DEAL, Lydia (nee Smolik) 1916-2009

SMOLIK, SEJKA, DEAL

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 10/6/2009 at 10:06:26

BOONE - Lydia Deal, 92, formerly of 113 Fremont St. in Boone, passed away Friday morning (Oct. 2, 2009) at the Boone County Hospital. She had been a resident at the Evangelical Free Church Home in Boone for the past three years.

She was born on Dec. 6, 1916, in Brainard, Nebraska, the daughter of Frank and Anna (Cejka) Smolik.

On May 28, 1960, she married Glen A Deal at Osage.

Lydia was a graduate of Little Cedar High School near Osage. In 1935, at the age of 18 she came to the Boone Biblical College in Boone where she taught school for 52 years. During that time she attended the University of Northern Iowa, where she received her bachelor's degree in education.

Lydia enjoyed gardening and tending to her flowers, was an avid reader and was a very generous and giving person, especially to children.

She was a member of the Boone Biblical Memorial Church where she taught Sunday school, and was politically active and supportive of the Republican Party.

Preceding her in death were her parents; husband Glen in February of 1983; four brothers, Ed, George, Ernest and Ray; and three sisters, Helen, Libby and Adeline.

Survivors include her stepson, Richard Deal of Ames; one brother, Duane Smolik, of San Jose, Calif.; and several nieces and nephews.

Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday Oct. 8, 2009 at the Boone Biblical Memorial Church in Boone with the Rev. Bruce Thomas officiating. Interment will be in Highland Memory Gardens in Des Moines.

Visitations will be held from 9 a.m. until time of services on Thursday at the church.

Those wishing to express their sympathies through a memorial may direct their gift to the Boone Biblical Ministries.

Online condolences may be expressed at www.starkwelin.com. Stark-Welin Funeral Directors, 609 Seventh St. in Boone, 515-432-4550.

[Published in the Mason City Globe Gazette online, 10/6/2009 -- www.globegazette.com]