PRULL, Winola Margaret 1916-2001

PRULL, LEVALLEY, WAGNER, ABBAS, BURKLE, DAVISSON, PRULL, OWEN

Posted By: Jeffrey R. Phillips (email)
Date: 2/11/2004 at 22:51:02

Winola Prull
By: 08/15/2001

July 30, 1916-Aug. 12, 2001

IOWA FALLS-Winola Margaret Prull, 85, of Iowa Falls, died Sunday, Aug. 12, 2001, at Franklin General Nursing Facility in Hampton. Services will be Thursday, Aug. 16, at the United Methodist Church in Geneva, with burial in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Ackley. Rev. Jerry Hoff will officiate. Visitation will be Wednesday, Aug. 15, from 4-7 p.m. at Sietsema Funeral Home in Ackley.

Winola was born July 30, 1916, in Wentworth, Wis., to John and Ethel LeValley Wagner. She graduated from Geneva High School in 1934 and from Ellsworth College and Iowa State Normal School. She taught in one-room rural schools. On May 25, 1938, she married Clifford Prull at the United Methodist Church in Ackley. She was an accomplished musician playing a variety of instruments including the organ and the harp, and she had composed over 20 songs. Winola raised orchids, enjoyed gardening, ceramics, genealogy and wrote poetry. She was church organist for over 30 years, was choir director, and taught Sunday School at the Geneva Methodist Church. She helped organize the Geneva Women's Club and was a past president of the United Methodist Women of the church.

She is survived by three daughters, Sharon Abbas and husband, Lyle, of Clear Lake, Gloria Burkle and husband, Stan, of Nashua, and Aleyna Davisson and husband, Larry, of DeSota; a son, Dale Prull and friend, Janice Owen, of San Jose, Calif.; 11 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and a brother, Robert Wagner, of Duluth, Minn. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband in 1991; two brothers, Ted and John Wagner.

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