DIEHL, Marvel 1916-2004

DIEHL, ALBRIGHT, PENCE

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 9/11/2016 at 11:59:43

Marvel Diehl, 90, of Cedar Falls, formerly of Grundy Center, died April 19 at the Western Home in Cedar Falls. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 23, at the First Presbyterian Church in Grundy Center. Burial will follow in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Grundy enter. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m., with the family greeting friends from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 22, at Engelkes-Abels Funeral Home in Grundy Center. A memorial fund has been established.

Marvel was born July 16, 1916, in Grundy Center, the daughter of Joseph Raymond and Mildred (Pence) Albright. She graduated from the Grundy Center High School. On June 16, 1936, she was united in marriage to Harold Ward Diehl in Grundy Center. Marvel retired in 1976 and moved to Forsythe, MO. She returned to Waterloo in 1994 and later moved to the Western Home in 2001.

Survivors include her two daughters: Linda VanHeiden of Iowa Falls; and Sharon Smith of Waterloo; two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Harold; a brother Edgar Albright; and a sister, DeLoris Albright.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 22 April 2004, pg 3