Lyle R. Powell (2001)

POWELL, HILLIS, DALE, ACKELSON

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 12/15/2006 at 10:46:33

Winterset Madisonian
February 28, 2001

Lyle R. Powell, Nevada

Lyle Ruel Powell, 86, of Nevada, Iowa died of congestive heart failure Feb. 26, 2001, at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 3, at Collins Oak Park Chapel in Winterset with Pastor David Bovenmyer officiating. Visitation will be held Saturday, March 3 from 9 a.m. until time of service with the family present from noon until service time. Burial will be at Winterset Cemetery.

Lyle Powell was born Aug. 20, 1914 in Madison County to Lester Vernon and Arta Araminta (Hillis) Powell. He married Irma Rebecca Dale on Oct. 6, 1935 in Earlham. A resident of Madison County until 1955, he and his wife moved to Farnhamville for four years then to Zearing. In 1965 they moved to Huxley where he resided until entering the nursing home in Nevada. Lyle was a retired employee of the Huxley Co-op Telephone Company.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife and a daughter.

He is survived by five sons, Richard Powell and William Powell, both of Nevada, Larry Powell of Stone Mountain, Ga., Donald Powell of Slater and Theodore Powell of Huxley; a sister, Ethyl Ackelson of Chariton; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.