Nellie Ruth (Porter) Parker (2000)
BATES, BROMMEL, GOODELL, HAGAN, LEGGETT, PARKER, PORTER, SEIBEL
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 11/11/2006 at 08:44:00
The Bismarck Tribune
Thursday, November 2, 2000Nellie Parker, 83, St. Charles, Iowa, died Oct. 30, 2000, at her home. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Calvary Baptist Church, St. Charles, with burial in the St. Charles Cemetery.
She is survived by her son, Dean, Truro, Iowa; her daughter, Judie Seibel, Bismarck; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. (Kale Funeral Home, Truro, Iowa)
________________________Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, November 8, 2000Nellie Ruth Parker, 83, of St. Charles died of cancer Oct. 30, 2000, at her home.
Funeral services were held Friday, Nov. 3, at Calvary Baptist Church in St. Charles with Pastors Rob Porter and George Neal officiating. Burial was at St. Charles cemetery.
Nellie Parker was born Oct. 28, 1917, to Samuel Merrill and Sarah (Leggett) Porter of rural Truro. She attended rural school, graduating from Truro High School in 1934. On March 20, 1936, she married Wesley Ward Parker in Des Moines. A homemaker, Nellie lived the majority of her life in Madison County, with 56 years spent on the family farm north of Truro. She attended Calvary Bible Church in Osceola.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, two sisters, and four brothers.
She is survived by a son, Dean Parker (wife Mary Lou) of Truro; a daughter, Judie Seibel (husband Kirby) of Bismarck, N.D.; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements were handled by Kale Funeral Homes in Osceola and Truro.
________________________The Osceola Sentinel Tribune
Osceola, Iowa
Thursday, November 9, 2000
Page 2, Column 1NELLIE RUTH PARKER
Nellie Ruth Parker, daughter of Samuel Merrill and Sarah Leggett Porter, was born Oct. 28, 1917, on a farm northwest of Truro and died Oct. 30, 2000, at her home in St. Charles. She was 83.
She attended rural schools until she was in the fifth grade when she attended Truro schools and graduated from Truro High School in 1934.
She married Wesley Ward Parker on March 20, 1936, in Des Moines and the couple became the parents of two children, Dean and Judie.
Mrs. Parker a homemaker, lived most of her life in Madison County. She lived on the family farm north of Truro for 56 years.
She attended the Calvary Bible Church in Osceola.
Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Ward, in February 2000; two sisters, Rena Goodell and Ethel Bates and four brothers, Claude, Ralph, Fon and Merrill Porter.
Mrs. Parker is survived by a son, Dean Parker and his wife, Mary Lou Parker, of Truro; a daughter, Judie Seibel and her husband, Kirby Seibel, of Bismarck, N.D.; six grandchildren, Christy Brommel of Indianola, Nancy Hagan of Truro, Rachael Parker of Iowa City, Lance Seibel of Wilton, N.D., Cory Seibel of Grand Forks, N.D. and Nathan Seibel of St. Paul, Minn.; three great-grandchildren; other relatives and friends.
Funeral services for Mrs. Parker were Nov. 3 at Calvary Bible Church in St. Charles, Pastors Rob Porter and George Neal officiating. Laurie McKinney, pianist, accompanied Cory and Nathan Seibel as they sang He the Pearly Gates Will Open and Saved By Grace and the congregation as the sang All the Way My Savior Leads Me.
Casket bearers were Mark Brommel, Todd Hagan, Lance Seibel, Cory Seibel, Nathan Seibel and Tim Porter. Interment was in the St. Charles Cemetery. Arrangements were by Kale Funeral Home Osceola – Truro.
Memorials may be made to Middle River Hospice in Winterset.
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