Neel, Charles Albert (1872-1948)

NEEL, GLASS, SIMPSON, FARRALL, ENFIELD, GROVES, PIERCE, BUCHANAN

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 5/21/2015 at 09:39:26

Daily Freeman Journal, Monday, September 13, 1948

Charles Albert Neel, 76, of Cambridge, Iowa, former widely known Hamilton county resident, died Sunday at the Lutheran hospital in Des Moines following a week of illness.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the Methodist church in Cambridge and interment will be made in Graceland cemetery here with a short service at the grave at 3:15 p.m.

Charles Albert Neel, son of Geo. Samuel and Minerva Glass Neel, was born Feb. 5, 1872 in Marion county, Iowa, and came with his parents and an older brother and sister to Hamilton county in 1873. He grew to young manhood on a farm near where the village of Kamrar was later established. After his graduation from Highland Park business college in Des Moines he entered the lumber business at Kamrar with his father.

On March 28, 1893, he was united in marriage to Maud Simpson, daughter of Adam and Harriet Farrall Simpson, also early settlers of Hamilton county. About this time he took advantage of a good opportunity to operate independently and successfully engaged in the lumber and grain business until his health began to fail and he retired in 1939.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, John. Survivors include his wife and five children: Ransom A. Neel of Des Moines; George S. Neel of Chicago; Merville C. Neel of Minneapolis; Leonard F. Neel of Columbus Junction and Mrs. Galen (Wilma) Enfield of Cambridge. Also surviving are eleven grandchildren, several great-grandchildren; two brothers, Will of Gilmore City and Frank of Santa Fe, N.M., and four sisters, Mrs. Alexander Groves of Webster City; Mrs. F. B. Pierce of Englewood, Colo.; Mrs. Charles T. Simpson of Bridger, Mont., and Mrs. C. M. Buchanan of Orchard, Colo.

Charles Neel was a member of the Masonic order and also was an active member of the Cambridge Methodist church. A devoted husband and father, he was known as a good neighbor and a loyal friend.