Paul, Mary E. 1943-1980

PAUL, SIMBRO, SANCHEZ, WETTERLING, SHINN, HICKS, DEITRICK

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 3/16/2014 at 16:22:08

The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register
April 24, 1980

RITES HELD FOR
MARY E. PAUL

Mary E. Paul, 36, of Grinnell died Tuesday, April 15, at University Hospitals in Iowa City.

Funeral services were conducted at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the First Friends Church here, with the Rev. Del Coppinger of Newton officiating. Burial was at the Dunreath Cemetery south of Monroe, with the Walters-Coburn Funeral Home of Monroe in charge of arrangements.

She was born Nov. 27, 1943, at Prairie City and moved to the Rock Creek area in 1962. She attended rural schools and was a 1962 graduate of Grinnell High School. She was married to Samuel Sanchez and after his death, Ronald A. Paul. She was employed at the Longhorn and Maid-Rite restaurants here and had lived in Grinnell for the past five years with her children.

Mrs. Paul was a member of the First Friends Church and the Bowladrome league.

Survivors include her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Simbro of Grinnell; her four children, Maria Elainia Sanchez and James Dean, Dawne Lea and Sherri Lynn Paul, all at home; three brothers, the Rev. Ronald Simbro of Pacific, Mo., Jimmie D. Simbro of Grinnell and Charles D. Simbro of Baldwin, Wis.; a sister, Mrs. Raymond (Sharon) Wetterling of Cadott, Wis.; three half-sisters, Mrs. Junior (Betty) Shinn of Knoxville, Mrs. Charles (Arlene) Hicks of Newton and Mrs. Levi (Viola) Deitrick of Monroe; and three half-brothers, Raymond Simbro of Des Moines, Eugene Simbro of Knoxville and Burton Simbro of Monroe. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Samuel Sanchez; a half-brother, LeRoy Simbro; and her grandparents.