COUNSELL, Mabel 1891-1971

COUNSELL, BOWER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 11/27/2013 at 20:39:39

MABEL COUNSELL, 80,
DIED HERE SATURDAY

Funeral services for a native of the Osage community, Miss Mabel Counsell, 80, were held on Monday. Miss Counsell died on Saturday at Mitchell County Memorial hospital.

Rev. R. Smith, pastor of the United Methodist church in Osage, was in charge of the services at the Champion Funeral Home, and burial was in the Osage Cemetery.

Mabel Counsell was born on March 18, 1891, in Burr Oak township, the daughter of Frank and Ida Bower Counsell. She attended the rural school in Burr Oak.

She is survived by her brother, Chester of Osage, and four nephews: Kenneth and Gene of Osage, Virgil of Independence, Missouri, and Merlyn of Berkeley, California.

Preceding her in death were her parents and one brother, Harry E. Counsell.

Source: Mitchell County Press, April 22, 1971