COLWELL, Lola Bell Keene

COLWELL, STILLE, REEL, WHITE, BAKER, KEENE, SUTTON, CARTER, THOMAS, MAYBERRY, DETLEF, BOYCE, HEER, HAROLD, WILCOX, BARBEE, HAWKINS, SCOLES

Posted By: Jaydene Buhler (email)
Date: 9/2/2006 at 09:55:13

Mills County Tribune
July 21, 1941

Funeral Services Held Sunday for Mrs. John Colwell

Longtime Resident Passed Away Friday Following a Brief Illness of Only One Week’s Duration

Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon in Raynor’s chapel for Mrs. John Colwell, 65, who passed away in the Edmondson hospital, Council Bluffs, Friday following an illness of but a week’s duration.

The service was conducted by Reverend J. F. Stille of Council Bluffs, a longtime friend, assisted J. S. Reel, pastor of the Glenwood Christian church. Music for the service was furnished by a male quartet composed of Ralph Mayberrry, Shirley Mayberry, Tom White and Garreid Baker, with Mrs. Tom White at the piano.

Lola Bell Keene, daughter of Dave and Ellen Keene, was born November 4, 1875, in Cass county, Michigan. When a small child she moved with her parents to Peoria, Illinois, where she resided 10 years after which she came with the family to Hastings where she spent several years. In 1896 she was united in marriage to John F. Colwell at Glenwood. They established their home in Silver City community, residing there five years after which they moved to near Glenwood and have since resided in this community.

She is survived by her husband, four sons, Arch of Council Bluffs, Bill of Mineola, and Harold and Bert of Glenwood; four grandchildren, Mrs. Minniellen Sutton, who is living at the family home north of Glenwood, and who was cared for by Mrs. Colwell since she was nine months of age; Betty, Jean and Carolyn Colwell; one great grandchild, Robert Lee Sutton, and one half sister, Mrs. Hiram Carter of California.

Mrs. Colwell was a women who revered God and God’s people, and who appreciated her neighbors. She loved her family and her home, and did all in her power to make it a happy home. The large floral offering and the large number who assembled to pay tribute to her memory at the funeral services bespoke the respect in which she was held by all who knew her.

The ladies in charge of the floral tributes were Lorraine Thomas, Mary Catherine Mayberry, Virginia Mayberry, Darlene Wilcox, Betty Detlef and Mary Boyce. The pallbearers were John Heer, Ora Harold, H. B. Wilcox, Charles Barbee, Frank Hawkins and Clarence Scoles. The body was laid to rest in the Glenwood cemetery.