Emma H Neville 1911-1996

NEVILLE MACHLER OTTERPOHL

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 5/4/2011 at 22:20:16

20 March 1996

Danbury, Iowa—Emma H. Neville, 84, of Danbury died Monday, March 18, 1996, at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the United Methodist church in Danbury with the Rev. Sheryl Ashley officiating. Burial will be in Liston Township Cemetery at Danbury. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today, with a prayer service at 7 p.m., at the Armstrong Funeral Home in Mapleton.

Mrs. Neville was born March 20, 1911 in Buffalo County, near Gann Valley, S.D., the daughter of John and Agnes (Machler) Otterpohl. She married Floyd Neville Sept. 10, 1931, in Mitchell, S.D. They farmed in the Odebolt area until 1937, when they moved to a farm near Holstein. In 1951 they moved to a farm near Danbury. They retired in 1968 and moved into Danbury. He died Oct. 5, 1987.

Mrs. Neville was a member of the United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women and Dorcas Circle.

Survivors include two sons, Chester and Lloyd, both of Danbury; two daughters, Hazel Riecks of Danbury and Donna and her husband, David Forbes of Ida Grove; nine grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren, and three sisters, Grace, Martha And Hazel Otterpohl, all of Kimball, S.D.

She was preceded in death by two grandsons; two great-grandsons; five brothers, two sons-in-law and one daughter-in-law.