and Bernard Nauman; three sisters, Clara Dow, Matilda Freese and Anna Meyerann; and one half sister, Hilda Ademan.

Sheckler Colonial Chapel, (515) 749-2210.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, Nov. 2, 1999]