Jarrell, Nellie Farmer 1907-1988

FARMER, DEN HOOT, HOLMES, JARRELL, KORTE, RUCKMAN, DEMOSS, COWDEN

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 11/7/2008 at 09:38:39

Newton Daily News

NELLIE JARRELL

Nellie Farmer Jarrell, 80, of 304 E. 21st St. S., a former cafe operator in Monroe, died of complications following surgery Thursday afternoon, Jan. 14, at the Skiff Medical Center.

Funeral srvices will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the Wallace-Pence Funeral Home.

The Rev. John McKinstry, pastor of the Howard Street Christian Church in Colfax, will conduct services. Burial will be in the Silent City Cemetery in Monroe.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. Saturday. Visitation will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

Survivors are a son, Wendell R. Holmes of Newton; three daughters, Kathryn (Mrs. Elmer) Korte of Boone, Iona Ruckman of Colfax and Doris (Mrs. Marvin) DeMoss of Pleasantville; a step-son, Phil Jarrell of Webster City; 18 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; five step-grandchildren; six step-great-grandchildren; and three brothers and four sisters, all of Oregon.

She was preceded in death by her parents, first husband, Floyd Holmes, her second husband, Joseph Jarrell in 1980, a daughter, Clara R. Cowden, two grandsons, a geat-grandson and two brothers.

Mrs. Jarrell also had worked in Duncan's and Tyrell's cafes in Monroe.

The daughter of John W. and Clara Den Hoot Farmer, she was born May 10, 1907 in Washington Township in Jasper County.

She married to Floyd F. Holmes in 1924 and to Joseph B. Jarrell July 3, 1953 in Knoxville.

Mrs. Jarrell had lived in Knoxville, Pleasantville and Monroe before coming to Newton.