Mabel Aleada McNear 1912- 1997

MCNEAR, GUNSOLLEY, ROSS

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/10/2014 at 20:27:52

18 December 1997

WHITING, Iowa — Mabel Aleada McNear, 85, of Whiting died Monday, Dec. 15, 1997, at the St. Joseph Hospital in Omaha, Neb.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Whiting Church of Christ, with Shawn Walden, minister, officiating. Burial will be in Whiting City Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the Pearson Funeral Home in Onawa, Iowa.

Mrs. McNear was born April 27, 1912, in rural Whiting, the daughter of Walter Charles and Minnie Mae (Gunsolley) Ross. She attended country school near Whiting.

She married Richard Robert McNear on Dec. 25, 1934, in Whiting. He died April 27, 1985, in Onawa. She was employed as a telephone operator in Whiting and as an aid at St. Vincent's Hospital in Sioux City. She was also a housecleaner for various families in the Whiting area.

She was a member of Whiting Church of Christ and the Royal Neighbors.

Survivors include two daughters and their husbands, Donna Jean and John Lee of Ogden, Utah and Mary Lou and Jerry Carritt of Onawa; a son, Richard of Storm Lake, Iowa; six grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; a great-great-grandchild; a sister, Mae Ricks of Springfield, Ore.; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by a brother, George.