Leila Mary (Menzel) Boelk (1896-1979)

MENZEL, BOELK, ALLEN, FINCHAM, TETT

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 9/29/2013 at 09:21:18

From unknown newspaper January 1979

Leila Mary Boelk

Leila Mary Boelk, daughter of Frank and Minnie Menzel, was born on a farm near McCallsburg, Iowa, July 21, 1896. She lived in the McCallsburg area until the time of her marriage to Frank H. Boelk. They lived on a farm near Fernald. To this union was born a daughter, Darlene, who is not Mrs. William Allen of Nevada. They lived near Fernald until 1930 and moved into town for a short time before moving to a farm near Nevada. They moved to Nevada in 1954 where she remained until the time of her death. Her husband, Frank, died in 1955.

She was a member of the Memorial Lutheran Church and the E.O.W. Club.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Frank and Minnie Menzel; her brothers, Ray and Fred Menzel; her sisters, Ruth Menzel, Grace Fincham and Pearl Tett, and her husband, Frank.

She leaves to mourn her daughter, Darlene Allen and huband Wiliam Allen, her grandsons, Randy Allen of Des Moines, John Allen and wife Linda of Ankeny and a great granddaughter, Lisa Marie Allen.

She had been seriously ill in the Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines for 2 1/2 months.

She will be greatly missed by her many friends and relatives. She was a very loving and generous person with all who knew her.