Jennie (Pals) PEIL

PEIL, PALS, ALBERS, KUHLERS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/7/2007 at 12:02:23

March 2, 2004

Jennie Peil, 99, of Meservey, died on Sunday, February 29, 2004, at the Franklin General Hospital, Hampton. Visitation will be held on Thursday, March 4, from 5-8:00 p.m., at the Dugger-Ewing Funeral Home in Belmond. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m., on Friday, March 5, at the Immanuel Reformed Church, with Rev. Rob Ford officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Shirley Kuhlers will accompany a men's quartet. Pall-bearers will be David Kuhlers, Dennis Kuhlers, Darwin Kuhlers, Dana Kuhlers, Diane Denadel and Dawn Goenner.

Jennie, the daughter of George D. and Carrie (Albers) Pals, was born in Franklin County on April 12, 1904. She was baptized in the Reformed Church. She attended rural school through the eighth grade and then worked on the family farm. On February 12, 1942, she married Edd H. Peil in the Immanuel Reformed Church Parsonage. She and her husband continued to farm. Jennie later raised many chickens and became known as the "egg lady" in Belmond and the surrounding area. She was a natural caregiver. Her niece, Beverly Kuhlers, was raised in her home. She cared for her parents, her brother-in-law and her husband. She lived nearly all of her 99 years on the same farm where she was born. She spent the last two months in Latimer at her niece's home.

She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; adopted brother, Raymond and his wife, Gertrude; a brother in childhood; three infant brothers; and Beverly's husband, Harry. She is survived by her niece, Beverly; the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Beverly and Harry; and also by nieces and nephews of her husband, Edd.

©Belmond Independent 2004