Grove, Marion Lucille Schnell Woolery (1907-1983)

GROVE, SCHNELL, WHITE, WOOLERY, RAU, MITCHELL

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 3/15/2015 at 16:58:51

Daily Freeman Journal, Thursday, January 6, 1983

Mrs. Lucille Grove, 75, longtime Webster City resident, died Wednesday evening at Crestview Manor where she had resided the past six years.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the First Baptist church with the Rev. Stuart Brightwell officiating and with burial in Graceland cemetery.

Friends may call at the Foster Funeral home from 7:30 this evening until 10 a.m. when the casket will be taken to the church.

Marion Lucille Schnell, daughter of Henry Albert and Mary Etta White Schnell, was born May 26, 1907 at Webster City where she was reared and educated.

She was married May 15, 1932 at Webster City to Claude E. Woolery, and the couple resided in Webster City. She was employed for 40 years by the Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. until her retirement.

She was preceded in death by her husband June 28, 1953.

She was united in marriage in the fall of 1954 to Lee C. Grove, and the couple continued to reside in this city. Mr. Grove died Jan. 1, 1966.

She is survived by one son, Gary L. Woolery of Webster City; a stepson and a stepdaughter, Don Grove of Fort Dodge and Lois Rau of Milwaukee, Wis.; one grandson, Steven Woolery of Webster City, and two step-grandchildren, Leslie Mitchell and Michael Grove, both of Fort Dodge. Also surviving are several nieces and nephews.

In addition to her husbands, she was preceded in death by a stepdaughter; her parents; one brother, Truman Schnell, and one brother and one sister who died in infancy.

She was a member of the First Baptist church and the Rebekah lodge.

The family suggest that memorial contributions be made to the American Catholic Society.