Anna Lee [Dykes] Nickell 1919-2011

DYKES, NICKELL, STARK, LEMASTER, HUNTER, MARTIN, BONELLI, SHEEHAN

Posted By: Curtis (email)
Date: 3/24/2011 at 12:02:45

DEATH NOTICE:

(The Leon Journal-Reporter Leon, Iowa March 16, 2011)

NICKELL, ANNA LEE, 91, of Lineville, Iowa, died on Monday, March 7, 2011, at the Harrison County Community Hospital in Bethany, Missouri. Funeral Services were held at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, March 11, 2011, at the Greenlee-Middleton Funeral Chapel in Lineville, Iowa, with Pastors Max Carmichael and Ron Helton officiating. burial was in the Evergreen Cemetery in Lineville.

Obituary -

(The Leon Journal-Reporter Leon, Iowa March 16, 2011)

ANNA LEE NICKELL ... Anna Lee Nickell, daughter of Arthur Adel and Flora Jane [Stark] Dykes, was born in Mercer County, Missouri, on June 27, 1919, and passed away on March 7, 2011, at the Harrison County Community Hospital in Bethany, Missouri, at the age of 91 years.

Anna Lee was united in marriage to James Wesley "Bummer" Nickell on July 3, 1935. Wesley preceded her in death on October 7, 2001. She was also preceded in death by her parents; a daughter Frankie Lemaster; a grandson, Paul Wesley Hunter; and by a great-grandson, Jeremy Martin. She is survived by her daughter, June Hunter (and son-in-law, J.H.) of Grant City, Missouri; her son, Don Nickell of Salem, Virginia; six grandchildren, Kay Bonelli (and her husband, George), Ron, Tim and Kathy Martin, Theresa Hunter, and Brandon Hunter (and his wife, Sheri); eight great grandchildren, Micah Sheehan, Jennie, Preston, Ryan, and Sheena Martin, Tina Miller, Jaron James and Jediah Michael Hunter; and by several great, great-grandchildren.

Anna Lee lived most of her life in the Lineville, Iowa, and Mercer, Missouri, Communities, except for five years when she and Wesley resided in Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa. She worked at several jobs outside of the home including Perkins Grocery and later Places Grocery store in South Lineville, Missouri, the Lineville School, Martin's Town and Country in Mercer, and the Axtell Hospital in Princeton, Missouri, to name a few. She enjoyed her work and loved working with people.

Anna Lee moved from Lineville to the Oakwood Terrace Apartments in Princeton in 2001, and has been a resident of Pearl's II Eden for Elders in Princeton for the past four years. She was a member of the Baptist Church.