Van Arkel, Mary L. 1900-1986

VAN ARKEL, INGERSOLL, TINNES, KNOTTNERUS, LEE, WHITE, MILLER, WAGGONER

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Date: 5/14/2005 at 19:06:30

Newton (IA) Daily News, Tuesday, February 4, 1986

Mary Van Arkel

Funeral services for Mrs. Elmer (Mary L.) Van Arkel, 85, of 308 E. 19th St. No. a resident of Newton since 1936, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5, at the First Christian Church.

The Rev. Raymond Barnett, pastor of the church will conduct services. Burial will be at the Newton Union Cemetery.

Friends may call after noon today at the Wallace-Pence Funeral Home. Visitation with the family will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions to the First Christian Church will be accepted.

She died Monday at the Skiff Medical Center.

Survivors are her husband; a son, Eldon of Iowa City; a daughter, Francine Ingersoll of Des Moines; four grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

Also surviving are a brother, Milo Tinnes of Webster; and three sisters, Nora Knottnerus of Ainsworth, Mildred Lee of Sigourney, and Mrs. Lawrence (Luella) White of Keosauqua.

She was preceded in death by her parents and first husband, Andrew C. Miller Jan. 13, 1923.

Mrs. Van Arkel, a member of the First Christian Church, had been employed at the Newton Manufacturing Company during World War II.

The daughter of Michael and Rusha Waggoner Tinnes, she was born March 16, 1900 in Talley Rand in Keokuk County, attended country schools and Bradley Horological School in Peoria, IL.

She was married April 11, 1925 in Keota.

Originally submitted on January 11, 1998 by
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