Neighbors, Elsie Marie 1918-1997

NEIGHBORS, GARRETT, MCCASLEN, WILSON

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 12/1/2011 at 13:51:54

The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register; Nov. 17, 1997

ELSIE NEIGHBORS

Elsie Marie Neighbors, 78, of Grinnell died Tuesday, Nov. 11, at her home.

Funeral services were conducted Friday at the Smith Funeral Home, with the Rev. Richard Milliken of the Grinnell Christian Church officiating. Pallbearers were Don, Gordon, Steve and Gabe Neighbors and Leon and Clair Wilson. Burial was in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Jasper County.

She was the daughter of Arthur and Alice Garrett McCaslen and was born Nov. 23, 1918, in Jasper County. Her family lived on several farms and moved to Gilman in 1929. They later moved to Marshalltown and then to the Kellogg area before moving to Grinnell in 1933. She attended high school in Kellogg and Grinnell and was a 1935 graduate of Grinnell High School. She attended college at Cedar Falls and graduated from Drake University in 1960.

She was married to Albert Lee Neighbors Jan. 29, 1938, in Cedar Falls. She was a resident of Grinnell for over 60 years and taught in Grinnell Elementary schools.

Surviving are her husband; two sons, Don of Front Royal, Va., and Gordon of Grinnell; one sister, Imo Dell Wilson of Grinnell; seven grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Memorials may be made to the Dialysis Care Unit at Grinnell Regional Medical Center.