Clifford Belmont Neel (1997)

NEEL, MCMINDES, MCDONALD, KOVAC, SHIELDS

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 11/11/2006 at 18:26:38

Winterset Madisonian
July 9, 1997

Clifford B. Neel, Winterset

Clifford Belmont Neel, 66, of Winterset died of complications from cancer July 6, 1997 at the Madison County Memorial Hospital in Winterset. Memorial services are to be held at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, in Winterset, today, Wednesday, July 9, at 10:30 a.m. Father Ed Pfeffer will officiate. The body has been cremated.

He was born in Hillsdale, Okla., on April 11, 1931 to Charles H. and Nina (McMindes) Neel. He married Jeanette McDonald on November 20, 1954 in Placentia, Calif. He served in the Air Force during the Korean War. He was also a retired Day Supervisor for Unocal at a chemical company in Kenai, Alaska. He was a member of the Lions's Club, Knight's of Columbus and St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Winterset.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother.

Surviving relatives include his wife; four sons, Kevin Neel and wife Deborah of Providence, RI., Matthew Neel and wife Julye of Anchorage, Alaska, Scott Neel and wife Rosemary of Des Moines and Peter Neel and wife Sherry of Anchorage, Alaska; one daughter, Shannon Kovac and husband Marc of Nikiski, Alaska; one sister, Christine Shields of Myrtle Creek, Ore.; and ten grandchildren.

Memorials may be directed to the Middle River Hospice or Catholic charities in Des Moines.